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Manchester Pride Bullies The Protest...

Subject: Pride Update

Hi everyone,

After the feedback from everyone, I sent the following message to the Pride organisers, and have recieved their response, shown below. They make their position pretty clear and I think it will be hard to have our 'pride is a protest' ideology if we are part of the march itself. What do people think we should do?

Hi Katy,

The placcards/banners will have messages such as 'Pride not profit',
'pride is a protest', 'queer is not a dirty word', 'in 7 countries it
is punishable by death to be gay' and lotss about how we shouldn't be

Pride is a protest! Stonewall was a riot!

Info-sharing, skillsharing, help + advice for setting up your own DIY pride events wherever you live; queer food for thought

Thinking about taking part in the parade but wish it was like old times where marching for our rights came before entering as walking advertisements for greedy corporate sponsors and boistrous self-publisist gay charities?

Join us in declaring "Pride IS a Protest"!

Taking inspiration from Birmingham's amazing Pride is a protest event, there is now an organised group of queer activists working to ensure a similar event takes place during the Manchester Pride Parade on Saturday 23 August 2008.

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