Surrey Pride cancelled for this year due to lack of funding

They don't any more, but if, having achieved what they set out to achieve, they stopped, then the groups who support them would no longer have an excuse for blagging money out of the general public and out of organisations like the Liberal Party and local councils in order to fund the marches.

It is quite usual for campaigns which want to achieve this or that aim to be set up, get what they were after, and then rather than gracefully dissolving their campaign to continue, asking for something different and raising money for that instead, for the sake of the organisers' egos. That sense of self-importance is deeply addictive.

Of course, in some cases it's more sinister than that; Surrey Pride, for instance, with all that lovely access to children who've had their awareness of wrong subverted.

We were proud, in 1971. I for one no longer am: that organisation has had its day, and become sadly despicable in too many cases.

I really wouldn't expend this level of energy on behalf of a provincial pride parade that was set up by a child predator. That's why it's experiencing a "decrease in corporate sponsorship".

I'm sure you can find other pride parades to defend that are struggling to find funds to proceed for innocent reasons such as the rise in the cost of living.

NattySnake hi there.
Thank you for engaging with this thread a bit.

You understand the concerns around Surrey Pride, yes?

So did you raise alarm bells about Stephen Ireland @NattySnake ?

Isn't one of Ireland's exes still on the committee of pride in Surry

Fuck them. Just go about your lives.
You dont need to march, you have liberation

"Pride in Surrey" should be totally dissolved. It is extricably linked with Stephen Ireland, child rapist and prolific poster on social media. It was always transparently his personal vehicle for promoting his career as an influencer and media personality.

I'm sure there is a need for a local organisation that represents lesbians, gay men and bisexual people, but someone will need to step up to create an organisation that genuinely does that. It wasn't ever what "Pride in Surrey" was originally about, and it can't pivot to filling that role now.

Good News. Its all so bloody ridiculous.
LOOK AT ME, I'M GAY! Oh feck off

The thing is that gay men, lesbians and bi people marching to demand acceptance and equality was right and good and worthy of pride.

Well they've got equality so why do they need to march?

NattySnake
Have I abused you?

Well, yes.
You have indiscriminately called people on this thread
small-minded
intolerant
spiteful
feeble
stupid

I called those terms of vulgar abuse, myself. I have things I could call you, but having better manners than you do, I shall refrain.

NattySnake

Hopefully the rest of these dull self-indulgent displays of clichéd perversion will follow suit.

Nothing more tedious than an autogynephile in bad shoes mansplaining womanhood. Emperor’s new clothes.

Excellent 👍

I can confirm this account
some lesbians had banners and were shouting such controversial things as

a lesbian is a female homosexual
there is no such thing as a lesbian with a penis

for this crime they were screamed over by a bunch of men who also encouraged a bunch of teenagers to surround the lesbians and drown them out

I got into conversation with a bystander who asked what all the fuss was about, and I explained that some men, who 'identify as women' think they should be welcomed as sexual partners by lesbians, and shame and ostracise any who refuse (putting it mildly). The woman looked shocked and said
'that's a bit...rapey isn't it?' to which I could only agree

I'm really surprised the Pride in Surrey story isn't a bigger one - it should be a national scandal.

The Lib Dems gave taxpayer funding to them last year AFTER the chairman was jailed for raping a child.

And the BBC and police were so desperate to appear inclusive that they helped give a paedophile - who had so many red flags surrounding him - access to vulnerable children.

You haven’t actually said anything though. You’ve just called us all thick and small minded ignoring the fact that the thing we are objecting to is a lack of child safeguarding.

Don't feed the snake.

Is it small minded to not see the need to celebrate men wearing bondage gear, nappies and butt plugs? Maybe it is, you tell me. I doubt anyone on this site particularly cares what they do in private (as long as it's legal and consensual), and it's not illegal to indulge in kinks. So what are they actually celebrating?

So what is it about RAPING CHILDREN that you support Natty?

Happy to be a bigot if it means not standing for men including children in their kinks and lesbians being abused for being lesbians!

Clearly you are a terrible terrible bigot ofcourse.

How very dare you object to such things.