What is Beautifully Proud?
Beautifully Proud celebrates Weston-super-Mare’s creativity, diversity, and community spirit. Through arts, culture, events, and local initiatives, the community led programme aims to bring people together, celebrate pride, showcase local talent and create opportunities for residents and visitors to enjoy everything the town has to offer.
The project supports a wide range of activities across Weston-super-Mare, helping to promote pride in the town while encouraging participation, wellbeing, and community connection.
In this section, you can find information about upcoming events, projects, partnerships, and opportunities to get involved with Beautifully Proud.
Regular Events Programme
North Somerset LGBTQ+ Forum
67 Meadow Street, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1QL
Pink Hub Club presents: Karaoke at the Midlands hotel
The Midland Hotel (40-42 Knightstone Rd, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 2BD)
The mic is hot, the lights are ON, and the stage is CALLING YOUR NAME! Whether you’re serving powerhouse vocals or chaotic karaoke realness, this is YOUR moment. Grab your crew, warm up those vocal cords, and get ready for a night that’s loud, proud, and unapologetically PINK! Expect iconic performances, questionable song choices, and unforgettable vibes all night long.
5:30pm – 11:00pm
Every Friday in June
The Midland Hotel (40-42 Knightstone Rd, Weston-super-Mare BS23 2BD)
Standalone Events Programme
Raise The Flag
Monday 1st June
Weston-super-Mare Town Council will be raising the Pride Flag in the Italian Gardens to start off Pride Month.
At 1:30pm – on the Italian Gardens (BS23 1)
Emmanuel Church Open Day
Friday 12th June
The team at Emmanuel Church invite you for a coffee and chat during Pride Month. This safe and welcoming space provides a great opportunity to meet others, share experiences and be yourself.
At 2:00pm – At Emmanuel Church, (Oxford Street, BS23 1TN)
LGBT+ Chatty Cafe
Friday 19th June
Join Weston Museum for a friendly, welcoming space run by our wonderful volunteers where people can come together, chat, and feel at ease, whilst enjoying our cafe.
From 10:00am to 12:00pm – At the Weston Museum (BS23 1PR)
Kindness Rocks
Saturday 20th June
Join the team from the NSLGBT Forum & make your own random act of kindness. All of the materials are supplied, all you need is your message of kindness.
From 11:00am to 3:00pm – At the Weston Museum (BS23 1PR)
Queer Tales of Weston
From 23rd – 27th June
Originally created as a walking tour to coincide with Pride 2022, you can now immerse yourself in queer stories of heritage places and everyday spaces with an Audio experience by Tom Marshman.
From 10:00am to 4:00pm – Weston Museum (BS23 1PR)
Walking Commentary
Friday 26th June
After a decade of no exercise (besides child-rearing and reaching for cake) 41 year old poet P Burton-Morgan finds themselves newly single and hungry to return to pre-childbirth levels of fitness.
WsM Pride Parade
Saturday 27th June
WsM Pride officially kicks off with a Pride Parade in Weston-super-Mare. The Parade will begin at 11.15am from Coco’s Bar on the seafront.
From 11:15am – From Coco’s Bar (2b Beach Rd, BS23 1AS)
WsM Pride
Saturday 27th June
From 12:00pm (noon) – Grove Park (BS23 2AE)
Weston-super-Mare Pride 2026 is a free, family-friendly celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and its allies, bringing colour, music and community spirit back to the town.
The day begins with a Pride march through Weston-super-Mare, welcoming everyone who wants to walk in solidarity and celebrate equality. The march then arrives at Grove Park where the main event takes place.
In the park you’ll find a lively programme of live music, performances and speakers on the bandstand, alongside community stalls, local charities, food vendors and activities for all ages. There will also be dedicated spaces designed to make the event welcoming for everyone, including a family area, a quiet/sensory space and welfare support.
Weston Pride is about visibility, inclusion and community. It’s a chance for LGBTQ+ people, friends, families and allies to come together, celebrate who we are, and show that Weston-super-Mare is a place where everyone belongs.
Whether you come for the march, the music, the stalls or simply the atmosphere, everyone is welcome.
All of Them, Dead
Saturday 27th June
All Of Them, Dead is a play about being young, gay and working-class in the middle of nowhere. It’s about the things that go unsaid, it’s about two boys holding hands, it’s about clinging together as the world changes around you. And it’s about meat falling from the sky (no, really).
Drag Bingo
Saturday 27th June
Celebrate pride month with us at our drag bingo event, come and join our fabulous bingo host and expect three easy-going games of bingo, camp sing-a-longs, pop classics and some safe-for-work comedy on the mic! what’s not to love!
Pier Pressure
Saturday 27th June
Pier Pressure is the official Weston Pride after party, presented by Queer by the Pier.
When Pride in the park ends, the party continues at Electric Banana with a brand-new queer club night full of music, energy, and celebration — with allies welcome too.
Pride Market
Sunday 28th June
The Weston Independent Market will host a special Pride edition at the Italian Gardens, featuring some of the South West’s best artisan traders.
From 10:00am – on the Italian Gardens (BS23 1)
