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Student Pride 2012 tickets on sale

Friday, 27 January 2012

National Student Pride is back! Now a firm fixture in Brighton (this is the fourth year the event has been staged in the gay-friendly seaside city), this year taking over the fantastic Brighton Dome complex. 1,200 students are expected to descend for the weekend from Universities and Colleges all over the UK, from St Andrews and Dundee in Scotland to the South Coast.

Tickets are selling like hotcakes and - as with the previous three years - organisers expect the event to sell out. Downloadable e-tickets can be bought online at www.studentpride.co.uk/tickets. The event is aimed at students but you don't need to be a student to attend - everyone is welcome.

The three day event is on the 24th-26th February 2012 and includes political debate, an LGBT recruitment, community information and gay business fair, a bar and club crawl or two and - of course - a huge party with nationally acclaimed DJs and live bands in the 1,000 capacity Corn Exchange.

Saturday's ‘Question Time’-style debate is this year being run in association with Attitude magazine and includes Attitude Editor Matthew Todd, Stonewall's Editor of the Year.

Amongst other celebs joining the panel to answer questions from LGBT students will be the NBA’s first out gay basketball player John Amaechi OBE.

"We're really excited about this year's event," said Danica Histed, Chair of National Student Pride. “The move to the Brighton Dome enables the event to get much bigger and much better, including allowing the Under 18s in to the daytime event for the first time."

Headline sponsors for the event for the second year running is Stonewall's Workplace Equality Employer of the Year 2012: Ernst & Young.

Liz Bingham, Ernst & Young’s Managing Partner for People, UK & Ireland commented "We’re very proud to support National Student Pride for another year. At Ernst & Young we are passionate about enabling people to come together in an environment where they feel included and respected. National Student Pride enables LGBT students to do just that."
 
The big weekend kicks off on Friday 24th February with an official pre-pride party at Revenge nightclub, with the main event taking place at Brighton Dome from 1pm on the Saturday. In addition to the Question Time Debate there will be stalls and a job fair with companies like Ernst & Young, Accenture, American Express, Stonewall and THT. There will be a bar and great live music provided by the team that created the hugely acclaimed Brighton Pride Women's Tent. The cast of My Transsexual Summer, the hit C4 TV show will be at the event and Calvin Klein models will be greeting delegates at the doors.

The evening festivities being with the Brighton Tour, great drink deals and games around Brighton’s Gay Village; climaxing with the massive club night at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange. 

The night will include live music, celebrity appearances and chart topping indie-pop-electro-house with resident DJs Alex Baker from Gaydar Radio, Brighton’s Revenge and London’s Onyx and DJ Jonesy from Juice Radio Brighton. There will also be some surprise guests (In 2010 Boyzone’s Ronan Keating made a surprise appearance to show support for LGBT students).

Partying continues in to the early hours at the official after party at Brighton’s Revenge nightclub from 2am before finishing with the hungover Sunday lunch.

For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.studentpride.co.uk, follow them
on twitter.com/studentpride and join them on facebook.com/studentpride.