East End Gay Pride has been cancelled, the organisers have announced. In a statement this morning, they blamed “personal attacks” and a “personal vendetta” against them by local gay campaigners. The march was due to be held on April 2nd as … Continue reading
One of the organisers of East London Gay Pride resigned today after it was revealed that he had been involved with the English Defence League. Raymond Berry helped found the far-right group and remains involved in groups including Stop the Islamification … Continue reading
Next month’s East End Gay Pride should be cancelled because it will cause “community tension”, it has been claimed. Some local gay campaigners say the march, in east London, will cause tensions between gay people and Muslims. The march, to be … Continue reading
A Bristol MP has written to police and the council urging them to scrap plans to allow a march by right-wing extremists to go ahead on the same day as the city’s Pride march. The English Defence League (EDL) is … Continue reading
“As a British Asian, as a British Muslim, I know what it’s like to be part of a minority. But minorities have since the beginning of time been woven into the fabric of this borough – and what makes us … Continue reading
The July issue of the gay magazine Out in the City includes a feature article on the English Defence League by James Montague, based on his participation in a couple of EDL protests back in November last year. Masquerading as a … Continue reading
Banner at an English Defence League ‘support Israel’ demonstration in October 2010 What a popular man Peter Tatchell is. His article on the Mohammed Hasnath case, titled “Gay Free Zone conviction is disturbing”, which originally appeared on the New Statesman … Continue reading
Gay rights campaigners have urged mosque leaders in east London to ban homophobic clerics from using their premises, following a 21% rise in gay hate crime in the area. Activists, including journalist Julie Bindel and Pride trustee Colm Howard-Lloyd, said … Continue reading
Tory blogger Graeme Archer, who was recently awarded the Orwell Blog Prize, has written an unpleasant article for the Daily Telegraph (“The East End villains who thrive behind a veil of multiculturalism”) in which he asserts that the “increasing Islamisation” of London’s … Continue reading
Decolonize Queer has an important statement on the so-called East End Gay Pride march.