UK Black Pride would like to encourage those who care about Black lives to delete their black squares and post useful, helpful, uplifting and empowering information and images that further the
#BlackLivesMatter
cause.
We stand with Caster Semenya and Black women everywhere whose bodies and womanhood are violated and policed.
Despite the racism, sexism and misogynoir we’re subjected to daily, we are powerful, beautiful and we will not be contained ✊🏾♥️🏃🏿♀️
Social media is a vital tool in the fight for equality, and a feed full of black squares does not let us know that you stand in solidarity with us. It is a silence and an erasure that we cannot afford.
An important thread from
@alxndrleon
ahead of this year’s UK Black Pride. And the
@MNEK
gifs are perfect seeing as he’s HEADLINING. See you there ✊🏾🏳️🌈❤️
So you're a white ally wanting to come to
@ukblackpride
this Sunday - you are welcome! While this event isn't for you, you can absolutely be a part of it. Here's some top tips on how to approach the experience in a respectful and supportive way. (ft.
@MNEK
gifs because I want to)
We stand with
@MunroeBergdorf
and Black women everywhere who continue to be subject to gross mistreatment and double standards.
To the spineless leadership
@NSPCC
, remove the rainbow from your branding. You’ve quite the journey ahead to prove your worthy of flying our flag.
Beautiful things happen WHEN WE RISE. Special shoutout to all of our dedicated team, from the core team who have worked on this for a year to the fantastic day volunteers. ❤️
For our allies, there are many conversations you all need to have with each other. Please continue to share information, educate each other and donate to causes that directly support Black people and protests.
#BlackOutTuesday
is not a day off, pls.
Munroe, we stand by you, by Black trans women around the world and by the communities we represent, today and always.
We are all so emotional and so proud of you, Munroe. ✊🏾❤️🏳️🌈
A reminder that anti-racism is an active choice and exercise. Don’t just say “BLACK LIVES MATTER” online without doing the work or having conversations.
It’s times like this when we notice those around us who continue to see this as an American issue instead of a global one.
To all the women-loving-women,
We celebrate you today and everyday. Know that you are powerful and loved and that our movement for liberation is nothing without you. We are honoured to share this day and this life with you.
♥️ UK Black Pride
#LesbianVisibilityDay
Happy Trans Pride! If you’re out marching today, look out for one another, take up space, express your love and your rage, and remember that our trans and GNC siblings deserve nothing less than absolute autonomy and equality. Now and forever. ✊🏾🏳️⚧️
UK Black Pride was birthed in 2005, when a bus load of Black lesbians travelled to Southend-on-Sea to celebrate themselves and bear witness to each other as Black womxn living and loving at the intersection of racial, gendered and class oppression.
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
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Lady Phyll has been honoured as one of
#100GreatBlackBritons
, and we are so proud. This beautiful photo of
@MsLadyPhyll
, as she watched the UK Black Pride takeover of the big screens at Piccadilly Circus, captures 15 years of her grit, resilience and love. We love you, Phyll.
We stand with our trans siblings and we join
@stonewalluk
in calling for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions to urgently review
@EHRC
and ensure that trans people’s rights are effectively supported.
The EHRC's statements actively stand in the way of improving the rights and lives of trans people. We know this isn't what the majority of people in Britain want. Sign our open letter in support of trans rights 💌
*UK Black Pride 2022 is set to be a 🥵🌞 scorcher 🌞🥵*
Please take the necessary precautions ahead of and during UK Black Pride to keep yourself protected from the sun. We will have plenty of water available for you to fill bottles with and shady places for you to rest.
Today, we honour and celebrate 33 years since
@HackneyAbbott
became the first Black woman elected as a Member of Parliament. She’s now the longest serving Black MP in our history!
UK Black Pride 2021 will take place digitally from Friday, 2 July – Sunday, 4 July. Our theme this year is "Love and Rage", in recognition of our righteous anger and our unyielding capacity for love against the odds.
#byusforus
#loveandrage2021
We have signed a letter calling on His Excellency, The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, to reach out to LGBTQ leaders "to create a pathway for allyship, protection and support."
Our LGBTQ siblings deserve to live free from violence.
#GhanaSupportsEquality
We cannot tackle homo-, bi- and transphobia without tackling racism, misogyny and sexism. Today and every day, we stand in solidarity with LGBTQI people around the world who continue to fight for their happiness, lives and freedom. We will win!
#IDAHOBIT2020
We realise it was an error in judgement to allow the
@ukhomeoffice
a stall at UK Black Pride. Thank you for raising your voices. We will always prioritise the safety and wellbeing of the communities we represent.
We are proud supporters of ALL parts of our communities. We will never stand alongside hateness in any form and certainly not towards our trans*, non-binary and intersex siblings.
