Newcastle Pride

23/09/2026

🏳️‍🌈✨ Nominate Newcastle Pride for the North East Culture Awards! ✨🏳️‍🌈

Did you join us for this year’s Newcastle Pride celebrations? We’d love your nomination!�The deadline for the North East Culture Awards 2026 is just around the corner, and we’d be incredibly grateful if you would consider nominating Newcastle Pride in the Best Event or Exhibition category.

If Newcastle Pride gave you a moment, memory or experience that stayed with you, please consider sharing it…

🌈 Nominate Newcastle Pride for Best Event or Exhibition here:
https://necultureawards.com/northeastcultureawards2026/en/page/categories

This award celebrates events that capture the imagination, bring people together and make a meaningful contribution to the cultural life of the North East and we’d love you to tell the judges what Newcastle Pride meant to you.

And thank you, as always, for being part of it. 💛

28/08/2026

🌈✨ 1 MONTH SINCE NEWCASTLE PRIDE! ✨🌈

Can you believe it’s been a whole month since Newcastle Pride took over the heart of the city? We want to thank everyone who joined us in bringing this year's theme - CITY OF HOPE, STREETS OF JOY to life!

We wanted to take a moment to shine a spotlight on the amazing artists, volunteers, sponsors, partners, and community members who were able to take part, and make this year's celebration possible. We wanted to ensure that Newcastle Pride was full of Northern Voices, in front of and behind the scenes, to shine a spotlight on the amazing communities we have right here in Newcastle.

We’re so proud to say this year:
💙 120+ Artists were engaged across the festival
🤍 40+ Organisations and Venues partnered with Pride
🩷 23+ Community workshops were hosted for free!

🤩 If you joined us over Pride weekend, we’d love to hear from you - leave us a comment below letting us know your favourite part of the celebrations.

Here’s to an even bigger, louder, and prouder than ever 2027… 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

28/08/2026

🌈✨ 1 MONTH SINCE NEWCASTLE PRIDE! ✨🌈

Can you believe it’s been a whole month since Newcastle Pride took over the heart of the city? We want to thank everyone who joined us in bringing this year’s theme - CITY OF HOPE, STREETS OF JOY to life!

We wanted to take a moment to shine a spotlight on the amazing artists, volunteers, sponsors, partners, and community members who were able to take part, and make this year’s celebration possible. We wanted to ensure that Newcastle Pride was full of Northern Voices, in front of and behind the scenes, to shine a spotlight on the amazing communities we have right here in Newcastle.

We’re so proud to say this year:
💙 120+ Artists were engaged across the festival
🤍 40+ Organisations and Venues partnered with Pride
🩷 23+ Community workshops were hosted for free!

🤩 If you joined us over Pride weekend, we’d love to hear from you - leave us a comment below letting us know your favourite part of the celebrations.

Here’s to an even bigger, louder, and prouder than ever 2027… 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

17/08/2026

I 🖤 REVERSIBLE SEQUINS

As soon as I saw these black and white sequins, I knew I had my look for the Newcastle Pride main stage. It’s Patti, it’s Geordie, AND it’s versatile just like me. PLUS it’s a little homage to a huge inspiration and a fellow San Antonio girl, Selena, who famously made her iconic cow print look with about $2 and an old bra. Sometimes when I’m covered with hot glue burns and my bedsheets are gritty with glitter, I think about incredible artists like her who have created culture out of thin air, and I remember that what we do is magic.

Thank you Newcastle Pride for having me, and Haydn Brown | Q***r Photographer for the stunning photos! There’s nothing I love more than bringing a little Wild West to the North East.

Kisses,
PBR 💋

10/08/2026

The deadline to be entered into our prize draw is tomorrow! Leave us some feedback about this years Newcastle Pride to be in with a chance of winning ⚡️🏳️‍🌈

https://www.research.net/r/newcastlepride

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE OF NEWCASTLE PRIDE 2026🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This year’s theme, City of Hope, Streets of Joy, came to life thanks to every single person who joined us.

Whether you marched, danced, volunteered, performed, fundraised or simply showed up in support of our community, thank you for making Newcastle Pride 2026 so special.

A huge thank you to our incredible sponsors and partners, our amazing volunteers, talented artists and performers, the Curious Arts team, and our Pride Arena delivery partners, Evnt Inspirations.

Together, we created a weekend full of visibility, solidarity, celebration and joy.

🤩 If you joined us over Pride weekend, we’d love to hear from you. Your feedback will help us shape the future of Newcastle Pride.

➡️ Complete our feedback survey by noon on Tuesday 11th August for a chance to win one of 10 bundles of Newcastle Pride merchandise. Just follow this link!: https://www.research.net/r/newcastlepride

Newcastle Pride is delivered by Curious Arts and supported by NE1, The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority, Newcastle City Council, Community Foundation North East and Arts Council England. A big thank you to all our partners, funders and supporters.

