Stockport Pride Festival 2019

Join us in Merseyway, where you can colour in our rainbow design outline.

The best will be chosen by the Mayor of Stockport on Sunday. The winning design will receive a family ticket to a film at The Light Cinema Stockport

Stockport Libraries are delighted to welcome L.M. Krier to Stockport Central Library for an author talk and book signing.

Lesley will be sharing the popular Ted Darling crime fiction series and taking a light hearted look at this totally different type of detective. Book 13 in the series is due out in September.
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Join us in the town centre for a day of entertainment, community groups, charities, crafts and food and drink.

Enjoy the selection of singers, dancers and drag queens on The Martyn Hett Stage, sponsored by Pets at Home. And check out the stalls in the Stockport Pride Market Hall, sponsored by Stockport Homes.

You can march with us on the Stockport Pride Parade on Sunday 28th July 2019.

As this year marks 50 years since the start of the modern LGBT+ rights movement in New York, we are asking if you would bring any placards or banners that represent the past 50 years of rights campaigning.
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Stockport Pride family space will be hosted by Proud 2 b Parents. This fun and friendly space will be at Staircase House in Stockport's Historic Market Place. From 12pm to 4pm, there will be soft fun play equipment for under 7 year olds, plus no mess rainbow arts and crafts.

Set in the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners.
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Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online.
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The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights.
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This is the courageous story of the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. He is pressured into attending a conversion therapy programme. While there he begins his journey to finding his own voice and accepting his true self.
Book on The Plaza Stockport website