Free Pride

▽ Free Pride is a radical, inclusive pride event celebrating LGBTQ culture + our history 🌈

Free Pride Statement on The National Lottery Community Fund:

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

We're fundraising for Free Pride 2021! We have lots of exciting plans and we need your help to make them happen. We know it's a hard time for a lot of people just now, so if you can't donate, a share is just as helpful 🌈💓

https://t.co/xpx2JJH8Yd

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

We’re sorry to the members of our community who will be disappointed by this. We’ll be organising a smaller get together for later in the summer & will share details soon, but wanted to keep you updated. You can read our full complaint at the link in our bio.

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

A lot of you have been in touch about what’s happening with Free Pride this year & we are sorry we’ve been so quiet! Here's a thread to update you on what has been going on & what we'll be doing this year:

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

We have returned our funding to The National Lottery and have sent a letter of complaint to the CEO and Scotland Director, asking them to reverse their decision to fund the LGB alliance. This does mean that we cannot run Free Pride at its usual scale this year.

[Dr Francis Osis @f_osis]

Next Tuesday at 5:30 for #LGBTHM we're running "Arts, Crafts & HIV"! Hear about our work @sxscotland @WaverleyCare , the importance of arts in #HIV history, and event get a chance to make your own zine!

https://t.co/AMBRMy8YXV

[Baile Hoose @BaileHoose]

MASSIVE THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE DONATED.
This will make a massive difference to our fight!

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

This event from @hysteriaABDN looks great- check it out below!

[hysteria aberdeen @hysteriaABDN]

This free online workshop is a safe space exclusively for trans and non-binary folk. Register for a space here https://t.co/qzj2nbdKj4

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

happy publication day to @HJosephineGiles, who we were so lucky to have on our trans and nonbinary writers panel at our event this year. we are so excited to read what looks like a truly incredible piece of work 💫

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

!! A chance to catch up on Umbrella Lane’s brilliant talk on the history of Scottish LGBTQ sex workers- check it out ✨

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

If you attended any of our events this year, we’d love to hear your thoughts- please take a minute to fill out our (very short!) feedback form if you can!

https://t.co/UuwUns3Ddh

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

Free Pride is over for another year! Thank you so much to everyone who was a part of it and made it so brilliant. And an extra big thanks to @TNLComFundScot for making our event possible this year 💕

[Order of Perpetual Indulgence Glasgow Mission @OPIGlasgow]

More from our day at @freepridegla picnic yesterday.

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

Really important points being made at our workshop with @GDA__online about the need for LGBTQ & disability groups to work together

[Tressa Burke @tressaburke]

Solidarity between disability orgs & LGBT+ orgs to support each other say participants at the .@freepridegla workshops. Disabled people need to be visible and disabled LGBT+ people do too which increases #Isolation How can #QueerSpaces be more accessible? #Access #Participation

[Tressa Burke @tressaburke]

Inaccessible spaces for disabled LGBTQIA+ was always the case before the pandemic. #Lockdown and online queer spaces have actually increased participation - say participants at the workshop. Fears that this will regress when things return "to normal" & opportunities disappear

[Tressa Burke @tressaburke]

.@GDA__online excited to be running Workshop at .@freepridegla today after yesterday's rehearsal! "Putting the D in relationships!" will explore how being a disabled person and also being LGBTQIA+ have an impact on relationships, identity and the barriers we face #FreePride2021

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

Some tickets still available for tomorrow’s programme at https://t.co/luij7u3vsM — see you then!

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

We’re live now @ https://t.co/Akf01kLZKW 8-10! DIJA up first 💫

[Free Pride @freepridegla]

AAAAND we’re finished for Saturday! Thank you so much to everyone that came along to our Garden Party and tuned into the live stream. We’ll see you tomorrow for the final day of Free Pride 2021, which starts with ‘Putting the D in Relationships’ at 1PM with @GDA__online 🏳️‍🌈