June is Pride month – a month dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.
Pride is a commemoration of the progress that has been made for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. It is also an opportunity to promote the need for further education and awareness of issues that affect people in the community.
To mark Pride, Cambridge City Council will be flying the Progress Pride flag at the Guildhall during the month of June.
On Saturday 14 June, Cambridge Pride will return to Jesus Green for a festival that brings together diverse communities of Cambridge for a day of celebration, entertainment, and unity.
The festival is free to attend and open to everyone.
In support of this volunteer organised event, the council awarded £5,000 to The Pink Festival Group to be put towards organising Cambridge Pride.
Supporting the LGBTQ+ community
The council’s support for the LGBTQ+ community is part of its wider commitment to strengthening equality and inclusion and celebrating diversity in Cambridge.
This year the council committed £24,000 towards The Kite Trust to support their work with young LGBTQ+ people in Cambridge and for the coordination of LGBTQ+ History Month activities in February 2026.
The council is a signatory and co-founder of the Cambridgeshire-wide Equality Pledge, which encourages signatories to show their commitment to challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity.
On 22 October 2020, the council passed the Trans rights are human rights motion to address hate crimes and discrimination aimed at the LGBTQ+ community. The motion makes wider commitments to LGBTQ+ people as well as trans people. One part of this motion commits us to raise the Progress Pride flag for LGBTQ+ History Month (February) and Pride month (June), and the trans flag on International Trans Day of Visibility (31 March) and International Trans Day of Remembrance (20 November).
The council is keen to talk to anyone who is part of or wants to develop a local group supporting or organising events for LGBTQ+ people to identify opportunities where the council may be able to provide support.
