In partnership with Crown Estate Scotland, we are delighted to announce a new Cairngorms Pride Village for the National Park, designed for long and short-term residents, occasional overnighters and full-on hibernators. The build and installation of our new rainbow residences and air bee-and-bees is coming along great! Time now to work on their very own kitchen sink Instagram drama, Pollination Street. More updates to come soon!
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Pollination Street
Cairngorms Pride Village
Queer joy + nature restoration + plenty of drama
We hope to be welcoming new families into new bee and bug houses on the Glenlivet Estate very soon!
We are expecting to welcome families of SOLITARY BEES, LACEWINGS, WOODLICE AND LADYBIRDS to our new Cairngorms Pride Village, and we have been busy building and installing our first village residences!
At least three of these species are also members of the queer nature family. Male lacewings like to "duet", solitary bees sometimes too, and gender fluidity and transness appears in woodlice. Ladybirds are in our ally community.
You got involved and told us your ideas
You have sent us some brilliant ideas for our new invertebrate characters who are set to star in our forthcoming Insta drama. From names to likes and interests, you have certainly used your imagination, and there is set to be plenty of queer representation in our Cairngorms Pride Village.
The Cairngorms Pride Village Build - August 2025
Not everything is straight in the Cairngorms Pride Village, as you'll see in the images below ...
Our friends at SPEYSHED helped us make our grand designs, according to best practice for bee and bug hotels, as advised by our friends at Crown Estate Scotland and NESBiP. Our Pride Village is now a rainbow reality and the first stages of it can be found at the Glenlivet Estate Office at Tomintoul, and at Drumin Castle at the north of the Estate too. We're hoping there may be a third location at some point in the future.
COMING SOON:
Pollination Street - Scotland's newest LGBTQ+ drama - coming to the Cairngorms Pride Insta feed in the coming weeks!
Our Partners
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
Crown Estate Scotland
Somewhere EDI CIC and Somewhere: For Us magazine
Installation Day: August 22nd 2025
A village where not everything is straight.
A village where not everything is straight.
A village where not everything is straight.
A village where not everything is straight.
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