This year’s CHANNEL Islands Pride celebrations will see ‘Pride in Sport’ launching for the first time in the islands. Local sports teams, personalities and sporting events will be joining together to help tackle the problem of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in sport, showing support for LGBTQ+ equality and diversity by wearing rainbow laces and rainbow…
For the latest information on Channel Islands Pride please visit www.channelislandspride.org CHANNEL Islands Pride returns to Guernsey this year, on Saturday 8th September. The event, which is sponsored by the Channel Islands Co-Operative Society, is hosted alternately by Guernsey and Jersey, it first took place in Guernsey in September 2016 and was supported by over…
The Channel Islands Equality & Diversity Awards are open for nominations and we want to hear from you. Have you experienced exceptional kindness and respect from colleagues at work? If so, tell us about it. Have you felt your needs were especially considered when being served in a shop, restaurant, office, government department or some…
The Houses of Parliament will be lit up in rainbow colours, to celebrate Pride, the culmination of which is the London Pride parade today 8th July. Approval was given by the Speakers of the Commons and Lords, both of whom are strong supporters of LGBT rights. Lord Fowler, Speaker of the House of Lords said:…
The Jersey Police Force have announced they are part of the National LGBT Police Network and will be taking part in this year’s Pride. Read more here.
Preparations are under way for Channel Islands Pride 2017. This year the event will be on September 9th and will be held in Jersey. Liberate Jersey’s new chair Rachel French has confirmed that the event will have a theme of #IDo. Legislation has only recently been introduced in Jersey to allow same-sex couples to marry.…
February is LGBT History Month. We have a number of events going on locally to celebrate. Maybe you’d like to join us. We’re also celebrating Liberate’s 3 year anniversary on 13th February. We have a couple of coffee sessions at Le Petit Cafe. Our Big Fat Quiz of the Queer is sold out. We have…
Channels Islands Pride week has come to an end with a big celebration event in St Helier Jersey this weekend. ITV News has reported that an estimated 5,000 people took to the streets of St Helier for the event. The weather was kinder to us than it was last weekend for the Guernsey Pride event.…
There has been some very positive media coverage following CI Pride in Guernsey on Saturday. Rainbow flag wending its way through Town Church Square, St Peter Port. Credit: Mary-D Carberry The Guernsey Press reported that the event drew thousands into St Peter Port. Ellie Jones, Vice Chair of Liberate is quoted as saying ‘It couldn’t…
We want to say a massive THANKYOU to everyone who came along yesterday (despite the rain) and helped make Guernsey’s first ever Pride such a success! Hundreds of people braved the rain to parade through St Peter Port The day started at 2pm in Candie Gardens with people assembling to listen to music, meet each…