Manchester Pride has today announced that Grammy and Brit Award winner and honorary Mancunian Ariana Grande will return to the city to headline the LGBTQ+ charity’s new event Manchester Pride Live at Mayfield this August Bank Holiday Weekend.
Recent figures show that more than 40 percent of LGBT+ people will experience a significant mental health problem, compared to around 25 percent of the whole population, and are more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide.
Celebrating gay and queer culture, from the poetry of Sappho to the film Moonlight, leading figures will champion the LGBTQ artwork that is special to them.
The BBC today announces Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.
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