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Welcome to REALCardiff.net, your guide to gay Cardiff and part of a national network of local city gay scene guides. Within these pages you'll find daily listings for gay and gay-friendly events in Cardiff, a growing archive of photos taken on the scene, a directory of gay and gay-friendly businesses and plenty more besides! The site thrives on people like you taking an interest in sharing your photographs, thoughts and comments! If you have any comments or suggestions or you'd like to find out more about contributing to the site please don't hesitate to get in touch and we'll give you more details.

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Cardiff Pride 2008

Cardiff Pride 2008 : Finger on the Pulse Cardiff Pride 2008 : Finger on the Pulse (Pulse)
Saturday, 6 September 2008
Darkness fell and we returned to the Pulse street party to find a much bigger crowd now out for the evening's entertainment, all worries of wet weather now forgotten....
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Cardiff Pride 2008 : Top Tunes & Friendly Faces Cardiff Pride 2008 : Top Tunes & Friendly Faces
(Club X)
Sat, 6 Sep 08
Cardiff Pride 2008: Awash with Pride! Cardiff Pride 2008: Awash with Pride!
(Club X)
Sat, 6 Sep 08

Cardiff Mardi Gras 2007

An Exit to Pride An Exit to Pride (Exit)
Saturday, 1 September 2007
Pride celebrations continued well into the night all around Cardiff and a fair few ended up at Exit, Cardiff's camp old queen of a club - fresh from its recent facelift. The place was heaving with gorgeous Mardi Gras revellers - with plenty of smiles for the REALCardiff camera!
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An Iconic Night An Iconic Night (Bar Icon)
Saturday, 1 September 2007
One of the latest additions to the Cardiff scene, Bar Icon, had it's own party going on - with everyone up and dancing the night away before heading off to the clubs....
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Pulse Street Party : Sunday Pulse Street Party : Sunday
(Pulse)
Sun, 2 Sep 07
Pulse Street Party : Saturday (1 substory) Pulse Street Party : Saturday (1 substory)
(Pulse)
Sat, 1 Sep 07
On a Golden Sunday On a Golden Sunday (The Golden Cross)
Sunday, 2 September 2007
Well, the Golden Cross certainly pulled out all the stops this Mardi Gras weekend! What a jaw-droppingly good line-up they managed to lay on! Headline acts included Trashville Tennessee and the DE Exp...
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Cardiff Mardi Gras 2007 Cardiff Mardi Gras 2007
(Coopers Field : Bute Park)
Sat, 1 Sep 07
Cross Undressing Cross Undressing
(The Golden Cross)
Fri, 31 Aug 07

Cardiff Mardi Gras Archives

Exit at Cardiff Mardi Gras 2006 Exit at Cardiff Mardi Gras 2006 (Exit)
Saturday, 2 September 2006
Cardiff Mardi Gras... Not fat and not on a Tuesday, although it was in Cardiff. The damp weather fortunately didn’t dampen the spirits and the parties continued all day and all night.
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Cardiff Mardi Gras 2005 : Street Party Cardiff Mardi Gras 2005 : Street Party (The Golden Cross)
Sunday, 11 September 2005
Pride Sundays are often my favourite days. Everyone's chilled out, and if you're lucky, you get to attend a fab little street party with plenty of entertainment!...
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Cardiff Mardi Gras 2005 : Cooper's Field Cardiff Mardi Gras 2005 : Cooper's Field
(Coopers Field : Bute Park)
Sat, 10 Sep 05
Cardiff Mardi Gras 2005 : Friday Night Cardiff Mardi Gras 2005 : Friday Night
(Exit)
Fri, 9 Sep 05
Cardiff Mardi Gras 2005 : Queue X Cardiff Mardi Gras 2005 : Queue X (Club X)
Saturday, 10 September 2005
There's nothing like a good queue to meet new people and renew old friendships... By the time we arrived at the front of the second queue (the first being for a pint of beer) Club X was packed an...
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Cardiff Mardi Gras 2004 (5 substories) Cardiff Mardi Gras 2004 (5 substories)
Fri, 3 - Mon, 6 Sep 04
Proud to be Welsh (isn' it?) Proud to be Welsh (isn' it?)
(Club X)
Sat, 30 Aug 03

Gran Canaria Pride 2009

Another Night Out In The Yumbo Another Night Out In The Yumbo (Yumbo Centre, Gran Canaria)
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
A big gay night out with the boys... or should that be GIRLS in the Yumbo!...
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Pride 2009 : Thursday at the Yumbo Pride 2009 : Thursday at the Yumbo
(Yumbo Centre, Gran Canaria)
Thu, 7 May 09
Gran Canaria Pride Parade 2009 (4 substories) Gran Canaria Pride Parade 2009 (4 substories)
Sat, 9 May 09
Pretty in Pink (2 substories) Pretty in Pink (2 substories) (Yumbo Centre, Gran Canaria)
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Tonight the shopping centre was pretty in pink. Well, okay, it wasn't pretty - because it's a concrete shopping centre. But the gays were all out in pink for Pride, which couldn't help ...
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Mr Gay Gran Canaria 2009 Mr Gay Gran Canaria 2009
(Las Walkirias, Gran Canaria)
Wed, 6 May 09
More poolside partying More poolside partying
(Las Walkirias, Gran Canaria)
Tue, 5 May 09
Friday night main stage Friday night main stage (Yumbo Centre, Gran Canaria)
Friday, 8 May 2009
Great acts from around the corner and around the world graced the stage at the Yumbo tonight, for day two of the three days of shows for Mas Palomas Gay Pride 2009 in Gran Canaria!...
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Gran Canaria! Gran Canaria!
(Gay Pride Maspalomas)
Mon, 4 May 09

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25th July 09

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25th July 09

REALPride carries full details of these events and the major pride and mardi gras festivals around the world.