VisitBritain has partnered with American Airlines to provide our attendees  a 5% discount for the London Gay Pride event in London, England. The valid travel dates for this discount are June 13th – July 10th 2010. You can easily access American’s fares and apply this discount by going to www.aa.com/rainbow to book your flight. Place the below Promotion Code  in the promotion code box and your discount will be calculated automatically. This special discount is valid off any applicable published fares listed for American Airlines, American Eagle, and American Connection. International originating guests will need to contact your local reservation number and refer to the Promotion Code:  2660BP

You may also call 1-800-433-1790 to book your flights, please refer to the Authorization Number below when you call. Please note there is a reservation service charge for all tickets issued by phone. Please use our preferred partner, American Airlines when you can because of the benefits provided to you as a traveler and to our organization for extended partner value.

For information on other LGBT events in Britain click here.

There is so much going on in the UK where do you possibly start? Well today we give you all you need to know to plan your year in the UK. Be Gay in the UK in 2010!

Where to find the Bears:

Bear Pride London is the place to be for a weekend of fur, men and fun, May 27th – May 31st 2010.

Where to find the Queens:

Satisfy your taste for the Queens at The London Drag Olympics, May 1st 2010 at The WayOut Club

Where to show your Pride:

Plenty of sizzling hot events here,
Birmingham Pride, May 29th – 30th 2010
Pride Blackpool, May 15th – 16th 2010

London Pride Parade, July 3rd 2010

London Festival Fortnight, June 19th – July 3rd 2010

Brighton Summer Festival, Week of July 31st – August 8th 2010
Brighton Pride Parade & Park  Event, August 7th 2010
Cardiff Mardi Gras, September 4th 2010
Manchester Pride Festival, August 20th – August 30th 2010

Doncaster Pride, August 21st 2010
Manchester Big Weekend, August 27th- 30th 2010
Pride Scotia, June 27th 2010

Where to find the Culturatis:

All you need to know:
Glasgay! Festival LGBT Arts Festival, Dates TBD
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, March 17th – March 31st 2010
Homotopia, Dates TBD
Outsiders LGBT Film Festival, Dates TBD
GFest GayWise LGBT Arts Festival, Dates TBD

Where to find the Muscle Marys:

Have a blast at Mr Gay UK, Date TBD

Where to Sparkle:

Where else? Sparkle! July 9th – July 11th 2010

Don’t forget World Pride comes to London in 2012!

See something we’re missing? The send us a comment and let us know!

Running until July 6, POUT  (Proud and Out Cinema Week)  is a presentation of 14 iconic and contemporary LGBT films in association with London Pride. Peccadillo Pictures, Verve Pictures, ICA, Club Des Femmes and Curzon Cinemas have united to create a programme intending to cover all the bases, from ground-breaking British lesbian cult classics The World Ten Times Over and The Killing of Sister George to the award-winning documentaries Before Stonewall and The Times of Harvey Milk, taking in the notorious Hustler White, international dramas and the latest releases including Dream Boy from the US and the UK’s semi-improvised docu-drama Greek Pete, which follows a group of London rent boys for six months.
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www.pridelondon.org 

In association with Pride London, Foyles, the renowned London bookseller, stages two literary events bringing together some of the UK’s finest gay and lesbian writers. Pride Words (June 22) is an opportunity to hear leading novelists read and talk about their latest work, with Stella Duffy (Stonewall Writer of the Year 2008 and author of The Room of Lost Things), Adam Mars-Jones (Pilcrow), Mia Farlane (Footnotes to Sex), Karen Mcleod (In Search of the Missing Eyelash) and LAMBDA Award Finalist Drew Gummerson (Me and Mickie James). Who’s the Daddy? (June 23), presented by Chroma, the queer literary journal, is an evening of confessional, sentimental and wholesomely kinky poetry and live music on the multifaceted theme of fatherhood, featuring singer-songwriter Marie Tueje, playwright and poet Berta Freistadt, poet and critic Cherry Smyth, Gold Inkwell winner for poetry and drama Andra Simons and Chroma Editor Shaun Levin.
 
www.foyles.co.uk