2006 – The First Stoke Pride

In 2006 The Club and Three Tuns along with other established venues hosted the “Big Pink Car Park” event. This was the first community event that could properly be called Stoke Pride. Previous attempts to organise an event as early as 1998 and in 2003 had been abandoned.

1998 – Planning a Gay Festival

In early 1998 the North Staffs Lesbian and Gay Community forum announced plans to hold a gala event that would have been Stoke-on-Trent’s first Pride if it had gone ahead. Mike Wolfe, later to become Stoke’s first elected Mayor, bravely fronted the public announcements on behalf of the forum.