Gay Pride 2019

[LordRaven]

Pride in London organisers fend off pinkwashing claims
30,000 people to take part in march that critics say has become too commercialised

Pride in London 2019 - live updates
The organisers of Pride in London have claimed Saturday’s event will be the most sustainable and diverse in its 47-year history, despite criticism from some campaigners that it has become too regimented and commercialised.

Peter Tatchell, one of the organisers of the UK’s first Pride parade in 1972, criticised local authority-imposed limits on marcher numbers. “In the 1990s over 100,000 marched, and similar numbers would probably march today if the parade was not restricted,” he said. “Pride has become so bureaucratic and regimented. LGBT+ individuals cannot join the parade, only organisations.”

He also voiced concerns that the onerous costs for road closures, barricades and parking suspensions imposed on Pride had forced it to rely heavily on corporate sponsorship. There was a danger of “pinkwashing”, he said. “Some corporates seem to see Pride as a marketing opportunity to target LGBT+ customers.”

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Organisers said pure marketing was not allowed on the parade, and the LGBT+ policies of all participating brands had been carefully examined.

Activists have put up pro-refugee and anti-homelessness slogans on some of the capital’s buses in protest at what they say is the commercialisation of Pride in London.

The campaign group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants replaced bus advertisements with political messages along the Pride route. The “alternative ads” question why the Home Office, the Metropolitan police and global corporations are able to participate in this year’s Pride while “marginalised groups are left watching on the sidelines because they are unable to afford spaces on the march”.

Sam Bjorn, a spokesperson for the group, said: “You have to ask what London Pride is really for? While the Home Office are celebrated, the LGBT+ migrants that they have dehumanised, detained and forced to live in fear of deportation have to watch from the sidelines.”

Bjorn pointed out that on the day in June when the Home Office changed its social media profile to the rainbow colours it emerged that a gay rugby player was being deported from the UK. He said 78% of asylum cases where the applicants were from the LGBT+ community were turned down.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... ing-claims

Will there ever be a Straight Pride Festival? I doubt it very much.
However I am very glad that this particular event goes ahead each year so that people who feel differently do not have to hide their true selves away from the world, get bullied and ridiculed and/or end up doing themselves in.
The world would be a poorer place if these people were still looked upon as deviants and treated in the disgusting manner as happened in the past.
War Hero Alan Turing being the classic case of an ungrateful nation being responsible for his death, cunts!

[Guest]

Pride in London organisers fend off pinkwashing claims
30,000 people to take part in march that critics say has become too commercialised

1 million attendance just announced via Sky News.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 91631.html


London Pride 2019: Partying against prejudice as 1.5 million people sing and dance at rainbow-filled parade

The LGBT+ community descended on the capital to both celebrate the community’s history and culture, and rally against ongoing challenges, inequalities and discrimination

[LordRaven]

As long as people had a great day and enjoyed the atmosphere then that is good.

[calitom]

As long as people had a great day and enjoyed the atmosphere then that is good.

They even have a gay High School now in New York City.
The football team isnt very good..

..but the half Time show;););)

[xtras1]

As long as people had a great day and enjoyed the atmosphere then that is good.

They even have a gay High School now in New York City.
The football team isnt very good..

..but the half Time show;););)

Wow does that mean new York are finally catching up with the times

[Fletch]

As long as people had a great day and enjoyed the atmosphere then that is good.

They even have a gay High School now in New York City.
The football team isnt very good..

..but the half Time show;););)

Wow does that mean new York are finally catching up with the times

Obviously not if they have to have a designated school for Gay people.

[xtras1]

As long as people had a great day and enjoyed the atmosphere then that is good.

They even have a gay High School now in New York City.
The football team isnt very good..

..but the half Time show;););)

Wow does that mean new York are finally catching up with the times

Obviously not if they have to have a designated school for Gay people.

Tiny steps

[calitom]

As long as people had a great day and enjoyed the atmosphere then that is good.

They even have a gay High School now in New York City.
The football team isnt very good..

..but the half Time show;););)

Wow does that mean new York are finally catching up with the times

what about the halftime show?

[calitom]

As long as people had a great day and enjoyed the atmosphere then that is good.

They even have a gay High School now in New York City.
The football team isnt very good..

..but the half Time show;););)

Wow does that mean new York are finally catching up with the times

what about the halftime show?

[calitom]

As long as people had a great day and enjoyed the atmosphere then that is good.

They even have a gay High School now in New York City.
The football team isnt very good..

..but the half Time show;););)

Wow does that mean new York are finally catching up with the times

what about the halftime show?

[Stooo]

Made me grin

[McAz]

Made me grin

Ooooh bold!

[Stooo]

Made me grin

Ooooh bold!

You can hear the voices

[McAz]

Made me grin

Ooooh bold!

You can hear the voices

My missus just said the very same thing.


How the hell they got away with their stuff back then remains a mystery to me - wonderful stuff.