Cardiff’s LGBT+ community is too white and too male, according to Pride Cymru’s leader Lu Thomas.
Pride Cymru, which supports the LGBT+ community, says gay bars and clubs in the city need to do more to include women and people of colour to reflect Cardiff’s diversity.
Ms Thomas wants to see members of the local gay scene share their thoughts at public sessions to get more women, BAME and trans people involved.
Ms Thomas said: “We are very segregated within our individual communities within the city.
“There seems to be a societal shift towards sticking to what you know, who you know and what you like.
“A very small number of people who come to Pride are from our BAME community. It’s tiny.
“If you go into the gay scene within Cardiff, again, it’s very white and it’s very male so that really needs to be assessed.”
Abbie Owen, who has worked at gay clubs in Cardiff, said she and other women had been harassed and insulted while working.
She said: “I feel people need to be better educated about how they act around certain people and not be so rude.
“They need to learn not to touch people. It’s a shame because because we should be an all-inclusive environment.”
Meanwhile Ms Thomas said Pride Cymru is hoping to increase the number of people attending its annual Big Weekend event.
She wants to overtake equivalent organisations’ events in the UK. Currently Pride Cymru is in fifth place after Birmingham and Newcastle.
Ms Thomas said Wales’ annual Pride event was often forgotten about and she wants to “firmly plant it on the gay calendar”.
