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Pride

All the latest news on Pride Month - the celebration of LGBTQ+ identity, culture and history. The movement also works to raise awareness and campaign for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals. In 2025, Pride Month will take place from June 1st to June 30th.

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Emrhys Cooper in front of Metro's Pride background

Emrhys Cooper: I hit self-destruct over my gay identity but my story has a happy ending

Channel: Coronation Street Coronation Street July 5, 2024 By Emrhys Cooper
Chris Weir with a baseball cap and rucksack, with the Pride colours behind him (Picture: Chris Weir)

I walked into a sex shop to buy toys and left after a threesome with strangers

Channel: Sex Sex June 29, 2024 By Chris Weir
London Pride route mapped Getty Images

London Pride map shows route parade will take through city today

Channel: UK UK July 5, 2025 By Ben Ashton

Surprising city named as UK's LGBTQ+ capital (and it's not Brighton, London or Manchester)

Channel: UK UK July 5, 2024 By Katie Boyden

I lived in fear of my peers saying 'that's gay' - so I joined in

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle June 29, 2024 By Adam Miller
Play Video Thai actors Both and Newyear get engaged

Fans in 'tears' as Thai actors get engaged after same-sex marriage legalised

Channel: Showbiz Showbiz June 27, 2024 By Asyia Iftikhar
Play Video Bog Green OBE and David with Michael Marouli at Tonic Care

I couldn't imagine getting old until I visited an LGBT+ care home

Channel: Health Health June 28, 2024 By Michael Marouli
Hollyoaks cast shot on set featuring Oscar Curtis, Jonny Labey and Kieron Richardson with Metro.co.uk Soaps Editor Duncan Lindsay

Hollyoaks cast share their inspiring LGBTQ+ journeys and confirm major storylines ahead

Channel: Hollyoaks Hollyoaks June 30, 2024 By Duncan Lindsay
(Pride colour scheme to add) June 26, 6AM: The bisexual icon behind the success of the Moomins

The bisexual icon behind the success of the Moomins

Channel: TV TV June 26, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson

Why I decided to describe myself as bi, instead of pansexual

Channel: Sex Sex June 26, 2024 By Eleanor Noyce
Darren Shoneye: Women touching my body without consent

I worry about being sexually assaulted every time I go to work

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle June 24, 2024 By Darren Shoneye
Dylan Holloway singing and playing the guitar with Pride colours illustrated behind him (Picture: James Stack/Getty)

I've released a duet with someone important - my pre-transition self

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle June 26, 2024 By Dylan Holloway

Assimilation or Safety and Separation: The question facing LGBT+ football

Channel: Football Football June 23, 2024 By Paddy Knowles
Jersey Pride

This sedate little island just off the coast of France comes alive for Pride

Channel: Travel Travel June 24, 2024 By Simon Gage

I locked eyes with a man on the Tube and he asked a question that changed everything

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle June 24, 2024 By Anonymous
A still from Pride 2014

Pride is still causing trouble 10 years on but it's one of the 'most important' films ever

Channel: Film Film June 22, 2024 By Asyia Iftikhar

My wife and I had our baby during Brighton Pride — you couldn't make it up

Channel: Families Families June 22, 2024 By Kristina Beanland
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‘I was a pioneering trans TV star but now there are no roles for women like me’

Channel: TV TV June 21, 2024 By Meghna Amin

I hook up with people twice a week — but I've never had penetrative sex

Channel: Sex Sex June 21, 2024 By Alice Giddings

I had to show the Home Office messages to 'prove' I'm gay

Channel: UK UK June 21, 2024 By Hein Aung Htet