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BBC News
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
'Lifeline' Lincoln Pride to go ahead after appeal for help
A "lifeline" pride event will go ahead this year but will look "a little different", organisers have Pride, which was headlined by Liberty X and attracted more than 8,500 people last year, had been at risk of cancellation due to financial issues. It will be staged at Orchard Street Car Park on 16 August, but will no longer include a said they had been working hard behind the scenes to put on the event as their "commitment to celebrating", with new features including a dance terrace. In April, event director Arran Hart said the committee had scaled back its costs from £85,000 to £50,000 in a bid to save turned to the community for support because "many of our usual sponsors are unfortunately unable to help due to budget constraints".Organisers are staging a Lincoln Pride Gala Fundraiser on 27 July at The Drill, Free School Lane. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
Spectator
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
End of the rainbow: Pride's fall can't come soon enough
Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon's little march for lesbians and gay men. Then it became a day, then a week, then a month, and now it spreads throughout the summer, accompanied by all manner of feast days and 'visibility' events. Its expansion coincided with the addition of all the letters after the first three. This is when it became a jamboree not only of boring homosexuality – very old hat – but just about anything else that its purveyors consider unconventional, ranging from wearing wigs to not fancying any kind of sex at all. Every peccadillo was deemed worthy of a flag and a float. But the wheels finally seem to be coming off the Pride clown car. What was mushrooming is now shrivelling. Several newly Reform-led councils – including Kent and Durham – have taken down Pride flags from their municipal properties and won't be flying them during the high days, or any others. The Times reports that Whitehall has banned civil servants from buying Pride lanyards. This is supposedly part of a 'crackdown on waste' – but it's conveniently timely. Pride events themselves are dissolving. Several celebrations during Pride Month, which begins on Sunday, have faced financial difficulties. Lincoln, Plymouth, Southampton and Hereford have all either been abandoned, cut back, or had to rely on emergency bailouts from wealthy private backers. 'Many of our usual sponsors are unfortunately unable to help due to budget constraints,' the organiser of Lincoln Pride told the BBC last month. His counterpart in Worthing reported that 'he had unsuccessfully been trying to secure sponsorship since September and warned the event might be cancelled unless that changes'.
BBC News
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Plea issued to save annual 'lifeline' Lincoln Pride event
The director of Lincoln Pride is calling for help to prevent the "lifeline" LGBTQ+ event from being annual celebration, which attracted more than 8,500 people last year, is at risk of not going ahead this year due to financial a statement, Lincoln Pride said it had "turned to the community" for support as "many of our usual sponsors are unfortunately unable to help due to budget constraints".Arran Hart, director of community engagement for the event, said the committee had scaled back its costs from £85,000 to £50,000 in a bid to save it. The celebratiom, due to take place on 16 August, includes a parade through the city before the main event, with stage performances at Tentercroft Street car Hart said the event's infrastructure alone cost £45,000."All these things rapidly add up, and that's before you put a single person on that stage," he said."The event could happen if we had £50,000 but it wouldn't be on the same scale."But he added: "We're a big believer that Pride should happen, even if it means we have to change the format." Mr Hart said attendees included people on days out."But some of them will there because, like 16-year-old me, it will be their lifeline for the year that makes them feel not alone," he said."We've come so far in a county that has traditionally not always been as accepting."Joshua Wells, the City of Lincoln Council's portfolio holder for inclusive economic growth, said: "We'll continue to work with [Lincoln Pride organisers] and help them find other options financially through this process." Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Plea issued to save annual 'lifeline' Pride event
The director of Lincoln Pride is calling for help to prevent the "lifeline" LGBTQ+ event from being cancelled. The annual celebration, which attracted more than 8,500 people last year, is at risk of not going ahead this year due to financial issues. In a statement, Lincoln Pride said it had "turned to the community" for support as "many of our usual sponsors are unfortunately unable to help due to budget constraints". Arran Hart, director of community engagement for the event, said the committee had scaled back its costs from £85,000 to £50,000 in a bid to save it. The celebratiom, due to take place on 16 August, includes a parade through the city before the main event, with stage performances at Tentercroft Street car park. Mr Hart said the event's infrastructure alone cost £45,000. "All these things rapidly add up, and that's before you put a single person on that stage," he said. "The event could happen if we had £50,000 but it wouldn't be on the same scale." But he added: "We're a big believer that Pride should happen, even if it means we have to change the format." Mr Hart said attendees included people on days out. "But some of them will there because, like 16-year-old me, it will be their lifeline for the year that makes them feel not alone," he said. "We've come so far in a county that has traditionally not always been as accepting." Joshua Wells, the City of Lincoln Council's portfolio holder for inclusive economic growth, said: "We'll continue to work with [Lincoln Pride organisers] and help them find other options financially through this process." Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Influx of hate ahead of Pride - Organisers Boston to hold its first Pride event this summer Thousands in Lincoln for city's Pride event Lincoln Pride City of Lincoln Council
