To mark the time of year when thousands of people would ordinarily be gearing up for Pride season, the highlight of the LGBT+ calendar, NHS England is hosting its first-ever ‘Virtual Pride’ to celebrate and involve all of its LGBT+ staff and their allies, and have extended the invite to the whole of the NHS.
In previous years South Tyneside Sexual Health staff have joined in Pride events 
to celebrate who they are, to showcase the NHS as Europe’s biggest employer of LGBT+ staff, and to stand in solidarity with all those who still face discrimination or feel unable to be open about their sexuality or gender expression at home or at work.
With these events unable to take place this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, members of the NHS England and NHS Improvement LGBT+ Staff Network and others have given up their spare time and expertise to organize NHS Virtual Pride on Friday 26 June.