LGBT

Orange is the New Black star and iconic gay actress Lea DeLaria will act as Grand Marshall for this year’s Manchester Pride.

Following the success of the first clean up, the group hope that volunteers will sacrifice their time to give the village a last minute spruce before the Manchester Pride Big Weekend

Bouncers at Princess Street’s Alter Ego are also alleged to have ‘misgendered’ the man after he was repeatedly called ‘she’ despite protests at the incident, which happened around 2am.

The Village Bakers are hoping that those who are a dab hand in the kitchen will rise to the occasion and deliver their best homemade treats for the Great Village Bake Off 2014.

Pop princess Pixie Lott will be one of the headline acts at Manchester Pride this year.

Manchester Pride Fringe includes Pride, Coming Out: from Script to Screen, Byte and The Pansy Project

The project, funded by a £473,123 grant from the Big Lottery Fund, hopes to reach 22,000 people aged between 13-25 across the region, focusing particularly on Manchester and Stockport

Following on from the success of the first Geek Pride, the celebration is now an annual legacy event to recognise Alan Turing, his achievements and his LGBT identity.

Alan Turing’s hotly-anticipated biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley will open the British Film Festival it has been revealed alongside the film’s first trailer.

The gender swapping pioneer has gone largely unrecognised in modern pop culture, but a new play, part of Manchester Fringe, looks to explore the conflicted diva along with three other significant LGBT figures

A calorific brownie, lovingly crafted by Hey Little Cupcake!, is celebrating Manchester and one of the UK’s biggest LGBT festivals in chocolatey excess.