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Quintease · 07-08-2012, 05:48 PM

We almost lost our Pride this year. Due to a colossal mistake by the Pride organisers we found out one week before the day that Pride could possibly be cancelled.

Pride denied this.

The next day we found out they were in serious financial difficulty and as a result, Pride was going to be massively scaled down. No floats and no parties in the local gay area.

It gets worse.

Our mayor then tried to stop one of our iconic members of the community from speaking at pride, an opposing politician had to step in to overcome the ban, then the same mayor blocked two high profile sponsors from solving the finance problem. Basically our mayor and his party were trying to kill pride.

Despite that we marched! There were a mile and a half of us marching right through town. Bars in the local gay area defied a council ban and played music and allowed their patrons to party outside. The 'official' pride area was packed. My favourite gay charity gave away 3,000 stickers and almost 2,000 flyers in just over an hour. It was an amazing day.

Still on a high the next day I looked on Facebook. Of course THERE were the people complaining that instead of pride they'd felt shame. Instead of having a good day they'd wished it had all been cancelled. And instead of wishing to support pride and everything it stood for, they were angry that the organisers, charities and volunteers had fought so hard to keep it going ahead.

People really piss me off.

07-08-2012, 05:48 PM	#18
Quintease Member How Do You Identify?: Rainbow femme Preferred Pronoun?: princess Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 514 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 508 Thanked 1,816 Times in 417 Posts Rep Power: 10345577	Pride against those who would take it away. We almost lost our Pride this year. Due to a colossal mistake by the Pride organisers we found out one week before the day that Pride could possibly be cancelled. Pride denied this. The next day we found out they were in serious financial difficulty and as a result, Pride was going to be massively scaled down. No floats and no parties in the local gay area. It gets worse. Our mayor then tried to stop one of our iconic members of the community from speaking at pride, an opposing politician had to step in to overcome the ban, then the same mayor blocked two high profile sponsors from solving the finance problem. Basically our mayor and his party were trying to kill pride. Despite that we marched! There were a mile and a half of us marching right through town. Bars in the local gay area defied a council ban and played music and allowed their patrons to party outside. The 'official' pride area was packed. My favourite gay charity gave away 3,000 stickers and almost 2,000 flyers in just over an hour. It was an amazing day. Still on a high the next day I looked on Facebook. Of course THERE were the people complaining that instead of pride they'd felt shame. Instead of having a good day they'd wished it had all been cancelled. And instead of wishing to support pride and everything it stood for, they were angry that the organisers, charities and volunteers had fought so hard to keep it going ahead. People really piss me off. __________________ It is not worth an intelligent person's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.