Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Swansea for their special event Swansea Pride. | ||
| 16 May 2026 10:00 to 22:00 | Swansea Pride Wind Street to The Guildhall Swansea, West Glamorgan SA1 4PE |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Birmingham for their special event Birmingham Pride. | ||
| 23 May 2026 from 12:00 to 24 May 2026 23:59 | Birmingham Pride Birmingham Gay Village, Hurst Street Birmingham, West Midlands B5 6RG |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Lisbon for their special event Lisbon Bear Pride. | ||
| 24 May 2026 from 13:00 to 28 May 2026 23:59 | Lisbon Bear Pride Villa 3 Caparica, Bar TR3S Lisboa, Finalmente Club and Various Locations Lisbon, Portugal |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Dallas for their special event Dallas Pride - Festival of Rainbows. | ||
| 06 Jun 2026 11:00 to 23:59 | Dallas Pride - Festival of Rainbows Main Street Garden Park, Pacific Plaza, Harwood Park and Pegasus Plaza Dallas, Texas, USA |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Torquay for their special event Torbay Pride. | ||
| 13 Jun 2026 from 12:00 to 14 Jun 2026 21:30 | Torbay Pride Princess Gardens, Torbay Road to Tore Abbey Meadows, Torbay Road Torquay, Devon TQ2 6DP |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Dublin for their special event Dublin Pride Festival. | ||
| 24 Jun 2026 until 28 Jun 2026 | Dublin Pride Festival O'Connell Street to Merrion Square, Meeting House Square and National Museum at Collins Barracks Dublin, Ireland |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to San Francisco for their special event San Francisco Pride. | ||
| 27 Jun 2026 and 28 Jun 2026 | San Francisco Pride Civic Center Plaza San Francisco, California, USA |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to London for their special event Pride in London. | ||
| 04 Jul 2026 10:00 to 23:59 | Pride in London Central London London W1K 1QR |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Plymouth for their special event Plymouth Pride. | ||
| 11 Jul 2026 11:00 to 20:00 | Plymouth Pride Plymouth Hoe Plymouth, Devon PL1 2PA |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Glasgow for their special event Glasgow Pride. | ||
| 18 Jul 2026 from 11:00 to 19 Jul 2026 23:59 | Glasgow Pride City Centre Glasgow G2 1DY |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Newcastle for their special event Newcastle Pride. | ||
| 25 Jul 2026 from 12:00 to 26 Jul 2026 23:00 | Newcastle Pride Times Square and City Centre Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 4AD |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Amsterdam for their special event World Pride Amsterdam. | ||
| 25 Jul 2026 until 08 Aug 2026 | World Pride Amsterdam Prinsengracht and Various Locations Amsterdam, The Netherlands |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Prague for their special event Prague Pride Festival. | ||
| 03 Aug 2026 until 09 Aug 2026 | Prague Pride Festival Stvanice Island, Holesovice Prague, Czechia |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Edinburgh for their special event Edinburgh Pride. | ||
| 20 Jun 2026 11:00 to 23:30 | Edinburgh Pride Bristo Square Edinburgh EH8 9AJ |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Southampton for their special event Southampton Pride. | ||
| 29 Aug 2026 from 11:00 to 30 Aug 2026 23:00 | Southampton Pride Guildhall Square and West Marlands Road Southampton, Hampshire SO14 7DU |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
Every week until the end of August we will be highlighting a city in the UK or around the world that is celebrating Pride. This week we travel to Manchester for their special event Manchester Pride. | ||
| 28 Aug 2026 from 12:00 to 31 Aug 2026 20:00 | Manchester Pride Gay Village and Sackville Gardens Manchester, Lancashire M1 3LD |  |
| Click the event title, logo or here for more information about the event. 🌈 Don't forget, OutUK has the most comprehensive and accurate guide to UK Pride celebrations throughout 2026. | ||
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OutUK correspondent Adrian Gillan explores Wales' revitalised yet oft-neglected second city, Swansea - plus the beautiful and varied Pembrokeshire peninsula, just due west.
