Cornwall GAY PRIDE Beach Party/Picnic 2007

Cornwall GAY PRIDE Beach Party/Picnic August 25th 2007




An informal LGBT GAY PRIDE community gathering of LGBT persons in Cornwall.

Cornwall does not have a Gay Pride event. This is a simple informal gathering of LGBT persons to enjoy a beautiful Cornish Beach this summer and have fun in community company of other LGBT persons in celebration of Gay PRIDE.

This is a NON-Commercial event.

Simply turn up! LOOK OUT for the Rainbow Flags!

Bring YOUR own picnic,
Bring YOUR own beach games,
Bring YOUR own bucket & spade,
Bring YOUR own Cornish shovel,
Bring YOUR own inflatable toys,
Bring YOUR own Surf/body boards,
Bring YOUR own sun tan lotion (but get someone else to apply it!!!)
Bring YOUR own Rainbow Flags, towels, Kites, etc.

Ulitimately YOU are responsible for your own requirements & safety on the Day!

When:- Bank Holiday Weekend August 25th
Time:- 10am -5pm
Where:- Hayle Beach
(Between The Bluff Inn lifeguard station & the mouth of the Hayle Estuary)

There is ample PAY FOR parking
1. Council Parking at the Bluff Inn
2. The Bluff Inn (for their customers)
3. Pay For Parking at Hayle Harbour (beyond Hayle outdoor swimming pool)

NB:- Disability access to the beach from ALL the car parks is NOT very good.
NB:- Sorry. This is a Council DOG BAN beach!

HIGH TIDE is at 16.06 Hrs (just after 4pm)for those interested in participating in a GAINT sandcastle tide race! (Which is why some may need Cornish Shovels!)

This is a Great beach for fun "Sand Sculpting" for creative types!

Hoping to get volleyball, beach skittles & rounders going for the altheletic energetic types.

Please take note:- There are STRONG CURRENTS around the mouth of the estuary. Take note of the lifeguard advisary Flags! These are for your safety!

This is a beautiful beach 3 miles long & backed with huge sandunes!!!

...and in the evening

LGBT Social Night @ Caharrick Social Club (between Lanner & St.Day). This is a follow on from the recent successful 'Saddle Tramps' reunion night at the same venue!
...AND/OR go onto the ECLIPSE nightclub, Truro!

...and THAT SAME WEEKEND. Cornwall OUTeverywhere gay Camp event (part of the national gay social network OUTeverywhere)See outeverywhere website.


But before all that:-

Cornwall LGBT Coffee evenings
(LGBT gay community discuss & socialise on topic of the Gay PRIDE Beach Party/Picnic)
The Next LGBT Cornwall coffee evening. Wednesday 4th July 7.30pm -9.30pm-ish.
email lgbt-pride-beach-picnic@tesco.net

see also:-

http://www.outeverywhere.com

http://www.gaycornwall.com

http://www.rainbownetwork.com

http://www.outback.co.uk

http://www.pinkpasty.blogspot.com

http://www.ukgayguides.co.uk

http://www.pinklinks.co.uk (for lgbt accomodation)


This Beach Party/Picnic could be the most westerly Gay Pride activity in the British Isles!

Lets make it a GOOD ONE!

Devon & Cornwall Constabulary HATE CRIME

Intercom Trust / Cornish Police Homophobia / Hate Crime
Cornwall Police / Prejudice / Diversity / Equality

Cornish Institutional Homophobia

Devon & Cornwall Constabulary / IPCC / Local Police Authority
Crown Prosecution Service / Probation Service / Criminal Justice Board


The MOST LIKELY PERSON TO HOMOPHOBICALLY ABUSE & VIOLATE A GAY PERSONS LIFE IN CORNWALL….IS STILL A Cornwall POLICE OFFICER!!!

Asked why do I feel the Cornwall police are homophobic ?

Well I personally know which CORNWALL POLICE OFFICERS …


...committed perjury against a gay person and lied in a Civil Crown Court.
...said ‘anal sex was always an act of sexual violence’ in a court of law against
a gay person in court.
...told a gay victim of a brutal serious violent assault in Helston , Cornwall,
to ‘shut up, be quiet, you don’t want to say that’, when the victim informed the police officer he thought it was a homophobic assault .
...threatened to charge with affray, a gay victim (hospitalised) after violent assault, if a complaint of assault was made by either of the two LGBT victims.
...obstructed information to a gay person as to how to make a formal complaint against the police.
...tried to obstruct the disclosure by a gay person of defence statements to the police prosecution.
...lied about a signature in a pocket book to try to cover up police misconduct against a gay person.
...failed to deliver ALL the legally entitled court paperwork to a gay victim of homophobia.
...stated in a letter that spreading rumours a gay person had HIV/AIDS (when they did not have HIV/AIDS) was not harassment.
...stated in a letter that the screaming of homophobic abuse in the streets was not harassment of the gay person it was directed at
...participated in the attempted blackmail of a homeless vagrant 15yr old gay youth living rough on the streets of Helston.
...carried out a partial strip search on a gay youth in a public place.
...failed to follow home office guidelines on stop and search of a gay youth.
...tried to mislead a court of law as to ownership of a property.
...was rude to an elderly pensioner witness in defence of a gay youth.
...acted upon entirely homophobic allegations against a gay person.
...threatened that a seized computer (later returned) would be wiped of information.
...refused a gay person access to an LGBT diversity officer.
...failed to return seized property to a gay person within an acceptable time line.
...participated in the destruction of two gay owned businesses.
...failed to finalise a case, leaving a gay victim of homophobic abuse on the police computer as a suspect.
...failed to enable a gay person held in custody any food for in excess of 7 hours.
...bullied a gay person when their property went missing whilst they were detained by the police.
...lied about the identity of two police officers who made an un-logged visit to a gay persons home.
...drove a gay person to attempt suicide.
...was patronising of the homophobic violations, abuse & violent assaults experienced by a gay person.
... failed to act upon homophobic conduct of other Cornwall police officers.

