Swansea Pride

The tradition & historical record

Swansea Pride is the annual South West Wales LGBTQ festival which is held in Swansea, Wales. ¹

Swansea Pride was founded in 2008 by group of local LGBTQ people who wanted to bring an outdoor Pride event to. The initial committee was comprised entirely by volunteers, with no previous professional event organising experience. Pink in the Park, the first event, took place at Singleton Park on 28 June 2009. The event had a larger than expected attendance and Kelly Llorenna, Scooch, and local entertainers performed. The festival was also used as a way to raise money and awareness for the HIV and AIDS charity, Terrence Higgins Trust. Following the second Swansea Pride event in 2010, the event's volunteers decided to constitute as a registered charity. The decision to become a charity was made to publicly demonstrate that Swansea Pride is a not-for-profit event run by volunteers for the benefit of the local LGBT community, their friends and families. In 2013 the charity changed its name to Spectrum South West Wales while keeping the name Swansea Pride exclusively for the event. The reason for the name change was to allow the charity to undertake other events and activities for and on behalf of the local LGBT community. ¹

The seventh annual event, Swansea Pride 2015, was cancelled on 14 April 2015. Financial difficulties and a lack of volunteers were cited as the reasons the event was cancelled. On Friday 19 June 2015 a public meeting was held at the charity's office where a public vote decided to start planning and preparation for a Swansea Pride event in 2016. A new contingent of volunteers were recruited to the event Organising Committee & its constituent sub-committees. Historically, the event was held on the last Saturday in June each year. However, since the relaunch of London Pride the decision was made to move to another date. ¹

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Swansea Pride”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. ¹

Swansea Pride is the annual South West Wales LGBT festival, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. ²

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