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Chesil Youth Pride Reports & pics from Chesil Youth Pride at Weymouth College 2023, with a Pride Parade along the Esplanade! We hope it will run again in June 2024! (date tbc) |
A note about Pride events in Weymouth (posted here 25/07/2023)
Chesil Youth Pride - a new Pride event took place in June 2023 at Weymouth College, with a super first for Weymouth - a Pride Parade along the Esplanade! See below for reports and pics.
Pub Pride took place at a Wyke Regis Pub in Weymouth during 2023, and at The Waterloo Pub Weymouth during 2022. See our Dorset Pub Pride page here :- https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/dorset-pub-prides.html
Weymouth & Portland Pride. It has been a dream of many locally for Weymouth to have a Pride event and this first became a reality in 2019. Organised by Jamie and his team from The Closet Bar, it took place in Radipole Park. It is unknown if it will return. See our Weymouth & Portland Pride page here:- https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/weymouth--portland-pride.html
** Dorset enjoyed a record number of Pride events during 2023 - SIX in total! **
Dorset Pride info - https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/pride-events.htm
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Chesil Youth Pride - a new Pride event took place in June 2023 at Weymouth College, with a super first for Weymouth - a Pride Parade along the Esplanade! See below for reports and pics.
Pub Pride took place at a Wyke Regis Pub in Weymouth during 2023, and at The Waterloo Pub Weymouth during 2022. See our Dorset Pub Pride page here :- https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/dorset-pub-prides.html
Weymouth & Portland Pride. It has been a dream of many locally for Weymouth to have a Pride event and this first became a reality in 2019. Organised by Jamie and his team from The Closet Bar, it took place in Radipole Park. It is unknown if it will return. See our Weymouth & Portland Pride page here:- https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/weymouth--portland-pride.html
** Dorset enjoyed a record number of Pride events during 2023 - SIX in total! **
Dorset Pride info - https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/pride-events.htm
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If you like Youth Prides - you might also so like:-
Dorset Youth Pride - at Shire Hall Dorchester - was FAB! Did you go? Did you miss it? Please to say that Dorset Youth Pride will run again in 2024. It ran for the first time in 2022. See our Dorset Youth Pride page here: - https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/dorset-youth-pride.html
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Dorset Youth Pride - at Shire Hall Dorchester - was FAB! Did you go? Did you miss it? Please to say that Dorset Youth Pride will run again in 2024. It ran for the first time in 2022. See our Dorset Youth Pride page here: - https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/dorset-youth-pride.html
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Chesil Youth Pride 2023
New for LGBT+ young people this year (2023) has been Chesil Youth Pride. Organised by staff from Dorset Council and Space Youth Project, with Weymouth College being a great hosting site. This took place on 17th June, a week after the Youth Pride in Dorchester. Like Dorset Youth Pride, this new Pride event was very much focused on providing a fun and supportive day out for young people. Several organisations offering support for today’s LGBT+ youth had stalls there.
The highlight of the day was the FIRST EVER Pride parade along the Prom! - Weymouth’s esplanade. This has been a dream of the local LGBT community for many years, so a HUGE thanks to all at Chesil Youth Pride for making this happen!
Unfortunately, as Weymouth Gay Group (WGG) is a very informal group (our guys like it that way) we could not have an info stall at Chesil Youth Pride as we don’t have public liability insurance – an issue that has cropped up at other events we would like to be embraced by and welcomed at within the local Dorset LGBT community. It would have been brill if two or more of our WGG guys carried our bannor in the Pride Parade. Perhaps next year?
Unfortunately, as Weymouth Gay Group (WGG) is a very informal group (our guys like it that way) we could not have an info stall at Chesil Youth Pride as we don’t have public liability insurance – an issue that has cropped up at other events we would like to be embraced by and welcomed at within the local Dorset LGBT community. It would have been brill if two or more of our WGG guys carried our bannor in the Pride Parade. Perhaps next year?
Chesil Youth Pride - first pics (posted first on our news page 17/06/2023 updated 22/06/2023)
Here are a few pics from today's first Chesil Youth Pride.
(Note we asked all stall holders for permission to take a pic of their stall, saying we would like to use it here)
If you have pics of the day that you (and those in it) are happy to share particularly of the Parade, we would love to post them here. email weymouthgaygroup@gmail.com
You can read a very good Dorset Council report of the day here - https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/2023/06/22/chesil-youth-pride-2023-celebrating-dorsets-lgbtqi-young-people/
You can see a short video of the day here (By Youth in Dorset) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtmucEno7QC/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=Y2Q0NmNiMjc3NQ%3D%3D
(Photo above with thanks to Dorset LGBT+ Voices Forum)
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Please make sure you check out all our other pages, lots of local lgbt events, local lgbt news, helplines and Prides in Dorset info!
This page was last updated 25/07/2023 Weymouth Gay Group 2023
email :- weymouthgaygroup@gmail.com Twitter https://twitter.com/WeymouthGayGrp and some where on facebook too!
LGBT helpline 0800 612 3010 *Confidential non-judgemental support* Run by The Intercom Trust (free from UK mobiles & landlines)
Please make sure you check out all our other pages, lots of local lgbt events, local lgbt news, helplines and Prides in Dorset info!
This page was last updated 25/07/2023 Weymouth Gay Group 2023
email :- weymouthgaygroup@gmail.com Twitter https://twitter.com/WeymouthGayGrp and some where on facebook too!
LGBT helpline 0800 612 3010 *Confidential non-judgemental support* Run by The Intercom Trust (free from UK mobiles & landlines)
