2023
Trans Pride Hastings would like to thank Home Live Art, Unison, AG Smiles, Supa Model Agency, Mark Caffrey, Sober Rebel, The Female DIY Musician, Hastings Rainbow Alliance, God Skateboarding, Cipher Press, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Butch Salads, The Hastings Bookshop, Amanda Middleton, The Candle Orchard, De La Warr Pavilion, The Observer Building, Hair & Hound, Alfredo & Sues, Licence to Kale, She Choir, Flickers Film Club, The Crown, The Regency Rooms, The Open Press, Hastings Rec Football Team & Hastings Council. Also a big shout out to our beautiful bunch of volunteers, performers, event co-organisers and to everyone who showed up.
2023 was the very first official Trans Pride in Hastings, St Leonards & Bexhill. We raised £7578.94 from donations, local business sponsorship, fundraising events and ticket and t-shirt sales. Our community and our town made trans Pride Hastings an uplifting and incredible week of events for the local trans and non binary community.
Trans Pride Hastings 2023 took the form of 15 events over 8 days focusing on community building, support and celebration.
We took Hastings to Brighton to march with 30,000 people at Brighton Trans Pride, we went to Bexhill for the day for tattoos, badges, life drawing and a social. St Leonards hosted our dog hang out, Big Queer Party and a picnic on the beach. Over in Hastings we got busy with a book club, a trans museum tour, two cinema events, trans skateboarding, local business training and a craft event for parents and partners.
Trans Pride Hastings was also a finalist for a Trans In the City Award and we are in the running for the Grass Roots Pride Gaydio Award in February.