Steve’s got an idea. With extensive experience in the events business, which will come in very handy if he’s going to rock the walls of Windsor Castle, he wants to put on an event that is more than just PRIDE, you might say PRIDE PLUS OR MINUS 😉
It starts with PRIDE but it’s not exclusively an LGBTQ+ audience, he wants it to be for the entire community, PLUS OR MINUS, as a celebration of people being allowed to be themselves!
Over to Steve… “The whole event is a way of bringing understanding and acceptance to the community with local groups and charities in attendance, crafts in the pride village, performers, comedians and drag artists so a wide range of things for everybody. Above all, a great party where the whole community can celebrate this is not just a small demographic. It’s a wide demographic that covers all the colours of the rainbow.
It all started with me sending an email eight months ago to Adam my MP asking why Windsor has no pride event… fast forward… a potential date, staging being worked out, artists, all the health and safety, food, drinks, and security through to exciting things like bins, loos and fences.
But this isn’t cheap!
I have 10 years of event production skills working on some fairly big festivals and eight years running a 1000 capacity club night in my spare time.
I’ve got an event in principle but…
I NEED HELP…
If all goes to plan I am hoping for this to happen late summer this year and if not then we plan for next year…
Please contact me ASAP if you think you can add value and would like to be involved in some way.
Thank you.
WHY does Windsor need a pride event? Like probably millions of other people in the country, I really couldn’t care less about people’s sexual preferences, which is what pride boils down to; be that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender?, queer (gay?). Quite frankly, I, along with millions of other people, am sick and tired of having the sexual preferences of a minority of people thrust in my face all the time. I don’t care, nor do I want to know what they do in private! What makes them special? Are vegans and vegetarians, or other minorities also going to have their own special status?
Hopefully the council won’t waste our council taxes on rainbows around the borough!
But, an event MINUS pride would be good for the town, so good luck with that.
What a lovely dose of homophobia. Well done you. Hope you’re very proud of yourself. It’s people like you that make pride events so important. You ignorant moron.
How is it homophobic? If the council are havin to cough up funds for this, it’s not a good use of public funds. We are being told the council have no money
Attitudes like this show why Pride is still needed and valuable. You answered your own question with your comment. On the one hand you say you don’t care, then you start on about “it” being thrust in your face. What exactly is being thrust? What are you scared of?
Who is paying for this event?
Is the council contributing funds?
I ask as we are repeatedly told the council has no money and is close to bankruptcy
So if they are I do not think it’s a good use of public funds
shall I take the helm on that, considering I am the one that sent the initial email 8 months ago to my MP, and despite a consistent stream of railway sleepers being thrown in front of the car, I am still fighting for it to happen. To alleviate your concerns, one of the first railway sleepers that got thrown is, “There is no funding available from the council to do this” I wasn’t expecting them to be either. However, I am still looking to try to pull off an amazing event for the whole community, not just a minority of it, and with that, it will be something for almost everybody. My ambition with this is if your goals dont scare the crap out of you then your goals aint big enough. I consider myself an honoured guest of the pride community too, as I have been married to my wife for nearly 10 years but the pair of us have a massive understanding of the struggles it has gone through, and this needs to be celebrated for the fact we live in a country that is a lot more accepting and modern to how it was in the 80’s and from how many places around the world are still stuck in the medieval times.
Agreed with the above that we shouldn’t use council funds for this. Happy for a pride event to take place but better to fundraise or get donors – private funding. I’d rather see our council tax go to fix roads, parking, housing, help children and those that need to make our lives better in Windsor.
agreed with the above also 😉 This is why it’s being done this way, just like the majority of pride events in the UK.
This sounds like a great event, I unfortunately have no skills that I can help with but I will most certainly attend! I have always thought it was such a shame that Windsor doesn’t do anything for Pride. No matter what some people think it is important for all to feel safe and accepted and an event like this is just a small way to help bring a community together and have fun.
this is exactly what I thought while in the pride march at Newbury, thinking, why the hell is this not in Windsor?