Bye bye Operation Fundraiser
The Manchester Pride website reports that Operation Fundraiser will be ‘will be hanging up its buckets’ this year.
charity
Manchester Pride exaggerates Parade crowd figures by 500%
250,000 do not watch the Parade as the organisers claim. The true figure is ‘tens of thousands’ and here is the proof.
Manchester Pride 2006 raises one of the lowest-ever amounts for good causes
Pride is not a charity event anymore says taxman It seems this is being kept oh-so-quiet in the press and online. I can see nothing about it on the Operation Fundraiser, George House Trust or Manchester Pride websites.
An inconvenient truth: Gay Manchester was better 20 years ago
I get tired of newspaper articles that make out that the gay ‘scene’ in Manchester used to be so seedy and bad years ago, but now it is so wonderful. It just isn’t true. Take this article from 2003 which appeared in The Manchester Evening News — a newspaper that can be relied on to … An inconvenient truth: Gay Manchester was better 20 years ago
There’s a £50 fee to be in the Manchester Pride parade this year
If you want to take part in Manchester’s annual gay pride parade this year you will have to pay £50 + VAT. No, this isn’t a fee for businesses — they already pay more than £1000 to be in the parade.
9m African children have no mum due to AIDS
Mother’s Day is next Sunday, 26 March. But, according to the British charity Save the Children, nine million African children have lost their mum to AIDS…
ads
archive
bbc
britain
british
Buildings
business
canal street
city centre
city council
community
consumer
cost
events
film
flash
free
Fun
Gay
gay village
guardian
History
hiv
LGBT
Manchester
manchester city council
manchester pride
marketing
media
money
online
parade
photo
Photography
police
Politics
pride
public
television
trans
tv
video
war
work
youtube