Bristol Pride announces 2024 summer lineup including Ru Paul’s Drag race stars and 2024 is set to be the biggest year yet!
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00:00 I'm Darren Carter, I'm one of the directors for Bristol Pride and I guess my role is mainly at
00:06 the moment to do all the programming so we're busy with that getting ready for the festival
00:11 this summer. Tell me about Pride this summer then. Yeah so I mean it's just amazing to be back,
00:17 we've got such exciting plans, we'll be running two weeks of activity across the city again so
00:23 we're running from the 29th of June all the way through to the 13th of July and those two weeks
00:29 we'll see events like our circus night, comedy, our dog show, theatre, so many things are going
00:37 on across those two weeks. Why is Pride so important in the city of Bristol?
00:43 It's important everywhere that Pride happens, it's important, it's about
00:51 celebrating community, it's about making connections and bringing people together so
00:57 you know in Bristol we're surrounded by so many areas, you know regions, counties that don't
01:03 necessarily have any LGBT+ spaces or bars or venues so people can feel quite isolated and alone
01:10 so big cities like Pride in Bristol is able to kind of provide a space where people can come
01:17 together, be part of that community, find that connection and build resilience actually you know
01:24 Pride is a great opportunity for us to kind of top up our emotional and social batteries
01:29 because actually it's still really challenging just to be who you want to be and to be an LGBT+
01:36 person even here in Bristol it's really you know still a fight we have to endure you know to be
01:45 ourselves, to live authentically and to just be who we want to be. You know last year our billboard
01:52 for the festival was set alight just within 24 hours of it going up and that's here in Bristol
01:57 and so you know hate and prejudice towards the LGBT+ community still exists and that's why Pride
02:04 is still needed and still so important. So if people want to find out all the information and
02:09 see what's coming up, find out about our events in the two weeks as well as those acts that we'll
02:14 be announcing just head over to our website which is bristolpride.co.uk