Left-wing Remainers force gay pride festival to cancel its virtual event – because its organiser is a Tory-backing Brexiteer

May 19, 2020 by Jill

by Michael Powell, Mail on Sunday:

Plans for a virtual gay pride parade to raise money for charity have been abandoned following criticism of one of its organisers for backing Brexit.

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, singer Dannii Minogue and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell had all agreed to appear at Virtual Pride 2020 next Saturday.

The event was dreamed up after dozens of parades had to be cancelled due to coronavirus.

But it has now been axed after Left-wing activists led by Labour’s diversity adviser announced a boycott when anonymous Twitter posts revealed that organiser Charlie Shakespeare is a Tory supporter who had called for a ‘cleanbreak Brexit’.

He had also liked tweets by Nigel Farage and Spectator columnist Toby Young.

Withdrawing her support on Tuesday, Linda Riley, the publisher of DIVA magazine who was appointed as an LGBT+ adviser by Jeremy Corbyn in 2017, told event planners: ‘My brand will not be associated with anybody who RT’s [retweets] Toby Young and Nigel Farage.’

When theatre director Mr Shakespeare replied, ‘That seems a little politically bigoted’, Ms Riley went public, telling her 76,000 Twitter followers that she was no longer involved and was ‘proud to be a political bigot’.

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