June 2011
2 posts
Hackney Queer Pride March?
Come along and discuss what you would like to see happen this September. Everybody welcome.
THURSDAY 30TH JUNE 2011 7.30PM @ POSITIVE EAST 159 Mile End Road Stepney Green London E1 4AQ
http://www.positiveeast.org.uk/
If you can’t make this there will be a meeting happening almost every Thursday leading up to the action. Please call 020.7791.2855 - They will be able to tell you...
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March 2011
11 posts
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Letter from Local Queer Activists: An Open Letter...
This is a belated statement regarding the East End Gay Pride. As a group of local queers we had felt it was necessary to write something from our perspective, but as we are not part of one singular organisation but were working on this as a group of individuals, this took slightly longer than expected. We invite anyone to support this statement by signing under any name they wish in the...
University of East London: UEL LGBT Society...
Following further deliberation and continuing ambiguity over the nature and extent of EDL support for the East End Gay Pride event, and taking into account the damaging effect this could have on the local community and the society, we’re once again withdrawing our support until there is a greater consensus in support for the event from other LGBT organisations.
UEL LGBT Society does...
STATEMENT FROM OUTRAGE REGUARDING 'EAST END GAY...
Postpone East London Pride
Call for Muslims and LGBTIs to unite against hate
East London Mosque urged to dialogue with LGBTI communities
London – 16 February 2011
Commenting on the planned East London Pride march scheduled for 2 April, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said:
“OutRage! is not supporting East London Pride, following the revelation of links between some of the...
SAFRA PROJECT STATEMENT ON 'EAST END GAY PRIDE'
13/03/2011
The Safra Project has been working on issues affecting Queer Muslims for over a decade. This work includes making the areas in which we live safer for all. Our approach in doing this work seeks to avoid adding to the alienation and further deprivation faced by many in our communities because of ethnic, cultural, class or other material factors.
As...
STATEMENT FROM BENT BARS
Why Bent Bars will not be marching at the East End Gay Pride
(Source: http://www.co-re.org/joomla/index.php/next-meeting/95-bent-bars-news)
The Bent Bars Collective joins with other groups[i] who will not be participating in the East End Gay Pride March[ii] proposed for April 2, 2011, and we wish to publicly express our concerns about this event.
First, we are very concerned about the...
PRESS RELEASE FROM RAINBOW HAMLETS ON 'EAST END...
Jack Gilbert and Rebecca Shaw, co-chairs of Rainbow Hamlets commented on news that EEGP organiser Raymond Berry was a founder member of the EDL as follows: “The correspondence from Raymond Berry that has today come to light is shocking. We are calling on the organisers to withdraw and make way for Pride London to run this event jointly with Rainbow Hamlets, the umbrella for the...
PRESS RELEASE FROM IMAAN REGUARDING 'EAST END GAY...
New, hard evidence emerges, proving EDL and other right wing, anti-Muslim allegiances amongst the organisers of East End Gay Pride, 2 April 2011 Imaan, Europe’s largest support group for LGBTQI Muslims calls for removal of the organisers and for the event to be delivered by Pride London and local communities. We have been following with careful interest the unfolding issues centred on the...
Haringey LGBT Network response to statement issued...
Haringey LGBT Network supports, in full, the open letter issued by OUT EAST which commented on the proposed Pride March planned by East End Gay Pride.
The LGBT people in Haringey, who, like many LGBT people, have experienced homophobic/bi-phobic and trans-phobic struggles at various points in our lives, fully understand the frustrations faced by our sisters and brothers in the East End...
OUT EAST OPEN LETTER SUPPORTERS & CO-SIGNERS
SEE HERE FOR LETTER IN FULL:
http://hackneypridemarch.tumblr.com/post/3787925551/open-letter-from-out-east-to-the-organisers-of-east-end
Individuals: Sarah Colborne, Mary Davis, Equalities officers - Hackney TUC Pav Akhtar, Proud National Committee, PCS Union Sarah Keenan, Oxford Brookes University Josetta Malcom Neil Young (Mayor of London’s LGBT Coordinator, 2005-2008) Julie Waterson,...
Open Letter from Out East to the organisers of...
As a result of the recent homophobic stickers that appeared in Shoreditch, Stoke Newington and broader East London, you have decided to organise a Pride March event on the 2nd April. Out East, with other local LGBTQ community groups, has great concerns about this demonstration and we have decided neither to participate in the event nor to call our supporters to be part of it, and we think it...
August 2010
6 posts
Hackney Pride March - Saturday Night...
Hello,
On Saturday night - OUTEAST the organising body of Hackney Pride March would like to ordian the following parties with a seal of approval! Firstly off a wonderful fundraiser for what sounds like a great project info below!!!
HOT LASER HACKNEY PRIDE ARTY PARTY Saturday 4th September 2010 Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road N16 7XB, London 9 - 4am ￡3 Hot Laser has been created to...
Hackney Pride March - Saturday 4th September 2010
QUEER MARCH ON HACKNEY! MARCH STARTS 2PM SATURDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2010 BY HACKNEY TOWN HALL TO SHOREDITCH CHURCH A voluntary community group has been formed to organise HACKNEY PRIDE MARCH in response to the rise of homophobic and transphobic attacks in the borough. We want the event to be inclusive and show the unity of all communities in Hackney against not only homophobic and transphobic...
