Trans Pride Bristol
Trans Pride Bristol was founded in 2016 as Trans Pride South West and it was the second trans pride to be established in the UK. Trans Pride Bristol consists of several weeks of events, culminating in a day of celebrating trans people at the end of March. In 2024, Trans Pride South West rebranded to Trans Pride Bristol to reflect the increasing focus of local communities in Bristol and to give space for new trans prides in the South West to establish their own identities.
Trans Pride Bristol March
28 Mar 2026
This year we have adapted our march route so it's a bit of a closer march to our Community Day venue, the Trinity Centre.
We are still going to be loud and proud across the streets of Bristol, starting from the Cenotaph. Gather from 10.30am for speeches, with the march starting at 11.15am.
Museum partner
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery M Shed
M Shed
Princes Wharf
Wapping Rd
Bristol
BS1 4RN
Trans Pride Bristol 2023
Our contribution to the collection
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Placard Trans Pride South West
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/002
Tag A homemade sign for Trans Pride South West. This represents where the organisation came from – used for a variety of events.
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 780 mm Width 590 mm Depth 5 mm
Hand painted brown cardboard placard with a stylised heart coloured in trans and non-binary colours and text "Trans Pride South West"
- Polaroid Of Someone In Red Dungarees MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/020
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Photographs
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 90 mm Width 55 mm Depth 1 mm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Purple Rimmel London Nail polish
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/011
Tag After buying my first item of clothing at 23, I obtained this nail polish soon after, because it perfectly colour-matched. When I visited (& came out to) my brother & my bestie in London, I spent hours carefully donning the nail polish beforehand, using a leaf to neaten up my nails where I'd overpainted!
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Bathroom / Beauty
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 70 mm Width 30 mm Depth 30 mm
A bottle of Rimmel 60 second shine nail polish (colour: Lovey Dovey), with a brown handwritten luggage tag.
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Rebekah's Secret Grandpa Book By Andy Thornton
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/005
Tag I wrote an illustrated this children's book about a trans Grandpa for my final major project on my art foundation at Oxford Brookes in 2014. I reasearched so many "ftm" people wanting it to be accurate and representative. I didn't make the viewpoint character trans as "I wasn't trans"…. good one. Looking back, all of that research was for me. I wanted to represent older trans people who we often don't see. But I also wanted to know I had a future. I told the first person ever that I might be a boy in the last week of the course.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 214 mm Width 216 mm Depth 3 mm
Photograph of the book 'Rebekah's Secret Grandpa' by Andy Thornton which shows an illustration of a young person with long brown hair and an older person with grey hair and glasses. The younger person is holding a magnifying glass.
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Rocks In A Plastic Bag
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/010
Tag The floor of my dressing room! While stuck in the closet at home, the most convenient place I can dress how I want to when going out is a driveway that leads to an alleyway behind everyone's back-gardens. Today like many days, the stones are wet courtesy of the delightful British weather :D
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 100 mm Width 70 mm Depth 10 mm
A plastic money bag filled with pebbles, with a brown handwritten luggage tag.
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/018
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Scans From Personal Art Foundation Journal Titled 'Illustrations Of Ambiguity'
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/018
Tag The scans are from my 'reflective journal' that we had to keep at my art foundation. I don't know if its because my project was about transness that I felt able to so freely expose my internal fear and confusion. So here it is. In these drawings I am trying to reimagine myself. Trans men existed then, "ftm", but non-binary was almost a myth that I'd collected scraps of. The funniest thing about all of this is how subconscious it was. I wasn't aware I was trans, really. Art was the only place I gave name to it. But in doing so, I was able to give myself the clarity and certainty I needed to realise myself and come out.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Artwork, Personal Messages
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 210 mm Width 297 mm Depth 1 mm
Scans from a personal art foundation journal entitled "Illustrations of Ambiguity".
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She-Ra Enamel Pin
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/014
Tag I bought this pin at Pride CAF (Comic Art Fest) 2023 after finding out about the event the night before via Rebecca Burgess (one of the artists, who sold me this Catra x Adora pin) who was advertising the event to the She-Ra fandom on tumblr. I did some art of my own, had an overwhelming number of conversations, and I'd never seen so many trans people in one place before! I bought this pin at Pride CAF 2023 (Comic Art Fest) after discovering one of the artists (Rebecca Burgess, who was selling She-Ra pins) advertising the event on tumblr. I'd never seen so many trans people in one place before! I had an overwhelming number of conversation-s and bought many things & did some art.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Badges
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 35 mm Width 35 mm Depth 10 mm
An enamel pin showing two people embracing and holding hands. One is blonde and wearing a red outfit and the other has brown hair and animal ears. They are characters from the cartoon She-Ra. The pin is attached to a brown tag with a handwritten message on it.
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Sheer Tights
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/012
Tag My friend hosts a 'sock raffle' as part of our Xmas celebration traditions, and after I won these tights, I wore them under my trousers when I was feeling low while stuck in the closet at home.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 5 mm Width 440 mm Depth 100 mm
Pair of beige/natural tights with a brown handwritten luggage tag.
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Two Flower Hairclips
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/013
Tag When I was struggling to come out to my friends, a dear friend noticed I'd changed my name & pronouns online while they were on holiday in Australia. They helped me come out to my friends, & we had some lovely chats. They asked if I wanted a gift from Australia, & I'd always wanted to wear some cute hair clips, so they brought a bunch of these flower hairclips for me ^◡^
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Bathroom / Beauty, Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 25 mm Width 25 mm Depth 15 mm
Two small flower hair clips (one orange, one green) with a brown handwritten luggage tag.