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Bye bye Operation Fundraiser

Admin | Sunday 29 April 2007

The Manchester Pride website reports that Operation Fundraiser will be ‘will be hanging up its buckets’ this year.

Manchester Pride 2007 poster — no mention of gay, lesbian, bi or transgender (video)

Admin | Thursday 26 April 2007

The poster for Manchester Pride 2007 is out and about. But nowhere on it will you see the words ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’, ‘bi’ or ‘transgender’. The nearest you’ll get is the phrase ‘LGBT charities’.

Free wifi wireless hotspots in Manchester

Admin | Sunday 25 February 2007

A useful map of places that offer free wifi in Manchester city centre. There’s talk of free wireless internet across the whole of Greater Manchester by next summer. Which will be great if they can do it. It would totally change the way that I work, that’s for sure. Though I wonder if restricting it … Free wifi wireless hotspots in Manchester

Manchester Pride exaggerates Parade crowd figures by 500%

Admin | Friday 2 February 2007

250,000 do not watch the Parade as the organisers claim. The true figure is ‘tens of thousands’ and here is the proof.

Liberation 91 protest, Manchester, UK 1991 (video)

Admin | Monday 13 November 2006

Don’t believe the big fibs that are put around by commercial vested interests today. They make out that Manchester was some kind of gay wasteland before Canal Street took off in the early 1990’s.

An inconvenient truth: Gay Manchester was better 20 years ago

Admin | Thursday 21 September 2006

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

Admin | Wednesday 19 July 2006

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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.

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