Southampton pride

Southampton Pride was founded in 2016 as a response to the homophobic attack on the Pulse Nightclub and over the last 7 years has welcomed close to 100,000 people to the city of Southampton to come together and both celebrate our identity freely but continue to campaign for the rights of LGBTQ+ people across the globe. In the year up to March 2022, Hampshire saw the highest increase in reported hate crime across the South, with sexual orientation hate crimes rising by 65%. Alongside this, the number of hate crimes committed against transgender people in England and Wales increased in recent years, reaching 4,355 offences in 2021/22 compared with just 313 such offences in 2011/12. Southampton Pride remains committed to fighting back against hate crime of all varieties, protecting our local LGBTQ+ community from discrimination and prejudices and ensuring all in our community are free to live their lives away from hate and injustice.