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Liverpool’s Homotopia festival and Police misled into publishing false Manchester Pride parade figure

GS — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:59:37 +0000

Last summer, Trading Standards told the organisers of Manchester Pride to cease publishing material that claimed crowd figures of 200,000 or 250,000 people at the Saturday Pride parade.
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Manchester Pride is a marketing event run by ‘dictators’ says chairman of Village Business Association

GS — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:34:54 +0000

In a surprise development last night, Phil Burke the chairman of the Village Business Association issued a statement.

Pride organisers caught out by youth video footage as they attempt to censor parade entry

GS — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:34:46 +0000

Pride performer stayed in £739-a-night hotel suite

GS — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:33:56 +0000

BBC publishes over-inflated Pride attendance figure

GS — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:27:27 +0000

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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EXCLUSIVE: Manchester Pride ‘unable to substantiate’ claims made in press interview with Chairman

GS — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:30:16 +0000

Manchester Pride has admitted that it is unable to explain figures that were quoted by its Chairman Andrew Stokes in an interview that appeared on the rainbownetwork.com (gaydarnation.com) website in August 2007.

Security guards refuse free entry to the Manchester Pride AIDS candlelight vigil (video)

GS — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:35:54 +0000

FULL VIDEO REPORT COMING SOON

The candlelight AIDS vigil on the final night of Manchester Pride has always been a key event and, to some people, the most important part.

Drinking rules can be ‘relaxed’ for footballs fans but not for gay events

GS — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:19 +0000

For years the LGBT community has been told that one of the reasons why the gay village must be fenced off and ticket-only during Manchester Pride is due to the bylaws concerning public drinking.

Now, once again, that policy has been exposed for the fraud it always was.

Manchester Pride 2008: increased ticket prices revealed

GS — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:16:33 +0000

More ticket prices prices have been announced for Manchester Pride 2008. Note that in many cases tickets are ‘subject to a booking and transaction fee’ (see below).

‘EARLY BIRD’ TICKET PRICE UP BY 25%