Wales' "city by the sea", Swansea, has a sizeable scene full of Welsh student studs and stunners; and is mere minutes from some of the UK's finest coastline on the gorgeous Pembrokeshire peninsula. SightsSwansea is a modern, vibrant and compact city, boasting castle ruins, a picturesque marina, the state-of-the-art National Waterfront Museum, the Dylan Thomas Centre celebrating Wales' most famous literary son, theatres galore (Grand Theatre, Dylan Thomas Theatre) and welcoming Café Quarter. | |
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It also offers some of the sexiest, most unspoilt men in the British Isles. Be sure to check out their
smouldering eyes, lilting tongues and jaws to well-nigh die upon!
A true area of outstanding natural beauty! |
Castle Square. © Crown copyright(2011) Visit Wales
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SceneThe Swansea scene may have lost a few venues recently, but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and the fit survivors all lie conveniently close to each other, smack-bang in the centre. Traditional stalwart, The Kings Arms in the High Street, is still as popular and friendly a community-led pub as ever - with regular bingo, karaoke and the like.Pride | |
Behind people on the Swansea Pride March Photo: Beynonlv CC0 via Wikimedia Commons |
Swansea has a proud reputation for staging an annual Swansea Pride every year.
Most of the events take place in and around The Guildhall in the city centre, from 10am to 10pm. The Pride March and Parade normally starts at 11am
in Wind Street, and travels all around the city along Oxford Street and St. Helen's Road to the Guildhall. The Festival is then in the Guildhall
where there's food and drink as well as traders offering a range of goods and merchandise.
The main stage usually has live entertainment throughout the day. Inside the Brangwyn Hall the Swansea Pride Community Zone, has lots of information stalls from organisations, support services, charities, community groups and some craft traders as well. |
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Stay Swansea's premiere boutique hotel, Morgans in Somerset Place, is located in the beautiful maritime quarter, a short walk from the city centre. A grade 2-listed building, previously home to the port authority responsible for administrating Swansea's thriving seaborne trade, it is now a stylish and characterful 5-star hotel - including neighbouring Morgans Townhouse accommodation. Fab bar and eatery too - a winning combination of old and new! Purely PembrokeshireThe Pembrokeshire peninsula - little more than an hour's drive due west of Swansea, jutting out towards the Atlantic Ocean and Ireland - contains Pembrokeshire National Park, which is the only one of Britain's 14 National Parks to be almost fully coastal.It's renowned for its rocky coastline, a National Trail footpath, plus pristine headlands and beaches. You can also enjoy picturesque towns and villages like true-gem Tenby or lovely little Saundersfoot; more Blue Flag beaches than any other county in Britain; medieval walled settlements, plus heaps of forts and castles, like those at Pembroke or Carew. Lying on the River Alun on St David's Peninsula, Wales' westernmost point, St David's itself is Britain's smallest city in both size and population (1700 people); the final resting place of Saint David, Wales' patron saint; and the 'Christian capital' of Wales, a place of pilgrimage for centuries. Built in the 12th Century on the reputed site of St David's 6th Century monastic settlement, St David's Cathedral boasts a fine wooden roof, extraordinary sloping floor plus wonderfully restored cloisters. And its nearby now-ruinous Bishops Palace still likewise conveys the wealth and power of the medieval church. | |
| Other attractions include the 14th Century Tower Gate, the Celtic Old Cross plus a modern Visitor Centre with art gallery. Whitesands Bay, scarce two or three miles west, is a popular water sports resort, also described as one of the best tourist beaches in Europe. |
Whitesands Bay © Crown copyright(2011) Visit Wales
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Tudor Court Hotel in St David's is a peaceful privately-owned 22-room hotel set in 15 acres of coastal land and
quiet secluded gardens in St David's - with views, due south, over terraced gardens, to the sea beyond. The first building on this site was constructed in 1870 to re-house the long-established
St David's Cathedral School. The hotel boasts an excellent bar-lounge and restaurant, the latter with a top-notch chef and an especially fine line in locally caught fish! It's unique,
quirky - oft tad naughty - mythologically-themed decorative ceramic tiles, gracing many an indoor wall: the life's work of an eccentric and highly imaginative former owner. Enjoy one of several rather dramatic coastal walks right on the doorstep!
Train company GWR runs an hourly service between London Paddington and Swansea, journey time 3 hours. To then explore St.David's, and wider Pembrokeshire, best hire a car. Some other useful websites include: www.visitpembrokeshire.com and www.visitwales.com
Revised May 2025. | |