77 reported violent and sexual crimes in Manchester’s gay village in November 2018
The figure of 77 reported violent and sexual crimes in one month is probably the highest ever. And no one really cares. See the crime stats here.
Category Archives: Gay
Leaving Manchester. Discussing Legends, power, Gay Village and a hurt city
A video from Manchester Shield which really sums up Manchester currently. The corruption, drab inappropriate development and poor-quality shifty politicians. The only part I perhaps disagree with is that the gay village can be saved. I don’t think so. Since the 1990s it has been a marketing scam designed to enclose and exploit us. Far […]
Archives reveal “regular, ranting bigotry about gays” in the pages of the Manchester Evening News
In 1989 the MEN called for an “awful” floral display in Piccadilly Gardens commemorating Stonewall to be “destroyed.” Scene Out, August 1989. An article in Scene Out magazine, August 1989 issue, with the headline “Evening paper degrades community”, reports on how a floral tribute in Piccadilly Gardens to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall […]
The LGBT Foundation’s misleading “researchers’ guide” to LGBT history, funded by the Heritage Lottery
Manchester’s LGBT Foundation published its document “Unlocking A Hidden History – A Researchers’ Guide To Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Historical Sources In Manchester”, back in 2013. You can see it here (PDF). It was funded by the Heritage Lottery. Over recent years the Heritage Lottery Fund has given out around a quarter of a […]
Questions over Manchester Pride day tickets being withdrawn
The censors at Manchester Pride have been busy removing valid questions about day tickets from their Facebook page today.
As it happens: people walk into Manchester Pride 2016 without a wristband
People are entering the gay village successfully without a wristband during Manchester Pride 2016 and are reporting back what happens. This follows a ruling by the Local Government Ombudsman in April 2015.
Manchester Pride misleads again — in its latest accounts
Manchester Pride’s accounts for year ending 2015 state that 43,000 tickets sold that year was the highest number ever. In fact the Community Report issued by Mardi Gras in 1999 states that sales in 1998 were 51,000 and 45,000 in 1999. Pride’s own 2009 accounts state that attendance was “over” 42,000 that year. The accounts […]