06/08/2026

🏳️‍⚧️✨PROTECT THE NORTHERN DOLLS BACK ONLINE! ✨🏳️‍⚧️

After a big Newcastle Pride weekend, we are delighted to say the remaining stock of Protect Northern and Geordie Dolls Shirts are BACK ONLINE! Thanks to the incredible Danny Beard and Bimini for modelling these backstage at the Pride Arena 🩵🤍💖

These shirts aren’t just a stylish way to show your support; they also directly benefit and impact the Northern Trans Community. 100% of the profits made from each sale goes directly into “The T-Pot Fund” which supports Trans+ creatives and organisations across the North East. ✨

Stock is very limited, so be quick to order your very own here: https://ko-fi.com/curiousarts/shop

It is so vital to keep raising the voices of the community, and we want to continue funding their work. 🩵🤍💖

Want us to do a full restock? Comment “Protect the dolls!” below ✨

We’d like to say a huge thank you to the team at Logobear for their support in printing these shirts!

Photos by Haydn Brown Photography

29/07/2026

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE OF NEWCASTLE PRIDE 2026🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This year’s theme, City of Hope, Streets of Joy, came to life thanks to every single person who joined us.

Whether you marched, danced, volunteered, performed, fundraised or simply showed up in support of our community, thank you for making Newcastle Pride 2026 so special.

A huge thank you to our incredible sponsors and partners, our amazing volunteers, talented artists and performers, the Curious Arts team, and our Pride Arena delivery partners, Evnt Inspirations.

Together, we created a weekend full of visibility, solidarity, celebration and joy.

🤩 If you joined us over Pride weekend, we’d love to hear from you. Your feedback will help us shape the future of Newcastle Pride.

➡️ Complete our feedback survey by noon on Tuesday 11th August for a chance to win one of 10 bundles of Newcastle Pride merchandise. Just follow this link!: https://www.research.net/r/newcastlepride

Newcastle Pride is delivered by Curious Arts and supported by NE1, The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority, Newcastle City Council, Community Foundation North East and Arts Council England. A big thank you to all our partners, funders and supporters.

28/07/2026

A message to those who want to divide our city 😡📢

As Geordies, we are so proud of our reputation across the world. Friendly, decent people. Neighbours who regard every stranger as a friend.

When we travel anywhere, it fills us with pride when someone comments on our accent, our football club, our night life. It makes us happy when they say the Toon has such a good soul.

Do you know what we’re not known for? Hatred and division. But that’s what we have seen more and more across comments on our social media pages.

We have just celebrated Pride in Newcastle with thousands bringing colour, love and celebration to the streets of our city centre – and not least a big economic boost for businesses.

Our Cabinet, led by Deputy Leader Cllr Mark Mitchell, were front and centre at the celebrations and early in their administration made the decision to fly the Rainbow flag with pride at the Civic Centre.

The majority were really positive on social media following Pride weekend, but amid the engagement we saw discrimination, bigotry and hate from a small minority. Often those accounts had no connection to our city, our country and many we suspect to be fake accounts.

We see similar comments when we post about support for other minority communities, or when we post anything around housing or waste services.

The usual typical misinformation or discriminatory tropes published by a conspiracy theorist on some other digital platform. Sometimes this misinformation spreads and is perpetuated by larger citizen “journalists”.

The council has no role in housing asylum seekers, we aren’t responsible for hotels, we don’t give our freebies to “boat people”, LGBTQ+ residents are not all weirdos or paedophiles and we’re not going to tear down your England flags.

We won’t shut down legitimate concerns but there is a line. A post about refugee school children helping in the community for example, will never be the place for racist comments or misinformation.

This isn’t censorship. It is about respect, decency and being inclusive.

Every resident deserves to be able to engage with our content and celebrate the warm and friendly place this city is known for, without fearing that the comment section will be full of bigotry and discrimination.

We have long challenged such comments, we delete those that cross the line, and we correct misinformation. Fake accounts will be removed, repeat offenders will be blocked.

Our social media policy is in the comments below but our position is clear. Newcastle is the best city in the world. Geordies are the friendliest people in the land.

We are a city of black and white. Nobody will be made to feel unwelcome 🖤

28/07/2026

🌈Thank You, Newcastle!❤️

What a weekend.

Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate Newcastle Pride 2026. Whether you marched, danced, volunteered, performed, fundraised or cheered from the sidelines, you helped make this year’s festival unforgettable.

Our theme, City of Hope, Streets of Joy, came to life with over 10,000 people in The March, with 3,000+ people joining us in the Pride Arena and an incredible 50,000 people engaging with Newcastle Pride across the programme.

Every moment was a reminder of why Pride matters. It’s a celebration of our community, a protest for equality, and a space where LGBTQIA+ people can be visible and unapologetically themselves.

A huge thank you to our team, artists, performers, volunteers, sponsors, partners, supporters and everyone who made this year’s festival possible. You are the heartbeat of Newcastle Pride.

If you joined us across the weekend - we’d love to hear from you, share your thoughts by completing our feedback form here: We’d love to hear your feedback! https://www.research.net/r/newcastlepride

Here’s to continuing to build a city full of hope, streets full of joy, and a future where everyone can live proudly.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏻

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