Porty Pride belongs to Porty.

LGBTQ+ people enrich Porty life, and we want to celebrate this within our communities.

Our community includes LGBTQ+ communities and their allies because it needs all of us to bring about the world we want to live in. We aim to bring the whole community of Porty together to mark Pride and support everyone in our community to be themselves.

Our ethos is to provide a safe, intergenerational, celebratory and educational Pride weekend for the whole LGBTQ+ community and our allies in a respectful environment.

We are proud to be

Intergenerational. intersectional. accessible. community-run.

We see community as a positive tool of activism and community-building as a powerful solution to social injustices.

You can expect all our event hosts to share and promote our ethos and values.

You can find out more about what we expect from our partners in our Terms of Understanding

Our Story

2021

We celebrated Pride Month by flying Progress flags along Portobello High Street.

It was a huge success and created a positive and safe environment for the local community.

We understood why we couldn't come together to march during the pandemic, but this didn't remove the need for Pride.

2022

We held the first official Porty Pride

With street parties, family-friendly events and lots of sunshine, the sense of community and solidarity was very strong.

It was so good that we decided to do it every year!

Take a walk down memory lane in our archive.

We are Scotlands First Fossil Free Pride

  • We have a publicly available ethical sponsorship policy

  • We don’t accept sponsorship from or partnership with fossil fuel companies

  • We don’t accept sponsorship from or partnership with financial institutions funding fossil fuel companies

We are Lottery Funded

Porty Pride has been awarded funding by The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland, giving us a seed fund that will enable us to continue with Porty Pride and to plan ahead for our future.

We thank them for their support and their belief in our LGBTQ community.

No Pink Washing

Porty Pride do not wish to create or contribute to any activity which would equate to “pink washing”

This means the promotion of the LGBT+ friendliness of a corporate or political entity in an attempt to downplay or soften aspects of it considered negative.