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Manchester Pride charity figure for 2011

GS — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:38:11 +0000

Manchester Pride has announced a figure of £105,000 for good causes.

However, only £98,000 of this amount was raised during the ten day festival. The other £7,000 came from fundraising at the Manchester Pride Dinner which took place in September 2010 — almost a year before.
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Rewriting history to promote the gay village and Manchester Pride

GS — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 02:10:47 +0000

You may have heard about the notorious raid on a drag ball at a temperance hall in Manchester in 1880? An article in The Guardian (Village People, 7 August 2004) refers to the incident, but it begins with the scene just over one hundred years later.

In 1988 “Canal Street in Manchester city centre was still a red-light district,” writes the author. Going on to describe how police officers patrolled its “dank alleys”.

“This kind of surveillance was nothing new in the area,” she continues.
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Free Manchester Pride alternative on Saturday afternoon

GS — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:52:16 +0000

Manchester will ‘reclaim the scene’ with a free picnic after the Saturday Pride parade.

There will be free food, activities and performers from 16.00 onwards. It’s all happening outside UMIST on the grass area at the junction of Sackville Street and Granby Row. Near the Retro Bar and the Spar shop on Sackville Street.

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It’s non-profit and any money raised goes to help LGBT people in Iraq.

This looks like being fun and quite a big event. We hope to have some video coverage here from Sunday.

LIBERATION 2009 MARCH

On Monday, the closing night of Manchester Pride, there will be a Liberation 2009 march from All Saints Park to the gay village. It starts at 18.30.

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

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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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.

Shopping victims

GS — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:41:34 +0000

I was looking through my high-definition video footage of the 2007 Manchester Pride parade and found this frame which seems to sums up much of what is wrong with our community today.

Manchester Pride 2007 raised just £95,000 for good causes

GS — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:38:06 +0000

For a second year running, Manchester Pride has raised one of the lowest amounts in its 17 year history. Just £95,000.

This is despite the highest ticket prices ever (some people paid £18) and more than 40,000 tickets sold according to a report on the LGF website.