Huge emergency servic rponse near Gay Village as man rcued after fallg om bridge to nal - Manchter Eveng News

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• GAY VILLAGE
• SECURY STAFF SPEND AFTER CLAIMS MAN WAS BEATEN UNNSC BY FIVE BOUNCERS OUTSI CLUB GAY VILLAGE'I DIDN'T EVER THK I WOULD GO TO MY HOME TOWN TO BE BEATEN UP BY BOUNCERS A WELL-KNOWN GAY BAR'MENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYSOPHIE HALLE-RICHARDSSENR REPORTERJOSIE LE VAY20:01, 26 JAN 2022BOOKMARKRONAN GORDON CLAIMS THE ATTACK WAS 'UNPROVOKED' (IMAGE: RONAN GORDON)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE RALLI TOGETHER TO SHOW ’S BIGGER THAN ‘SOME DISGTG GRAFFI’
• HUGE EMERGENCY SERVIC RPONSE NEAR GAY VILLAGE AS MAN RCUED AFTER FALLG OM BRIDGE TO NALPOLICE AND FIRE WERE LLED TO THE SCENEMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJAM HOLTREPORTER23:33, 18 FEB 2023BOOKMARKMULTIPLE POLICE VEHICL, AS WELL AS INCINT RPONSE UNS AND THE FIRE SERVICE RPOND TO THE CINT ON MSHULL STREET, THE CY CENTRE. (IMAGE: SUBM)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• THE GAY VILLAGE SHOP UNR SIEGE OM MOTORBIKE THUGS - AND THE FEAR THAT THEY HAVE FUELLED
• MISTERS SET TO APOLOGISE TO LGBTQ+ PERSONNEL KICKED OUT OF THE ARMED FORC FOR BEG GAY
• CROWBAR ATTACKS ON BS SPARK SAFETY FEARS MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE

GAY VILLAGE

Sce the start of the 1990s, the area around Canal Street, Manchter cy centre, has grown to bee one of Europe's most lively gay areas, now known as the Village.

The area has bee popular wh both heterosexual and gay visors and has one of the most vibrant nightlife scen the cy.

SECURY STAFF SPEND AFTER CLAIMS MAN WAS BEATEN UNNSC BY FIVE BOUNCERS OUTSI CLUB GAY VILLAGE'I DIDN'T EVER THK I WOULD GO TO MY HOME TOWN TO BE BEATEN UP BY BOUNCERS A WELL-KNOWN GAY BAR'MENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYSOPHIE HALLE-RICHARDSSENR REPORTERJOSIE LE VAY20:01, 26 JAN 2022BOOKMARKRONAN GORDON CLAIMS THE ATTACK WAS 'UNPROVOKED' (IMAGE: RONAN GORDON)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Manchter Pri is an annual ftival celebratg Manchter's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr culture and life.

It tak place over the Augt bank holiday weekend every year, wh events cludg the Gay Village Party, Youth and Fay Pri events, a human rights rally, the ndlel vigil and the annual para. A number of secury staff have been spend after claims a man was beaten unnsc outsi a club Manchter's Gay Village. Mr Gordon said he had been enjoyg a night out wh iends and his partner on the Gay Village when the cint happened.

"I didn’t ever thk I would go to my home town Manchter where I spend a lot of weekends enjoyg myself to be beaten up by bouncers, a well known gay bar. Manchter’s Gay Village has e together to show won’t be feated by vile homophobic graffi that was dbed over artworks on two walls Canal Street. “In the ey of the law, gay, bisexual and lbian people have full equaly but that’s not the se for trans people.

MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE RALLI TOGETHER TO SHOW ’S BIGGER THAN ‘SOME DISGTG GRAFFI’

“There’s still a lot of people out there who see beg gay as beg sful which is why they’ve wrten 666 across the murals.

HUGE EMERGENCY SERVIC RPONSE NEAR GAY VILLAGE AS MAN RCUED AFTER FALLG OM BRIDGE TO NALPOLICE AND FIRE WERE LLED TO THE SCENEMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJAM HOLTREPORTER23:33, 18 FEB 2023BOOKMARKMULTIPLE POLICE VEHICL, AS WELL AS INCINT RPONSE UNS AND THE FIRE SERVICE RPOND TO THE CINT ON MSHULL STREET, THE CY CENTRE. (IMAGE: SUBM)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

“They’re tryg to make out like beg gay is ak to beg the vil. Nick Frankl, an artist who liv Lymm, was visg the Gay Village on Saturday wh his fiance and iend. Pixellated imag of the homophobic graffi Manchter's gay village.

There was a huge emergency servic rponse near Manchter's Gay Village on Saturday night (Febary 18) followg reports of a man fallg om a bridge and to the nal. Horrifyg vio footage has THREE tim ptured masked thugs on motorbik attackg an adult store Manchter's Gay Village - as police say tchg the offenrs is their 'top prry'. Calls were ma for an urgent meetg between managers of Gay Village bs, lol lears and neighbourhood police, where was agreed that creased police patrols need to be troduced.

The attacks have sent rippl of unease through the muny, says Jeremy Hoad, chair of the Friends of Manchter's Gay Village group. He spoke to the Manchter Eveng News about how the repeated attacks, whether hate motivated or not, will create a 'stabilisg' atmosphere the Gay Village and wh the wir LGBTQ+ muny - brgg up emotnal reactns and trma om the past.

THE GAY VILLAGE SHOP UNR SIEGE OM MOTORBIKE THUGS - AND THE FEAR THAT THEY HAVE FUELLED

The Gay Village. "As chair of the Gay Village group 's important that remas a safe space for the LGBTQ+ muny and any cints like this are of urse very worryg and unrme the hn of the gay village. Jo our FREE LGBTQ+ WhatsApp group by clickg here Dr Carl At-Behan was discharged om service as a firefighter the RAF 1997 after he was acced of havg ‘homosexual tennci’.

Carl At-Behan was kicked out of the RAF 1997 for beg gay.

MISTERS SET TO APOLOGISE TO LGBTQ+ PERSONNEL KICKED OUT OF THE ARMED FORC FOR BEG GAY

In a jot statement, ex-Naval officer Craig Jon, who chairs the mpaign group, and former RAF officer Carole Paige, said June: “Over 1150 Veterans and fai stepped forward to give evince to Lord Etherton, scribg the full force of the 'gay ban'. The Sparkle Weekend will once aga be held the Gay Village, wh the ma stage Sackville Garns hostg the lik of Jordan Gray, Hk, Alexa Vox, Paris Munro, Lucky Roy Sgh om the Hoe of Spice, Ben Hodge and Monopoly Phonic. Safety fears are risg Manchter’s gay village after a shop’s wdows were smashed wh a crowbar for the third time six weeks what the owner has lled a “premedated, targeted hate crime”.

”Official figur show homophobic hate crim creased by 41% the year to March 2022 and transphobic hate crim by 56% – the largt proportnal rise of all tegori, which also clud race, disabily and relign. There’s fely more homophobia and targeted abe.

CROWBAR ATTACKS ON BS SPARK SAFETY FEARS MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE

A uple of weeks ago, he was targeted wh homophobic language at a b past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotn“There are not enough police. There need to be more police patrols and more CCTV, ” he has creased patrols and circulated imag of the crimals, one of whom was ridg a distctive red said was too early to say whether homophobic hate was the motivatn for the crim but Ethan Barry, who works the Rem Bar on Canal Street, said people had speculated that the shop’s wdow posters of sntily clad men had been the reason the shop was sgled out an area full of LGBTQ+-owned bs.