Youth group seeks financial help to attend Trans Pride Brighton

Young people from an LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and/or questioning+) youth group in Devon launch a Crowdfunder campaign to raise funds to help them attend Trans Pride in Brighton in July.

MEMBERS of the Proud2Be youth group have been involved in the planning of the trip and if successful, they hope to take part in the march, community event in the park and visit the Museum of Transology, a unique exhibit documenting the history of transgender people in the UK, hosted by Brighton Museum.

Max Price, said: “Attending Trans Pride will inspire and empower our young people, especially those who are trans themselves, by giving them to a sense of belonging to a community, and role models to look up which can be vital for a group that routinely experiences isolation and bullying. There are no comparable trans pride events in Devon, so this trip will be an experience that many young people wouldn’t otherwise be able to have.

“As part of this trip, we will also be meeting with the Allsorts Youth Group, an LGBTQ+ youth group from Brighton, providing a fantastic social opportunity for our more rural group to get to know LGBTQ+ young people from a city and share their different experiences. We are hoping that this meeting will be an opportunity to create a lasting link between the two groups for future projects.”

Trans Pride Brighton has been running since 2013 and is an important event in the LGBTQ+ calendar where trans people, friends, allies and family from all over the UK can meet and have an amazing time in a fun and safe space.

As part of the Crowdfunder campaign, several young people have recorded a short video explaining why the trip is so important to them.

In the video, Charlie says: “Being trans can be quite isolating, especially where we are in quite a rural area, it’s quite hard to meet other trans people and be in a trans space and it’s great that we have our youth group which acts like that, but being able to go to Trans Pride would be incredible, there’s so many trans people and we get to learn about trans history and be in a space that feels like ours and we can really be ourselves for the whole weekend and it’s going to be great!”