Shetland Pride

Shetland Pride The Official Shetland Pride Welcome to Shetland Pride! The most northerly Pride Festival in the UK!

After our hugely successful First Shetland Pride Festival, we will be hosting our second Shetland Pride on Saturday, 1st July 2023 to celebrate LGBTQ Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity. Along with 27 other Pride Festivals in Scotland, it was high time Shetland held our own permanent annual dedicated Pride Parade, Pride Village and a huge Evening Party! We're not only inviting folk from our local co

mmunity on Shetland, but we invite folk from the Scottish mainland, the rest of the UK, and also LGBTQ folk and groups from overseas! Regardless whether you're LGBTQ or not, please join our Facebook and help support Shetland Pride and make the beautiful Shetland Islands and Shetland Pride your destination!

25/08/2026

💬 Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances tonights Monthly meet-up has had to be cancelled.

We apologise for the last minute inconvenience and hope to see you next month 🌈

🌈MID-WEEKLY MEETUP🌈Our monthly meet-up will be taking place on Tuesday the 25th of August next week at Fjarå as usual 🍽️...
20/08/2026

🌈MID-WEEKLY MEETUP🌈

Our monthly meet-up will be taking place on Tuesday the 25th of August next week at Fjarå as usual 🍽️🌊

Come along, and find us at our booked table in Fjarå's side room.
As always we hope to see you there! All are welcome! 💙🏳️‍🌈 See less

🌈MID-WEEKLY MEETUP🌈Our next monthly mid-week meetup is this coming TUESDAY✨ Going forward, we cannot guarantee the same ...
24/07/2026

🌈MID-WEEKLY MEETUP🌈

Our next monthly mid-week meetup is this coming TUESDAY✨

Going forward, we cannot guarantee the same day of the week for each monthly meet-up as our committee balances our availability, but our meet-ups shall continue to be on the last week of the month.

💭We'd love to here from you which days of the week work best for yourselves! 📅

Come along, and find us at our booked table in Fjarå's side room.
As always we hope to see you there! All are welcome! 💙🏳️‍🌈

🌈MID-WEEKLY MEETUP🌈Our monthly midweek meet-ups will continue to be hosted on the last Thursday of the month, at Fjåra🍽️...
22/06/2026

🌈MID-WEEKLY MEETUP🌈

Our monthly midweek meet-ups will continue to be hosted on the last Thursday of the month, at Fjåra🍽️

Our first meet-up since Pride is this Thursday! ✨

Come along, and find us at our booked table in the side room.
We'll have some of Fjåra's delicious light bites ready and waiting for you to snack on😋
Hope to see you there! All are welcome! 💙🏳️‍🌈 See less

And that is a wrap on Shetland Pride 2026! Thank you again to everyone who came, supported us, or volunteered their time...
14/06/2026

And that is a wrap on Shetland Pride 2026!

Thank you again to everyone who came, supported us, or volunteered their time during the day. We will be drawing the raffle soon so will be in touch about prizes!

Thank you to all our wonderful performers and bands, the evening parties were absolutely incredible. Especially the surprise 🔥

Once again, it truly feels every year Pride becomes more and more important as we face a rise in homophobia and attacks on the trans community. Shetland Pride will always stand up for and support trans people. It is LGBT+ for a reason.

Pride began as a protest and a riot, and we will continue to march, stand up and show people there is an LGBTQIA+ community in Shetland and we are not going anywhere.

For now, we are going to rest and recuperate after a tremendous weekend! But we will see you all very soon.

Love, The Shetland Pride Committee

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

13/06/2026

If anyone left a phone at the Pride Village today we have one that’s in lost and found. Feel free to message with what type of phone it is and what cover and we’ll see if it matches the one we have!

12/06/2026

Thank you to Shetland Times for coming along and filming us at our Pride Pop-up Shop earlier this week to talk about why Pride is so important to Shetland! 🌈

We are all set up and ready to go, thank you to everyone who gave their time to help us today, and thank you in advance ...
12/06/2026

We are all set up and ready to go, thank you to everyone who gave their time to help us today, and thank you in advance for everyone who is coming out tomorrow!

I wanted to take a moment before Pride itself to reflect on a question we get asked all the time: Why do we need Pride?

Honestly, it feels like we need it more than ever before. Year on year, the hatred in online comments gets worse, to the point that news websites need to limit commenting altogether. Hostility and attacks on our community are becoming more commonplace. I have a thick skin when it comes to homophobia, but not everyone does, and I hate thinking that people are reading that thinking that hatred lies within their own community.

Rights that many people assumed were secure are being questioned, and conversations that should be about dignity and respect are too often filled with hostility.

In newly formed Reform councils in England after the election in May a number of anti-LGBTQIA+ measures have been enacted. It's been mandated in some places that muncipal buildings can no longer fly Pride flags. Thankfully that isn't the case here, and we are always so pleased to see the Pride flag on display on the Town Hall. In other places libraries have been told to remove Pride-themed book displays, and there have been funding and sponsorship cuts from Pride events.

It all feels like we're moving backwards instead of forwards.

That's exactly why Pride is so important. Pride is about visibility. It's about community. It's about reminding LGBTQIA+ people in Shetland that they are not alone.

It's for the teenager who's still figuring things out. It's for the person who isn't out yet. It's for the people who have spent years hiding parts of themselves. It's for those of us who have found our place and want to help others find theirs too. Not only that, it's also for all the people who came before us, who couldn't be out and proud like we are now.

And it's for our allies, whose support means more than you know.

We call it a parade, but Pride is and will always be a protest. It's a statement that LGBTQIA+ people belong here. We've always been here, and we'll continue to be here.

If you've never been to Pride before, we'd love to see you. Come along, bring your friends, bring your family, and help us show what kind of community Shetland can be. Come and watch the march (it'll be hard to miss), or come to the Pride village and play some games!

Because when the world feels increasingly divided, choosing kindness, acceptance and solidarity matters more than ever.

See you tomorrow. 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Love,

Sarah and the rest of the Pride Committee ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Unfortunately Toadfish have had to pull out of playing at our Evening Party in Sound Hall due to illness, and we wish th...
11/06/2026

Unfortunately Toadfish have had to pull out of playing at our Evening Party in Sound Hall due to illness, and we wish them a speedy recovery.

But never leat, we still have the wonderful Elastic Rain and DJ Yetti to entertain us and keep the dancefloor full!

Not to mention Rujazzle, Skinny Minnie, Lily Minogue, Victoria Pier, AND Magenta (who are all on the boat)!

🌈 It's going to be an incredible night! 🌈

Tickets are still available: https://tinyurl.com/4tpczunp

Today is your last chance to get bits from our pop-up shop before the parade on Saturday! 🌈🏳️‍🌈From T-shirts, to facepai...
11/06/2026

Today is your last chance to get bits from our pop-up shop before the parade on Saturday! 🌈🏳️‍🌈

From T-shirts, to facepaint and badges.
We also have some brand new Shetland Pride mugs and coasters ☕️

We're here at the Isleburgh, open until 9pm. Come by and say hi!

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