Pride

Image shows Kent staff and students holding Pride banners

Pride 2024

Pride

Pride month is celebrated every June to acknowledge and recognise the accomplishments of the LGBTQIA+ rights movement and our brave LGBTQIA+ advocates. It’s about the people in the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies who have fought and continue to fight for equality and recognised dignity.

Image shows Kent staff preparing to march in Pride

History of Pride

Around the world, June is recognized as LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) Pride Month to commemorate a tipping point in queer human rights history — the Stonewall Riots uprising. Notably led by trans women of colour activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, Stonewall began on 28 June 1969, lasting for 6 days sparked by the years of targeted police harassment at the Stonewall Inn located in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York. 

The first Pride was not a celebration. It was a riot led by queer people of colour. Pride was born out of a struggle. We see you; we celebrate you.  

Medway Pride

Medway Pride takes place on the 17 August 2024 in Rochester, with a week of celebrations and activities leading up to it. Like Pride Canterbury, Medway Pride features the Pride Parade, followed by the Pride Celebrations.

If you would like to join the Medway Pride Parade please email R.S.Lamyman@kent.ac.uk

Intersex Progress Pride Flag
We take Pride in Kent sponsoring Canterbury & Medway Pride, celebrating & giving back to our communities.

University of Kent Pride Planning Group

Pride and your Wellbeing

Pride is a celebration, but can highlight injustice and increased awareness can be challenging. Pride may reinforce awareness of inequality or surface painful memories

You're not alone. It's not your responsibility to fix the world. The people around you all carry responsibility to change behaviour