The Manchester Pride website reports that Operation Fundraiser will be ‘will be hanging up its buckets’ this year.
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Have you ever experienced that annoying situation where, every time you press ‘play’ or ’stop’ on your video player, it switches the television from the AV input to a TV channel? Sometimes it can be a real pain in the bum when, for example, you’re rewinding a tape and want to see the onscreen counter.
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UPDATE (October 2008): this podcast has ‘retired’ into the archives. I’ve left the production notes below.
Chris joins me to talk about:
* Queer Up North: Europe’s leading queer arts festival which starts here in Manchester in the next few days, with events throughout May.
* Our show Bargain Hunters: why we haven’t made any more since June.
* The TV phone scandals that have engulfed Britain recently and the recent BBC Panorama programme on the subject.
* The Basement Social Centre
* The Conservative Party
* Scally wear: we find out, does Chris own a hoody or any trackies?
* Doctor Who and Torchwood
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…says person who read Home Secretary John Reid’s latest attempt.
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It comes as a breath of fresh air to realise that there are still good people around in Manchester who are not focused on relieving you of as much cash as possible.
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The poster for Manchester Pride 2007 is out and about. But nowhere on it will you see the words ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’, ‘bi’ or ‘transgender’. The nearest you’ll get is the phrase ‘LGBT charities’.
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This is an update on this entry. Hopefully this will be the last time I write about my eyes for a while.
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A notice has appeared on the wire fence that surrounds the land at the junction of Princess Street and Whitworth Street. This is the proposed site for a controversial eleven-storey building that, opponents say, will cast a shadow across Manchester’s gay village.
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