United Kingdom
Pride Events
- Blackpool Pride
- Birmingham Pride
- Oxford Pride
- Pride Torbay
- Suffolk Pride
- Sheffield Pride
- Swansea Pride
- Northern Pride
- Huddersfield Pink Picnic
- Belfast Pride
- Nottingham Pride
- Leeds Pride
- Pride in Brighton & Hove
- Telford Pride
- Stoke Pride
- Swindon & Wiltshire Pride
- Doncaster Pride
- Lincoln Pride
- Pink Festival Cambridge
- Cornwall Pride
- Manchester Pride
- Cardiff-Wales LGBT Mardi Gras
- Reading Pride
- Middlesbrough SuperGay
- Worcester Pride
- Exeter Pride
- Kidderminster Pride
- Wakefield Pride
- Leicester Pride
- Pride Glasgow
- Thanet Pride
- Pride Scotia
- Derby Pride
- Liverpool Pride
- Pride Bristol
- Barnsley Pride
- Essex Pride
- UK Black Pride
- Sparkle UK Transgender Celebration
- Bradford Pride
- Bournemouth Pride
- Grimsby Pride
- Pride London
- North Wales Mardi Gras
- Glastonbury Pride cancelled
- Hull Pride
- Dorchester Love Parade
- Norwich Pride
- Foyle Pride
- Gloucestershire Pride
Events
- GFest - Gaywise LGBT Arts Festival 2008
- Sexual Orientation Equality, Human Rights and Our Shared Future Conference
- Critical Sexology Seminar 'International Approaches to Bisexuality'
- GLP September - Circa Drinks Party
- GLP August - Circa Drinks Party
- GLP JULY - Circa Drinks party
- Faith and homophobia conference: securing legal protection and managing conflicts
- Protest at the Russian consulate, Edinburgh
Articles and news
- Scotland allows same-sex adoption (11/12/2006)
- Equality win for trans woman (28/04/2006)
- Civil Partnership Act comes into force in the UK (05/12/2005)
Resources
- The Pansy Project
- Different Families - The experiences of children with lesbian and gay parents
- Women’s Experience of Homophobia and Transphobia Survey Report
- Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people
- Equality Human Rights Commission Reports and Research
- Everyone IN; Working towards equality for minority ethnic LGBT people
- Religion and belief and sexual orientation. How to manage relations in the workplace’
- LGBT youth Charter of Rights
International human rights documents:
United Kingdom has not yet signed Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. United Kingdom was a signatory to the 2007 UN Declaration on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
Criminal law:
Consenting same-sex sexual acts are legal.
The age of consent is equal for all sexual acts, with the exception of Gibraltar.
Anti-discrimination:
Discrimination on the basis on sexual orientation is prohibited in areas of social security, health care, social advantages, education, good and services and housing.
In Gibraltar discrimination on the basis on sexual orientation is prohibited only in employment.
Partnership recognition:
In United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Nothern Ireland) same-sex couples are able to enter into a registered partnership. It also provides registered cohabiting same-sex couples with a set of limited rights.
The UK civil partnership law does not apply to Gibratar, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey.
Parenting rights:
Same-sex couples are eligible to jointly apply for a child adoption and each other’s biological children.
Medically assisted insemination is available to lesbian couples.
The UK legislation on these issues does not apply to Gibratar, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey.
Law on hate and violence:
Sexual orientation and gender identity (only in Scotland) is included in the law on hate and violence, and is recognised as aggravating factor.
The UK legislation on law on hate and violence does not apply to Gibratar, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey.
