Civil Service Pride season starts now

50 years ago this month, a riot at a bar in New York — the Stonewall Inn — sparked a LGBT rights movement, and kickstarted annual pride protests around the world. This year, we’re once again taking part in pride events across the UK — and celebrating this important milestone.

Take part in Prides across the UK

We’ve secured funding to take part in 6 pride events across the UK, organised by us at the Civil Service LGBT+ Network. They are:

Edinburgh: 22 June 2019
London: 6 July 2019 (Currently full)
Newcastle: 20 July
Belfast: 3 August 2019
Cardiff: 24 August 2019 2019
Preston: 28 September 2019

Some departmental networks are also organising attendance at other pride events, including:

Liverpool: 27 July 2019

You can register to attend these events by completing our registration form. All events, except Pride in London, still have spaces and registrations are open until 2 weeks prior to each event.

If you’re organising a walking group at a Pride event, and it isn’t listed above, please contact us and we’ll be happy to add it to our website.

T-shirts, banners and placards

If you are joining us at one of the events listed above, we will be able to provide you with a Civil Service Pride t-shirt, free of charge. We will email you to ask for your size and your address around 2 weeks before the event.

We will also be able to loan banners and placards to you if you’re organising a walking group at these locations or elsewhere. Just get in touch.

An inclusive place to work

For Pride this year, we’re reminding everyone why the Civil Service is an inclusive place to work.

This Pride season, we want you to share your story. Write a blog post for us, and tell us what an inclusive Civil Service looks like to you.

Send your blog post and a picture of yourself to us at info@civilservice.lgbt. We’ll post as many as we can over the next few weeks.