Today it’s intersex awareness day. We need to uplift intersex voices and help to END INTERSEX SURGERIES. Children are routinely operated on from a young age to “fix” or “correct” their bodies and make them look “normal”. It’s not conversion therapy, it’s “conversion SURGERY”.
We support all protests that reaffirm the sanctity of Black life, both here and in the US.
Our communities are also disproportionately impacted by
#Covid19
.
You can speak truth to power in a number of ways. Choose that which is best for you.
#BlackLivesMatter
Today is
@MsLadyPhyll
’s birthday 🎉 On this day [redacted] years ago, the world got a lot brighter, and we are so grateful for you, the work you do and the love you give.
Happy birthday, Lady Phyll 😍
“Rejecting my MBE came with a lot of abuse, but the Empire has a toxic legacy. I couldn’t accept something which elevates itself above the people I set out to serve. And, it’s a well known fact that one queen will not bow to another.” 👏🏾👏🏾
@MsLadyPhyll
So many of our trans siblings should still be here enjoying the grand and the mundane of a life lived loved, valued and protected. We honour their lives by committing ourselves to the work of remaking the world as a place where our trans siblings can exist freely.
#TDoR2020
Our communities are full of people who love beyond the structures and strictures of gender, whose desire isn’t neatly explained by any binary and who challenge us all to think and feel more expansively about love, intimacy and connection.
#bivisibilityday
We should all be gravely concerned about the UK’s increase in homophobic violence. Our communities warned about this in our 2021 survey and we take extra care to ensure our events are safe. This act deplorable act of violence did not take place at UK Black Pride, but afterwards.
Breaking: The second homophobic attack in London in the space of a week.
Gay couple Michael and Nat were enjoying Black Pride at the weekend when they were punched several times by a stranger.
Police are treating the incident as homophobic.
We are heartbroken.
We must remember that our work is more than marriage rights, which were never the priority for QTIPOC. Our lives are on the line. We will keep fighting in the name of all those for whom meaningful change didn’t come quickly enough.
The way this country treats our trans siblings is a mark of shame, and we stand with them in fighting against those who would deny them their human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
#TransDayOfVisibility
We’ll be hosting a day of celebrations live streamed, including performances, live DJ sessions and speakers; alongside a series of virtual rooms hosted by our partners within the community.
Join us for our birthday celebrations at
We want to reiterate to our communities that we are committed to being the pride-home for LGBTQ people of colour across the UK and we hope you'll join us on Sunday 16th August to celebrate our 15th birthday.
#comehome
We stand unequivocally with our trans siblings and
@Mermaids_Gender
. The policing of our bodies, our gender, our sexuality, and the denial of our lived experience, our humanity and our agency must stop.
#WeStandWithMermaids
We're marching at Pride in London alongside Imaan LGBTQ, Mermaids and Stonewall to celebrate our community’s diversity and stand together in unity.
We have a limited community spaces available.
If you would like to march with us email: chloe
@ukblackpride
.org.uk to find out more.
UK Black Pride 2020 is postponed 😭, but:
“We don’t stop being LGBTQ POC during
#COVID19
, and so the team and I are working very hard to put forth digital opportunities for our communities to connect, celebrate and challenge inequalities.”
Here it is, everyone.
@DawnButlerBrent
’s exclusive statement for Byline TV on today’s events in Parliament.
She called Boris Johnson a liar and was thrown out for it - but decided it had to be done to highlight the erosion of our democracy.
The countdown begins. Just 30 days until UK Black Pride 2019 — the only pride celebration
#byusforus
.
Sunday 7 July from 12pm at our new home in Haggerston Park.
#WhenWeRise
Black lesbians and lesbians of colour have been foundational to the modern LGBTQ movement.
We will continue to celebrate, remember and fight for the lesbians who make, and have made, our community what it is.
Thank you, queens ✊🏾🏳️🌈🖤
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
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“I am honoured to march alongside a community of people who are working tirelessly to advance the rights of LGBTQ people across the globe. Black and brown people started this movement and we won’t rest until we’re all free.”
@MsLadyPhyll
joins
#WorldPride2019
as a Grand Marshal.
Pls RT: Let’s work together to ensure Black/POC LGBTQ people are visible & heard 365 days of the year, lets tear down the walls of discrimination that touches our lives, call for change so allies that means you too! If you want to get involved email volunteers
@ukblackpride
.org.uk
UK Black Pride would like to make clear that we are in no way affiliated with Pride in London, nor their new fund, and we find their use of our logo opportunistic and misleading.
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It’s official. UK Black Pride’s 2018 festival,
#ShadesoftheDiaspora
, will be held in Vauxhall Park on Sunday 8 July.
To mark the occasion, an open letter from Lady Phyll: “The things that make you ‘other’ to everyone else, make you perfect to us.”
