[Imc-uk-features] feature proposal - pride 2007

[Ben]

Pride in London and Beyond

photo: http://ie.indymedia.org/attachments/jun2007/dublin_pride03.jpg

This years London Gay Pride saw one of the biggest turnouts ever  
despite two factors that would have all but destroyed other events.  
Firstly the less than efficient al-Quaida wannabe bombers planted two  
‘devices’ on the route of the march two days before. This could have  
led the Police to cancel the procession or a least reroute it through  
a less glamorous part of town. Then there was the rain that tipped  
down by the bucket full from beginning to end and  the pathetic  
little protests by the National Front and their brethren from the  
Christian Right. Fortunately the LGBT community and their supporters  
are not so easily put off and beer and broll'ies were the order of  
the day, with the pink pound ensuring plenty of both flowed through  
the damp streets of London.

However, marchers carrying banners with the word 'queer' displayed on  
them were forbidden from displaying them at yesterday's Gay Pride  
event in London. Blundering cops decided that the word was  
'offensive', and someone wearing a t-shirt which read 'anarchists  
make better lovers' was also ordered to cover it up as this was also  
deemed 'offensive' by those arbiters of good taste the London Met.  
Politics is not allowed at Pride it seems, leaving more room for  
corporate back-slapping about how right on companies like Lloyds Bank  
and British Airways are.

main report links

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/375307.html  Pride 2007.  
Pitiful counter demos.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/375290.html Pride 2007 photos  
and report.

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/374805.html Queers Banned at  
Pride!

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/375234.html British Airways  
Shame London Pride

pride 2007 reports elsewhere

http://ie.indymedia.org/article/83222 Dublin Gay Pride 2007

http://ireland.indymedia.org/article/83136 Gay Pride in Riga, Latvia  
2007

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/78301/index.php  
Chicago's Biggest Pride Parade Ever! Gives Warm Welcome to  
Progressive Contingent

http://bayarea.indymedia.org/newsitems/2007/06/21/18429299.php 2007  
Pride Weekend in San Francisco

https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/6925/index.php Israel -  
we are all queers