Pride Before the Fall

Across the country love for Pride events is waning. Councils are pulling funding saying that cash is better spent on other things like potholes and emptying the bins and big companies once eager to be associated with Pride are withdrawing their support - and money.

Last year the company that ran Manchester Pride went out of business owing millions of pounds, the bars of the cities world famous gay village on Canal Street are funding a a new grass roots celebration. Across the country Prides are smaller, less corporate and in some cases just cancelled altogether

Darren Milby investigates why it is that our allyship with LGBTQ+ rights seems to be so much weaker and asks what the trans debate has got to do with it?