"If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a very serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem and *they* should start thinking about what *they* can do about it.”
We call on
@ukhomeoffice
to cancel the deportation of up to 50 people to Jamaica.
“Deportations are inhumane and discriminatory at any time, but in the middle of a pandemic and during a lockdown, they are a breathtakingly unfeeling act.”
#Jamaica50
Sisters and siblings the world over: We are the descendants of warriors, survivors and activists. Today, & every day, we at UK Black Pride reaffirm our commitment to fighting and celebrating alongside you, in solidarity, unity and for the liberation we so rightly deserve
#IWD2018
UK Black Pride’s inaugural Community Survey aims to fill in the gaps in our understanding of what life is like in the UK for LGBTQI+ Black people and people of colour. Make your voice heard.
TAKE PART:
UK Black Pride’s annual in-person protest and pride celebration returns on Sunday, 14 August, 2022. Our theme this year is “POWER”. Read an open letter from Lady Phyll:
“The United Kingdom’s Gay Liberation Front held the first Gay Pride march in London in 1972. The event was launched in response to the 1969 Stonewall Riots and ran from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park, with around 2,000 people participating.”
👉🏾
“We know personally of Pride in London's disregard and disrespect of Black people and people of colour because of how they've treated UK Black Pride and the volunteers within it. They've treated us with obvious and open contempt.”
'James Baldwin said it took many years of vomiting up the filth that I was taught about myself and halfway believed before I could walk around this earth like I have the right to be here. I have the right, you have the right, we all have the right!' -
@BillyPorter
#BHM
“My heart swells for a generation of queer, Black British youth whose paths will be lit by this glistening age of stars.”
A beautiful and thoughtful piece from
@Otamere
for
@bbcthree
about queer Black British icons, including our very own
@MsLadyPhyll
.
It’s almost time for UK Black Pride 2021 🤗
Three days of performances, conversations and community, broadcast live from an *iconic* venue 😉
Friday, 2 — Sunday, 4 July 🥳
@Nmozz
strikes again with a timeline of Black Pride for
@MetroUK
✊🏾🏳️🌈
🗣 Black womxn receive 84% more abuse than white womxn.
Seyi, from all of us at UK Black Pride, thank you for the work you’re doing to help combat online bullying and harassment.
We stand with you and all victims of bullying and harassment.
This is not okay.
Here's a thread on everything wrong about that
@DailyMirror
article......
1. I never "took to Twitter to complain" someone else (who doesn't follow me) tweeted the clip of Alex mispronouncing my name and tagged me *just* as I left the studio.
“If there was any advice I would have given to my younger self, it would be to not constantly belittle yourself or think you are not good enough or strong enough to be accepted and loved for who you are.” ❤️🏳️🌈
@Gus_JordM
On the third anniversary of
#Pulse
, we’re reminded that Pride is about so much more than celebrating. We must remember those for whom change didn’t come soon enough. We’re not nearly close enough to where we need to be.
Rest in peace. We miss you all so very much. 💔
“To be a better ally, be a better listener. We’ve been shouting about what we need for a long time and people in positions of power aren’t listening. Allyship means you listen and act according to what you’ve been told is needed.”
@MsLadyPhyll
#IDAHOBIT
The
@BFI
Archive is filled with lots of gems. We found this incredible insight into Gay and Lesbian life for Black/Asian people from the 80s. Here’s the link:
For those who can (and want to), coming out can be liberatory. Many of us have felt that. Many have not, and many more are contending with and impacted by a world that demonstrates an uneven understanding of equality, inclusivity and freedom.
#NationalComingOutDay
Ahead of speaking at tonight’s Stonewall rally in NYC,
@MsLadyPhyll
writes on the importance of remembering where this movement started and refocusing our energies on the most marginalised in our communities. ✊🏾🏳️🌈
May we never forget the impact Section 28 had on our communities when it was enacted 32 years ago today. Let us remember that parts of who are can always weaponised by the media and law.
#Repost
@transrightsprotest
・・・
Join us in London on 4th July at 1PM in Parliament Square for a peaceful static protest demanding that the government cease their proposal to rollback vital trans rights!
This amazing artwork was created for us by Amber Renfrey.
We were filming something very exciting for
#UKBlackPride
to kick off Pride month. Released June 7th. We’ll see you at Haggerston Park on July 7th. ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
#WhenWeRise
Free Radical Self-Care Course
8-week LGBTQIA+ Radical Self-Care online training course delivered by experienced LGBTQIA+ mindfulness practitioners.
For more information and to find out how to enrol please contact:
moud
@ukblackpride
.org.uk
Sign up here
A few members of the
#UKBlackPride
team at the Mayors Pride Reception following our team meeting. The mayor mentioned the support he/GLA are giving to UKBP and there was a massive cheer! Sunday, 8 July 2018