Pride Before the Fall
Across the country love for Pride events is waning. Why is it that our allyship with LGBTQ+ rights isn't as strong as it once was and what has the trans debate got to do with it?
Across the country love for Pride events is waning. Councils are pulling funding saying that cash is better spent on potholes and emptying the bins and big companies, once eager to be associated with the Pride are withdrawing their support - and money.
Last year the company that ran Manchester Pride went out of business owing millions of pounds, the bars of the city's world famous gay village on Canal Street are funding a a new grass roots celebration. Across the country Prides are smaller, less corporate and in some cases just cancelled altogether
Darren Milby asks why it is that our allyship with LBTBQ+ rights seems to be weaker and investigates what the trans debate has got to do with it?
Producer and Presenter: Darren Milby
Technical Producer: Nat Stokes
Executive Producer: Richard McIlroy
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- Sun 16 Aug 202613:30BBC Radio 4
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