Leeds Pride

• 1: Home
• 2: Parade
• 3: Events Calendar
• 4: Accessibility
  • 4.1: Parade Accessibility
  • 4.2: Website Accessability
  • 4.3: Venue Accessibility
  • 4.4: Sitemap
  • 4.5: Website Problems
• 5: Sponsors
  • 5.1: Yorkshire MESMAC
  • 5.2: Leeds City Council
  • 5.3: Real Radio
  • 5.4: Absolute Design
  • 5.5: Artsmix
  • 5.6: Shout
  • 5.7: Hyde Park Picture House
  • 5.8: Bar Fibre
  • 5.9: British Transport Police
  • 5.10: The Viaduct
  • 5.11: Bent
  • 5.12: Mission
  • 5.13: Best Kept Secret
  • 5.14: Royal College of Nursing
  • 5.15: Homo
  • 5.16: Blayds Bar
  • 5.17: West Yorkshire Police
  • 5.18: Safer Leeds
  • 5.19: The Bridge Inn
  • 5.20: Mr Gay UK
  • 5.21: Queens Court
  • 5.22: Federation
  • 5.23: Steam Complex
  • 5.24: Yorkshire & The Humber TUC
  • 5.25: The New Penny
  • 5.26: Yorkshire Terriers
  • 5.27: Leeds Live it Love it
  • 5.28: Eversheds
  • 5.29: Nice n Naughty
  • 5.30: Xibit
  • 5.31: Urban Hippy
  • 5.32: The Loft
  • 5.33: Pink Paper
  • 5.34: City Dweller
  • 5.35: Irwin Mitchell Solicitors
  • 5.36: Marriott Hotel
  • 5.37: Leeds Sexual Health
  • 5.38: Leeds NHS
• 6: Contact

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A Fanstastic Day!

The Owlies - Voting for the Leeds

Pride Awards

2009 is now closed!! Here are your

top three nominations.....

Top Three Noninations

Venue

• Blayds
• Bridge
• The Viaduct

Manager

• Duncan & Robert (Blayds)
• Jon Bishop
• Stuart (Bridge)

Worker

• Chelsea
• JJon Bishop
• SJulie Elkid (Viaduct)

DJ

• Anna Glypta
• Danny Cher Bailey
• Scott Kelly

Drag act

• Bears Aloud
• Carla Jackson
• Daisy Du Pont

Security staff

• Natalie Sharpe
• Neil (Viaduct)
• Tracey (QCt)

Night

• Back Door Disco
• Campland
• Homo

Group

• MESMAC
• PACT
• T girls

Event

• Campland
• Drag Idol
• Leeds Pride 09

TOP Non Scene Nominations

Organisation

• MESMAC
• Leeds Pride Comittee
• Skyline

Worker

• Mark Thomson
• Scott Gledhill
• Tom Doyle

Individual volunteer

• Flora Renz
• Jon Bishop
• Liquat Ali
• Paul Box
• Tom Doyle

Support service

• MESMAC
• Skyline
• THT

Leeds Pride 2009 - A Fantastic Day

The organisers of Leeds 4th Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Pride are celebrating today after record numbers of revellers turned out to this year's event. Tom Doyle, Chair of the Leeds LGBT Pride planning group said, "It's been a fantastic day, with over 17, 000 people turning out - it has exceeded all of our expectations. The acts were suberb and the weather held out for us too." He added, "An event of this size is made possible through the efforts of almost a hundred volunteers, the expertise of the Leeds City Council's City Centre Events Team and the generosity of our sponsors, especially Real Radio."

The massive crowds were entertained for over 3 hours in Millennium Square by top local and national acts including Jade Ewan, Preston, the Yeah Yous and the fantastic Frankmusik. The unfurling of a 100ft rainbow flag marked the beginning of the centrepiece of the day - a parade through the city centre adding a whole lot of glamour and glitz to Leeds' Sunday streets. Flamboyant floats with themes as diverse as Movies through the Ages to Stiletto Ghetto and more drag queens than you could shake a boa at were joined by thousands of other Leeds LGBT folk, their families, friends and well wishers.

Julie Marshall, who was on a shopping trip for the day said "We didn't know that it was Leeds Gay Pride today, I'm visiting from the Midlands, I have to say it was a lovely surprise and loads of fun. We followed the parade and had a few hours at the party at the end. We had such fun that I'm definitely putting it in my diary for next year."

For those of you wanting to join in the fun, next year's celebration of everything Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans in Leeds in on Yorkshire Day, Sunday August 1st 2010.

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