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Outnorthwest front covers. Who knows who?

GS — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:09:31 +0000

Photo: by Vera Kratochvil.

In the small pond that is gay Manchester, a couple of dozen people back-pat and promote each other. Publicity and awards are given.
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What The Pink Paper didn’t tell you in its LGF funding cuts article. And why…

GS — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:04:03 +0000

Update: (25 October 2011): part of this article has been removed while further research is done.

“Stockport NHS cut gay charity by 100 per cent” was the emotive headline in The Pink Paper on 26 May 2011.
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Cruising crackdown prompts call for a ‘tolerance zone’

GS — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:10:05 +0000

The police and Manchester City Council have announced the latest ‘crackdown’ on cruising in the city’s canal area. The Lesbian and Gay Foundation has promoted this in an article on its website, listing the various jail sentences that cruisers might incur (supposedly).
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LGF receives award from hardship fund / Manchester Pride announces 2009 community fund

GS — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:08:25 +0000

The Lesbian and Gay Foundation has been awarded £121,165 from a hardship fund that is run by the Community Development Foundation.
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The Independent newspaper premieres Alan Turing radio drama

GS — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:18:20 +0000

This weekend The Independent will premiere a new radio play about scientist Alan Turing on its website. More details can be found in this LGF news article.

Lou takes me to task

GS — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:17:07 +0000

Lou has written about some of my criticism of Manchester Pride, the Lesbian and Gay Foundation and what she describes as my ‘legitimisation of the BNP’:

When Pride is a Protest

G7′s legitimisation of the BNP

G7 v LGF

I’ve posted some comments.

Lesbian and Gay Foundation: the beginning of the end?

GS — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:50:34 +0000

* Employment tribunal reaches decision

* Funding crisis: Outnorthwest magazine slashed

* An NHS-funded registered charity that engages in politics

* 62% of the annual income goes to pay 23 employees

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LGF Annual Report and Financial Statements: year ending 31 March 2008

GS — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:14:41 +0000

Here’s a PDF copy of the Lesbian and Gay Foundation’s Annual Report and Financial Statements, for the year ending 2008.

More than a quarter of the LGF’s income comes from one primary care trust (North Manchester) and about another 50% from other primary care trusts and health bodies. Which are exactly the kind of things that are going to be cut back in bankrupt Britain in the next couple of years if you ask me.

The LGF blows £75,000 a year on rent for its Princess Street offices. Time to move somewhere cheaper? A portacabin on the Bloom Street car-park perhaps?

Staff wages cost £592,901 in 2008. With another £58,572 spent on National Insurance and £43,423 on pensions.

There was a cost of £61,589 to generate voluntary income of £100,736.

It’s interesting reading. Take a look…

Manchester’s Lesbian and Gay Foundation faces accusations from more than ten past employees

GS — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:33:44 +0000

At an employment tribunal, to begin next Monday, two former employees of Manchester’s LGF will claim that they were victimised.

Queer activists invade the Manchester Pride 2008 balloon launch (video)

GS — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:45:36 +0000

Watch the six minute video (super-widescreen format!). It includes two minutes of exclusive archive footage of August Bank Holiday 1991.

A trailer to embed and share can be found here on YouTube.

The real facts and figures behind Pride can be found here.

Manchester Pride 2008 opened last night. A group of 18 year olds gathered to
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