Organisers of the increasingly popular Liverpool Pride Festival have announced that the free event will return for its eighth consecutive year during summer 2017.

The region’s established annual celebration of all things LGBT will again take place across two days – Saturday 29th July and Sunday 30th July 2017.

Liverpool Pride has grown to become one of the city’s major annual events, attracting more than 32,000 festivalgoers in 2016 to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.

The theme for 2017 has also now been revealed as International Love, with Liverpool Pride organisers looking to work with spread the Liverpool message far and wide amongst partners in Merseyside’s twin towns and cities.