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Paris Lees, Yungblud, Dan Howell, Natasha Devon, Davina Mccall, Joanna Lumley, Lady Phyll Join National Student Pride 2021
For a whole week this April, National Student Pride are serving you hands, face and queer space with an incredible roster of online events for LGBTQ+ students. We’re here to be your digital pit stop for topical panel discussions, queer game shows and the UK’s largest LGBTQ+ careers fair.
Come and join the fun on April 19th-25th and register for the festival on Hopin – hopin.com/events/national-student-pride-2021?ref=e5f18a181f61
Speakers & guests already confirmed for our digital festival:
- Stephen Fry
- Munroe Bergdorf
- Lorraine Kelly
- Nick Grimshaw and Aimee Phillips
- Lawrence Chaney
- Tia Kofi
- Suzi Ruffell
- Charlie Craggs
A safe space for LGBTQ+ students and young people
National Student Pride is debuting a totally digital format for 2021, tackling 4 main themes as part of a week-long event:
- Mental Health with a focus on loneliness and isolation, in association with Attitude Magazine – Monday 19th April
- Women – Tuesday 20th April
- Trans+ Education – Wednesday 21st April
- Black Lives Matter – Thursday 22nd April
These are extremely important issues within the community, and our festival will host a raft of informative and exciting content covering many different topics and aspects of them.
This Evening
with Nick Grimshaw and Aimee Phillips
Airing Wednesday 21st April, 20:00
Magazine shows are a staple of life in the UK, and we’re bringing you one with an LGBTQ+ twist – This Evening! Hosted by broadcaster Nick Grimshaw and his best friend, Creative Director, DJ and stylist Aimee Phillips – on Wednesday 21st April we’ll be bringing you a smorgasbord of entertainment and education. We’ll try to solve your problems, help you cook, jusz up your fashion and serve exquisite art, all packaged in a hugely entertaining hour.
Joining the stellar line-up are Davina McCall, Celebrity Masterchef winner Riyadh Khalaf; fashion designer and entrepreneur, Henry Holland; artist Nathan Wyburn, and legend of screen and stage, Joanna Lumley OBE.
Mental Health Panel Discussion with Attitude Magazine
Monday 19th April, 19:00
In association with Attitude magazine, and hosted by it’s editor, Cliff Joannou, National Student Pride remains committed to staying at the forefront of national conversation by tackling one of the hardest of them all – mental health. In a year that has taken its toll on everyone’s mental wellbeing, with the rise of loneliness and isolation disproportionately affecting young LGBT+ people, this high-profile panel will delve into experiences, knowledge and research about mental health in the post-pandemic world.
Joining the stellar line-up are pop sensation, YUNGBLUD; LBC presenter and author, Natasha Devon; YouTuber, Dan Howell, and winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Lawrence Chaney.
Cheers, Queers! with Lorraine Kelly, Lawrence Chaney, Tia Kofi, Charlie Craggs & Suzi Ruffell
Airing Sunday 25th April, 19:00
In these final days of lockdown, we’re bringing you the boss level of online quizzes. Come and join Lorraine Kelly as she hosts an irreverent celebration of British pop culture. Who famously sang ‘Cher Lloyd by Cher Lloyd’? Who has ‘all the grace of a reversing dump truck’? This is the show where we celebrate the offbeat icons of recent history. Hosted by television royalty Lorraine Kelly, who will be joined by team captains Lawrence Chaney, the recently crowned winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, and Tia Kofi, fellow Drag Race UK castmate and the breakout comedy star of the season. Joining Team Lawrence and Team Tia will be comedian, actress and writer Suzi Ruffell, and author and activist Charlie Craggs – with more contestants to be announced. This is one game show you won’t want to miss!
In conversation with Paris Lees
Monday 19th April
Ahead of the launch of her debut novel, What It Feels Like For A Girl, Paris Lees sits down at National Student Pride for a conversation about the writing process, mental health, and her career as a journalist, presenter, and Vogue columnist.
Unflinching, hilarious and heart-breaking, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from our National Student Pride ambassador.
Other highlights of the festival include:
- Mental Health: In conversation with Cherry Valentine. National Student Pride meet with mental health nurse and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Cherry Valentine and discuss the impact of the pandemic on mental health services, the challenges young LGBTQ+ people can face with their mental health and offering advice on what services are available to them.
- Trans make-up masterclass for beginners. Beauty expert, entrepreneur, artist and blogger Joseph Harwood provides an interactive masterclass focussed on Trans make-up, with commentary and Q&A.
- Bestselling novelist, screenwriter and journalist Juno Dawson hosts the Trans+ Education panel, joined by Munroe Bergdorf, Dani St James and a host of other panellists.
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Our Black Lives Matter panel discussion will be hosted by the co-founder of UK Black Pride, Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah.
- Clifford Chance presents a Voguing workshop with the Father of the UK House of Revlon, Jay Jay Revlon, a leading authority of Ballroom in the UK.
Filming of the four themed panel debates, This Evening and Cheers, Queers! will be taking place at G-A-Y Heaven in central London.