Pride Cymru has been celebrating its 25th anniversary with a parade taking place around the capital followed by a music festival in Cardiff Castle.

Thousands take part in Pride Cymru's biggest ever event

From humble beginnings in 1999, the event now welcome tens-of-thousands from across Wales and further afield. 

Cardiff marks a quarter of a century of celebrating the LGBTQ+ community

At the age of 25, April Ashley became one of the first people to undergo successful gender reassignment surgery. 

The trailblazing trans woman who made Wales her home after being outed

Georgina Gilbert and Rebecca Owenshaw-Rowe became the first all LGBTQI+ team to make it to the South Pole unsupported.

'We’re changing the narrative of what it means to be a girl’

Today marks National Coming Out Day, an annual LGBTQ+ awareness day, to support anyone 'coming out of the closet'.

'Growing up gay in a rural community left me feeling isolated and lonely' 

New data released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggests more than one in 25 people in Wales identify as LGB.

Wales has highest proportion of people identifying as LGB in UK, figures show

Shash Appan co-founded Trans Aid Cymru after she she didn't feel accepted by her family when she came out as a trans woman. 

'I found myself homeless after coming out as transgender'

Natasha John created an artwork for the LGBTQIA+ community as part of Pride month. 

Inclusive artwork vandalised with homophobic and transphobic message 

Sab Samuels, also known as Aida H Dee, said they had to have security with them while touring after a number of "scary" interactions with protestors.

'I've been threatened with acid attacks for reading kids story books in drag'

Pride Cymru, which is taking place on both Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 June, will feature headline acts including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Claire Richards from Steps.

Pride Cymru: Cardiff gears up for bumper weekend of events and entertainment

Ruth Birch, joined the army in February 1987 as an Analyst in the Intelligence Corps and recalled how she had to "put up" a front to hide her sexuality.

'The army split me and my partner up - but we found each other 25 years later'

FILE - The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema speaks during their picket against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill at the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa on April 4, 2023. Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has signed into law tough new anti-gay legislation supported by many in the country but widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad, it was announced Monday, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

The Welsh Government says it’s “deeply disturbed” by new anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Uganda but has no plans to end its partnership “with the people of Uganda.”

Wales will not end Ugandan partnership in light of new anti-LGBTQ+ laws

Rev. Rory Castle Jones, Minister at Gellionnen Chapel is working hard to make people from the LGBTQ+ community feel welcome in churches and chapels like his.

'It restored my faith': The church that is putting inclusivity at its heart

The event, organised by Together for Colwyn Bay, was a celebration of the town's diversity and of the wider north Wales LGBTQ+ community.

Hundreds celebrate local diversity at first ever Colwyn Bay Pride

Brianna Ghey, 16, was found with fatal stab wounds in a park shortly after 3pm on Saturday 11 February. Two 15-year-olds have since been charged.

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