Another Pride founder is a child sex offender

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Apparently this is the 8th one in the last three years.

The founder of Belfast Pride, Tina McCombe, had carried out all sorts of criminal activity, including procuring a child to be raped and stabbing a man. It only emerged after he died earlier this month.

Several Pride events wrote a glowing tribute to him - they've all been deleted now.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/belfast-pride-march-founder-hailed-as-hero-was-accused-of-pimping-out-schoolgirl/a/152323557.html

Bloody hell! The gay community should be absolutely outraged that these criminal men infiltrated the movement.
All the work they did to distance themselves from the accusations of child abuse and perversion being intrinsic to homosexuality.

Ah, ok. Not a gay bloke. A common or garden old man perving on women and children. While wearing a dress in this chap’s case.

I wonder what it is about Pride in its current form that’s attracting so many abusive exhibitionists?

You've answered your own question.

How many Pride celebrations are there?

Where is your information about the other 7?

Does this reflect a greater criminality than the general population?

Are Pride events private events that present greater risks to participants?

That would be the beginning of my critical reasoning OP

Do you have those answers?

Otherwise its just tarring a whole community of people isn't it?

Otherwise its just tarring a whole community of people isn't it?

It’s reporting on something that seems to happen rather often. But if you’re think it’s tarring a whole community, perhaps you
think there’s something in it.

My critical reasoning goes towards the lack of understanding of safeguarding evident at many Pride events. In the old days of the terrorism, it would have been called a soft target. No visible rigorous safeguarding, leads to it being targeted by those whose intent is malicious.

Ffs they make me sick! All these guys were desperate to tear apart safeguarding boundaries and checks and we all knew why. Their enablers should be held accountable but I have no doubt not a single feather will be ruffled. Disgusting .

@PrizedPickledPopcorn "I wonder what it is about Pride in its current form that’s attracting so many abusive exhibitionists?"

Because it's all about men isn't it. Men wanting to do exactly as they please, which is par for the course in the gay and straight communities. They've been testing the waters for years and now they can live out their kinks/fantasies in plain sight. They've been systematically allowed to strip away safeguarding under an untouchable banner.

A bunch of men who were really into smashing boundaries and trying to make it acceptable for fetishes to be publicly displayed, turned out to be wrong uns?

Well, knock me down with a feather (boa).

They’ve co opted oppression and used it to abuse.

Oh look. Another man in a dress turns out to be a deviant. What a terrible surprise. This never happens.

Stephen Ireland- Founder of Pride in Surrey, jailed for 24 years
Tina McCombe- Founder of Belfast Price- Procured a child
Amelia Connelly- Officer at Stirling Pride- sexualised images of a child
Ashley Boyd- Chair of Swindon Pride
Andrew Way- Founder of Welshpool Pride
Jake Radwell- Southampton People's Pride
Kizzy Wimbridge- Newbury Pride
David Sutton- Surry Pride

Don't you get it? Because safeguarding goes out of the window when the 'Pride' word is mentioned, perverts will use this. It will make life worse for gay, lesbian, bi and trans people. We will go back to the bad old days when people thought gay=nonce. Stupid people will think that all gay/trans people are predators because clever, devious perverts saw that they could act with impunity because if anyone pointed out safeguarding issues, they just shouted BIGOT! TRANSPHOBIA!
2 lesbian women tried and tried to point out that Stephen Ireland was the worst kind of predator and they were ignored. Children sustained further harm because no-one wanted to listen to the 'bigots' who knew what safeguarding meant.

There's about 150 main pride events and another 100 or so subsidiary pride events like Trans Pride Southampton.

So let's say there are 250 Pride events.

On average, each Pride event has about 10 officers, ie a chair, operations lead etc.

So let's say there are about 2,500 pride officers.

In just the last three years, four of those events' founders have been found guilty of serious child sexual abuse offences. Another four (a chair, an operations lead etc) have been convicted or charged with serious child sexual abuse offences.

I've worked for a company that had a few thousand employees and over 150 divisions.

If 4 of the division heads and 4 other senior employees had been convicted of paedophilia I'd expect it to be all over the news and our CEO to be issuing us with regular statements as to what is going on.

But, shockingly, this is how our national broadcaster covers this story.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/member-neo-nazi-anti-drag-150506618.html

A gender critical man who protested drag shows along with other gender critical people was a neo-Nazi who was arrested for CP.

Surely the gender critical community should be outraged at this? (Funny enough, they were completely silent)

Very much this.

Also, getting lost in all this is the financial scandals - Manchester, Brighton and London pride events have all become embroiled in serious fraud cases in the last couple of years.

And these are only the ones we know about - it's quite possible that there are many more that don't get reported on. For example, one officer at a pride last year quit and said the chair was using the position to abuse children, and it never led to anything. I just happened to see his post on social media. It's not helped that so many pride officers change their names, which makes it harder to link them to convictions.

a) that's got nothing to do with what this thread is about.

b) that wasn't in this country or in the last two or three years.

c) nothing in the article says this man has anything to do with gender critical people.

But apart from that, and quite a few other points, thank you for your brilliant response

He’s in the USA not UK for a start

It is relevant.

If people are going to cherry-pick cases where someone associated with a certain movement has apparently done something bad, others can play at that game too.

Gosh, how many ways can you be confused?
For a start, images of child abuse are not ‘CP’.
Secondly, the man’s a neo nazi AND SO abused drag queen story hour.
Most importantly, surely the biggest issue with this man is the images of child abuse? Funny how you place that second to the neo nazi stuff

One doesn’t have to be a nazi or a child abuser to see the issue with drag queen storytime.

Interesting comments

https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/1tkhjck/belfast_pride_march_founder_hailed_as_hero_was/

Pattern recognition.

Wilful disingenuity about it does absolutely nothing to help. It really doesn't. If you actually are or care about LGBT+whatever people, then you need to loudly and clearly separate yourself and homosexuality/transgenderism/whatever from sexual abuse of minors, uncontrolled boundary violation, perversion, depravity and stupid blind denial.

The time for drawing that line was years ago actually, and I say that as an LGB person myself, but there was so much whining and whingeing about 'you mustn't say that because Reasons'. The general public now has repeated, patterned reason to be suspicious and it was NOT the LGB who did this. The TQ movement needs to be loudly and clearly condemning this and separating themselves from it, not shouting at people for having eyes.

Where does it say he was gender-critical? He was a Neo Nazi and didn't like drag queens - I bet he hates feminists too, including the gender critical ones!

The article is a bit erratic, really hard to follow the time line. Flashing the kids before he joined the army? Left the army in ‘75? Transitioned before or after the flashing? It’s all a bit murky.