Celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride month June 2025
Pride Month is an annual celebration in June that honours the LGBTQ+ community, acknowledging identity, achievements, and contributions to society. It's a time to celebrate, reflect on progress made, and advocate for rights and equality.
Pride Events this June
Poole Pride 2025 - Saturday 7 June - At the Lighthouse, Poole.
Poole Pride is a joyful celebration of the beautiful identities of our LGBTQ+ community. Come as you are and embrace a full day and night of inclusive entertainment. By day, there’s a family friendly festival of LGBTQ+ creativity, with talks, crafts and workshops, live comedy, cabaret and music. Explore an array of stands and meet with local organisations supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. In the evening, stand-up comedian Chloe Petts – “one of our most compelling young comics” (The Guardian) – gives us an insightful and humorous take on gender and sexuality in the Theatre. This will open the evening to drag artists and an afterparty silent disco.
Everyone is welcome at Poole Pride, a joyous LGBTQ+ festival filled with vibrant events for all ages.
Bourne Free Bournemouth Pride 2025 - 11 & 12 July 2025
Meyrick Park, Bournemouth, BH2 6LJ.
Everyone is always welcome. Friday is a free event, although you will still need to ‘book’ a ticket. The Saturday is a paid for ticketed event and covers 10 hours of entertainment.
Space Youth Project - at Bournemouth and Poole College
Space support young people who are or may be LGBT+ and empower them to have positive self-esteem, to know they are supported, to have a sense of community and to overcome issues caused or intensified by prejudice in order to facilitate freedom of expression. Space now have seven regular, free youth groups across Dorset which are open to any lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or questioning (LGBT+) young person under the age of 25!
Poole Group
A FREE drop in session in Poole runs every 1st and 3rd Thursday during term times, 6:30 - 8:30pm at: The Hub, Bournemouth and Poole College, Poole Campus, Poole, Dorset, BH14 0LS.
Bournemouth Group
A FREE drop in session in Bournemouth runs every 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 6 - 9pm, at: We are With You, R Hub, 1a. Station Approach, Boscombe, Bournemouth BH1 4NB.
