PETER Symonds College, Winchester, has held its first Pride Festival.

Held on the college campus, the festival featured an array of attractions with the aim of celebrating and embracing diversity.

This included singing and dancing, face painting, stalls, speeches from the Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA) and Peter Symonds Student Union president Zac Hussain, as well as a colourful performance by local drag artist Cherry Liquor.

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Head of BTEC Law and festival organiser, Graham Childs, said: “Our inaugural Pride Festival was established to mark and unite our similarities and our differences on a day of bright and beautiful celebration.

“The college has always been fully committed to promoting equality of opportunity and has good relations with GSA and NEU (National Education Union), of which we are proud. It was fabulous to see students and staff come together and get right into the swing of things.”

The festival is one of the many annual and ongoing initiatives lead by the college’s equality and diversity ambassadors to help ensure that everyone at the college has a voice and is represented.