ABOUT US.
Celebrating equality and diversity. Bourne Free is a celebration of diversity, equality and inclusion. The organisation was built to showcase the beauty in all of us through events, and entertainment that help spread awareness of the wonderful differences in all of us. You were born free and so were we, and that’s worth treasuring and protecting.
Our story.
Bourne Free was originally set up in 2004 when a far right organisation was due to come to Bournemouth and preach that homosexuality was wrong. Many prominent figures and active members of the gay communities in the area came together to organise an event in the Lower Gardens to protect the gay communities from the bigots and keep them together for a day of celebration, rather than of hostility.
The event included entertainers performing at The Bandstand to support diversity, a balloon release with a 2 minute silence for victims of hate crime and Bournemouth’s first Gay Pride march. By the end of the day those that had come together just a few weeks before the preachers came to Bournemouth, the Bourne Free Committee, felt that they could have done even more if they had more time.
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