Surrey Pride cancelled for this year due to lack of funding

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8w739g8y7o

Surrey Pride has been postponed until 2027, organisers have announced.
Pride in Surrey said rising costs and a decline in pledged corporate sponsorship had made it "impossible to proceed" with the event.
The parade and festival in Guildford were due to take place on 8 August.
Organisers said in a statement posted on Facebook they were making the announcement with "great sadness".
"This year, many Pride events across the country have faced similar cancellations," they wrote.
"We sincerely appreciate your understanding during this difficult time."
It comes after Surrey County Council withdrew its official support for the 2025 event, meaning its staff and services did not officially attend.
The local authority said at the time Pride in Surrey was not "truly representative" of the whole LGBTQ+ community following "concerns" that had been raised.
Stephen Ireland, the former founder of the county event, was jailed for raping a 12-year-old boy in June 2025.
The BBC understands this was a factor in the authority's decision, although it had not actively sponsored Pride since 2021.

Given its abysmal record on safeguarding, this is good news for the people of Surrey, especially the more vulnerable ones who were so badly let down by all concerned before.

Were any of these councillors past members of Pride in Surrey, perchance?

Oh good grief!!

Not sure - but don’t think so

Me too!

Campaigning and marching to highlight the rights and equality of Lesbians, Gay men, and Bi people is just as important as campaigning anf marching to highlight the rights and equality of women. In both cases, yes we theoretically have equality under law but those rights are constantly under attack. Homophobia and biphobia have not been eliminated by the equality laws any more than misogyny and VAWG has been eliminated. Campaigning and marching on both fronts will be needed for as long as homophobia, biphobia, misogyny and VAWG exist. The current form of the Pride organisation is not fit for this purpose being fundamentally homophobic in its refusal to accept that homosexual people are not attracted to anyone's "gender identity" if the identity is inside a head attached to the body of a person of the opposite sex to that homosexual person. I hope you wouldn't assert that we don't need feminism any more because women have all the rights we need now, so please don't be equally ridiculous about the needs of homosexual anf bi people.

Campaigning and marching to highlight the rights and equality of Lesbians, Gay men, and Bi people is just as important as campaigning anf marching to highlight the rights and equality of women

But Pride isn't about that anymore, is it?

'Family friendly' Toronto Pride 🤮

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/public-nudity-at-toronto-pride-event-draws-criticism-after-live-television-incident/74602

Once again the excuse the Police give for doing nothing is reminiscent of the 'community cohesion' regarding the rape gangs. Although doing nothing about public nudity is at the less serious end of the Police's 'don't give a fuck' spectrum. According to the comments (some of which are unhinged) this is something that men have been doing for several years. It seems the Police and the organisers are happy to do nothing about it.

I'd like to see their hard drives.

Actually, no. But, we all know that minor acts of "exposure" and voyeurism often lead to more serious crimes.

Cue the naysayers. (I'm sure their hard drives would be very "interesting" as well)

I'd pay good money, however, to see these guys try to walk down the same street in the buff in the middle of a Toronto January! How lucky for them that Pride Month is June.

Maybe it's Canada? When I was in Ottawa a couple of years ago I saw a slim blonde lady in her twenties walking across a crowded shopping street absolutely stark bollock naked. I wasn't sure whether it was performance art, she was stoned out of her mind or a was militant naturist but she certainly made an impression. Of course being Canada everybody was extremely polite & took no notice.