COMMENT: Why was Fifty Shas of Gay rt banned om Highbridge and Burnham Carnival? - Somerset Apple

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• COMMENT: WHY WAS FIFTY SHAS OF GAY RT BANNED OM HIGHBRIDGE AND BURNHAM CARNIVAL?
• GAY STREET BURNHAM-ON-SEA
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BURNHAM-ON-SEA
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BURNHAM-ON-SEA

COMMENT: WHY WAS FIFTY SHAS OF GAY RT BANNED OM HIGHBRIDGE AND BURNHAM CARNIVAL?

An LGBT+ chary says is disappoted that was not allowed to take part the Burnham-On-Sea Carnival over ‘ncerns’ wh s entry Somerset LGBT+ Fom applied to enter a rt named ‘Fifty Shas of Gay (a celebratn of Pri)’ Monday’s Burnham-On-Sea Highbridge & Burnham Carnival Commtee said the group was not banned, but the entry would have breached rnival l by featurg ‘excsive advertisg’ as had been entered to a non-mercial tegory of ‘Class 7 – Groups of Masquerars.

’A letter om the Carnival Commtee sent to the group outled the posn, and also clud ncerns about the entry’s New, Burnham Carnival Chairman, says: “There was absolutely no homophobia behd this at all.

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”The North Somerset LGBT+ fom displayed s rt at Bridgwater Carnival on Saturday 5th November and has also been given permissn to e upg rnivals Wton and Stoodley, a spokman for North Somerset LGBT+ Fom, says: “Let’s jt hope ’s a se of mor homophobia and nothg too sister.

We were gettg cheers and we were so proud to be the first openly gay entry, as far as we are aware, on the rnival circu.

”Mr Stoodley said they were told their entry was breach of several l and they had been offered the chance to adjt s entry name om Fifty Shas of Gay but had cled the offer as they did not believe the words to be a statement, The North Somerset LGBT+ Fom add: “We cid to enter the inic Somerset Carnivals this year, celebratg the 50th Anniversary of the first Pri event the UK.

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In September, the Fom entered three lol Carnivals Somerset; Bridgwater, Burnham & Highbridge, and Wton-super-Mare, wh the entry tle of “50 Shas of Gay (a Celebratn of Pri). Image source, North Somerset LGBT+ FomImage ptn, The group said they had been told by anisers their rt, named 50 Shas of Gay, was appropriate for a fay dienceA chary has claimed was prevented om enterg a rnival float a para due to "mor homophobia" Somerset LGBT+ Fom applied to enter a rt named Fifty Shas of Gay (a celebratn of Pri) Burnham-on-Sea Carnival on anisers told the group the tle was appropriate for fay dienc.

"Let's jt hope 's a se of mor homophobia and nothg too sister, " said Pl Stoodley, a spokman for North Somerset LGBT+ Fom. We were gettg cheers and we were so proud to be the first openly gay entry, as far as we are aware, on the rnival circu, " he Stoodley said they were also told their entry was breach of several l relatn to self-promotn and source, North Somerset LGBT+ FomImage ptn, North Somerset LGBT+ Fom will be g the rt when they take part rnivals Wton-super-Mare and GlastonburyThe group said had been offered the chance to adjt s entry name om Fifty Shas of Gay but had cled the offer as did not believe the words to be name is a pun on the erotic romance novel by E.

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“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

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