Stands and stalls are a key part of the main Festival event on 21st and 22nd July 2012. We want to host as many organisations and businesses as possible.

We are now accepting applications from local businesses and organisations for pitches at this year’s Hull Pride.

If you would like to be there, please submit your application now.

A BIG thank you to all who have supported Hull Pride in 2011!

Here’s to a whole weekend of fun and opportunities in 2012… get it booked in your new diaries: 21st & 22nd July 2012.

Wishing you all a very merry christmas and a happy new year.

The Warren will be hosting a World AIDS Day candlelit vigil on December 1st.

Doors open at 6pm and the vigil will commence at 6.15.

The Warren - 47 – 49 Queens Dock Avenue, Hull, HU10 3DR. Click for map.

Every year, the Hull Pride committee is inundated with requests for a slot to perform on the stage and unfortunately, there just aren’t enough slots for everyone.

So, to celebrate our 10th anniversary in 2011, we held the first ever Pride Starz event.

We held two audition heats, and eventually ten acts were voted through to the grand final and performed in front of our specially assembled team of judges.

Perry Pullman’s incredible Michael Jackson routine was eventually declared as the winning performance and he rocked the Hull Pride stage that summer, sharing the stage with the Vengaboys, Reason 4 and Kelly Llorenna.

Pride Starz was so successful that we’re doing it all over again it 2012 – bigger than ever. We’re planning a Pride Starz grand finale, with the overall winner getting the chance to strut their stuff in front of the audience of Hull Pride 2012.

The competition is open to everyone – all ages, solo artists and groups – whatever your talent, we want to see it!

For more information and to apply, visit our Pride Starz 2012 page.

Hull Pride director Andy Train appeared on BBC’s Radio Humberside’s Andy Comfort Breakfast Show with Adam Wild this morning, to reflect on Hull Pride 2011, address a few misconceptions of Pride as a money-making scheme and to talk about plans for next year’s event. The full interview is available in the player below and the entire show is available to stream for the next seven days by clicking here.

Adam Wild Breakfast Show 8th Aug 2011 by andyetc

To celebrate the launch of our brilliant new online store, we’ll be giving a Hull Pride t-shirt to one lucky person who buys an early bird ticket from the website. Tickets are on-sale at half price until the end of August and start at only £2.50! Click here to get yours now.

Even if you’re not a lucky winner, you can still get hold of a whole range of Hull Pride goodies, including t-shirts, hoodies, iPhone cases, badges and even pet t-shirts! Click here to take a look.

It’s been over a week since the 10th Hull Pride and we’d love to hear your feedback on the day.

The official Hull Pride debrief takes place at The Octagon, Walker Street 6.30pm on Thursday 18th August and we’d love for as many of you to attend as possible

This will also give you an opportunity to shape the Hull Pride Festival 2012.

We have lots of ideas already and many of you have been really helpful in letting us know what we are doing right and where we can improve. Hull Pride doesn’t happen without you, so please feel free to contribute. We promise it won’t be boring and we have a lot of fun even with the debrief!

If you can’t make it down, we’d still really appreciate your feedback, either by email to: pride@andytrain.co.uk or via our Facebook or Twitter accounts.

Marcus Matthews of WHCR has posted a full report from last weekends Hull Pride, including interviews with Lord Mayor Colin Inglis, Hull Pride Director Andy Train, Kelly Llorenna, Nicki French, our press officer Matt Walton, Tish Lamb from Cornerhouse.

Give it a listen in the player below!

As a massive thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate the tenth anniversary of Hull Pride this weekend, we’re offering advance tickets to next years Hull Pride for half price!

Half price tickets will only be on sale during August and there’s a strictly limited number, so don’t miss out! 

We’re in the early stages of planning, but we can confirm that Hull Pride has been extended to two days and will take place on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd July 2012.

Tickets are exclusively available from this website. Click here to book your tickets now.

This year’s Hull Pride event, which took place on Saturday 30 July, has been hailed as a massive success by the event’s organisers.

Over 5,000 people attended on the day to see acts including the Vengaboys, X-Factor contestants The Reason 4 and dance diva Kelly Llorenna.

Pride Director Andy Train said: “We were really pleased with the turn-out this year. It was the first year we’ve charged for entry and we really hoped that people would feel like they got value for money and from what we’re hearing, they did.”

The gates opened at 10.30am on Saturday morning when the Pride Upstarz took to the stage. This group of young people had all entered a competition to perform on the stage alongside the headline acts. The competition was won by Michael Jackson dance-a-like Perry Pullman, but the standard was so high among the many children who entered that they were given a slot before the official opening.

Lord Mayor of Hull Colin Inglis took to the stage at midday to officially open the event before the main acts started to perform. The Lord Mayor had previously arranged for the Pride Flag to fly over the Guildhall and on his car for the day to show his support for the event. He then took his table in the VIP area to enjoy the show, meeting the Vengaboys and The Reason 4.

One of the highlights of the day came later in the afternoon when representatives from Humberside Police and Humberside Fire and Rescue Service joined the organisers on stage for a fully choreographed performance of the YMCA.

Andy said: “We wanted to do something to involve the Police and the Fire Service as they have been so supportive, both this year and in the past. The Fire Service even agreed to fly the pride flag over all of their Hull stations last year, which they repeated this year.”

As the Vengaboys took to the stage to close to close the show, the crowd’s excitement grew. Performing all of their hits including their number ones, Boom, boom, boom, boom! and We’re Going to Ibiza to finish the day on a high.

Andy said: “The whole team worked really hard to make this year’s event happen donating their time, skills and investing their own money to ensure it went ahead and that people had a great day. We’re really proud of what we achieved.”

The Hull Pride Committee would like to thank all of their sponsors and advertisers for their support along with everyone who volunteered on the day.

See you next year.