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    Thumper Hove wrote:
    jimbobmaginty wrote:
    Kid Neewiper wrote:
    voiceofthescoombe wrote: Well if the people running it are actual buisness people who have run successful ventures before might have a hope. How Hard is it to put a party on in a park?
    The difficult part is getting any of the 'community' to pay for it!
    What’s the point! I won’t pay for it!
    I have nothing against Gay people but it does wind me up when they prance about on floats rubbing it in our faces! Even with kids asking me “Why is that man dressed like mummy?”

    If straight people celebrated being straight we would be criticised for it!
    Judging by your kids' comments, I think you need to buy your wife a razor. Also perhaps you need to step further back from the floats so you don't get whatever it is rubbed into your face.
    Its always sad when homophobic and narrow minded people always start their justification with 'I have nothing against gay people BUT..."
    GOOD COMMENT JIM BOB I CAN TOTALLY EMPATHISE WITH YOU . AS FOR THUMPERS QUOTE , GO AND BUY YOUR WIFE A RAZOR ? GROW UP !!"
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New company in bid to rescue Brighton’s Pride festival

1:40pm Tuesday 28th February 2012 in Business News By John Keenan, business editor

Business leaders in the city have stepped forward to rescue the Pride festival.

Debts totalling more than £180,000 owed to more than 20 companies and charities have plunged the future of the major event into doubt.

Now Michael Deol and Robert Webb, the owners of Club Revenge in Old Steine, and James Ledward, editor of GScene magazine, have formed a community interest company in a bid to run Pride in Brighton and Hove for 2012.

They have vowed that all profits will be ploughed back into LGBT charitable causes. According to plans submitted to Brighton and Hove City Council, Stagfleet Ltd, the owner of Club Revenge, will underwrite the whole event. The directors also own 10 venues across the city, including The Dorset, Hove Kitchen, Zafferelli’s and the Sackville Hotel site.

Mr Deol said that £1 of the price of every ticket sold will be ring-fenced and donated directly to the Rainbow Fund to distribute through its grants programme to local LGBT/HIV organisations and charities that provide front line services to the LGBT community in Brighton and Hove.

He said: “We are delighted to have brought together what we think is a superb group of people to run and organise this year’s Pride in Brighton and Hove. “We have been negotiating on the future of the event with Brighton and Hove City Council and look forward to its decision.”

A spokesman for Brighton and Hove City Council said that the Stagfleet bid is one of two under consideration. He would not disclose the identity of the second bidder.

He said: “A decision will be made by Councillor Geoffey Bowden, cabinet member for culture recreation and tourism, on March 6.”

The Argus understands that according to the group’s plans the route of the march and the venue for the party in Preston Park will remain unchanged at the event planned for September 1.

Former vice chair of Pride (South East) Nick Beck said that lessons would be learned from previous failures.

He said: “There is no reason the event last year should not have made a profit.

“I am confident that with prudent money management the festival can be a commercial success and will raise money for LGBT causes.

“The business acumen of Mr Deol and Mr Webb is well-proven.”

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