….and I have probably missed out almost as much again!

The above has been my COMMON PLACE experiences of how Cornwall Police still conduct themselves against gay persons in 2007. Violating and abusing gay persons sexual orientation lifestyles.

The above list does not included other numerous historical abuses of gay persons in Cornwall by the Cornish police over many decades, these are to numerous to mention and have brutalised and damaged many gay persons lives.

The above are my personal experiences and/or observations as a gay person living in Cornwall. The abusive and homophobic violating practises of Cornwall Police Officers is such, I personally have NO respect or trust in ANY Cornwall police officer. The culture of homophobic prejudice is still ACCEPTABLE practise throughout the Cornwall POLICE force! Protected BY THE ATTITUDE of the Chief Constables office at Middlemoor Devon & Cornwall Constabulary HQ.

TWENTY TWO recommendations against Devon & Cornwall Constabulary made by the INDEPENDENT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION (The IPCC no better than a police force lap dog poodle) have been ignored and are totally ineffectual as homophobic impact, violation & abuse continues, perpetuated by the Cornwall’s Police Force continues unabated.

It is due to the widespread dishonesty & homophobic prejudicial attitudes I have personally encountered amongst SO MANY Cornwall police officers which leads me to express my concern at the lack of honesty, impartiality, integrity & transparency operative amongst Cornwall police when dealing with gay persons or gay issues.

Gay PRIDE Cornwall 2007?

A Cornish LGBT PRIDE event, is it a possibility?

Gay PRIDE Cornwall ...A Beach Picnic? 2007!

So there we were,a few of us discussing national gay PRIDE events and how Cornwall doesn’t have one to celebrate lgbt diversity!

...and yet ...only ten years ago we had most successful LGBT Fetes on a farm in Cornwall. (as featured in Gay Times once)

This lead the conversation onto...what could we do, with minimum expenditure, was least commercial and required little organisation?

A GAY BEACH PICNIC

Arrange a day & location. Bung a large rainbow flag up the top of a big pole, sink it the sand and gather in its general vicinity on a beach to socialise with other LGBT persons and have an LGBT community presence & Picnic. Swim? Surf? Paddle? Make rainbow kites (before hand) & Fly Kites? Build Sandcastles? Create Sand Sculptures? Wander/cruise across the Dunes? Sun bathe? Pose & Posture? Rounders/Sand-cricket (Gay Women v Gay Men maybe?). Tongue in cheek Beach ‘Butch Hunk’ competition...and gay men could do a ‘speedos’ contest too see who has the best looking ‘smuggled budgie’?

These are some initial ideas banded about, however...

A Beach– you don’t have to book it, no deposit or payment required!
Event = (since there is NO gay scene in Cornwall, it could not qualify as being a scene activity)
Catering = Bring your own picnic
First Aid = Lifeguards, paid for by your council tax contributions!

If it rains...just do it the following week instead!

This is a lose and entirely fluid idea at the moment.

If interested further, have genuine input, ideas YOU could carry out and could contribute with, then I’m having a coffee evening in Cornwall Friday 22nd June for an informal LGBT discussion. For further info:-

email: lgbt-pride-beach-picnic@tesco.net

Post Plymouth Gay Pride

Plymouth ‘Gay’ Pride

Organising anything takes a great deal of work by a dedicated few, so first I have to say thank you to those who put in the effort. I know some people will have worked really, really hard with little thanks to get this together….but then I really feel guilty because ...

We had decided to go to Plymouth Pride in support.

Myself & another made the 73mile (146 mile round trip) journey from where we live in Cornwall to attend the Plymouth Pride event. Thanks to the wonderful road works on the A30 at Gosmoor , it took over two hours just to reach Plymouth, but the journey is also said to be part of the adventure.

We arrived at the Plymouth Guildhall. The only indication there might possibly be something ‘gay?’ occurring inside was what appeared to be a last moment thought to crookedly hastily pin up a rainbow flag on the outside which looked as if it was there entirely by accident. The high presence of a cordon of high visibility police officers surrounding the front of the building did not reassure me. To us, it was very off putting due to the Homophobic attitude we regularly encounter with the homophobic police in Cornwall. We circumnavigated around the high-vis coppers and entered the Guildhall. Eight police officers outside!

I did not feel there was much risk of the people of Plymouth even realising there was an LGBT presence at the Guildhall (let alone a Gay Pride event ) as it was so low key and virtual invisibility. Now were the police there to keep the STR8’s out or to keep the smattering of a handful of poof’s inside?

Inside and up the stairs confronted by the first stall…. which was the Police. I could feel my hackles rising and my companion quickly steered me away from my directly engaging in my launching into a “What the FUCK are the HOMOPHOBIC Devon & Cornwall Constabulary here for in such heavy presence!” I was quickly whisked around the half a dozen stalls by my friend. I was grateful for a friendly smile from the women on the ‘Lavender-lifestyles’ stall. Otherwise, having been made entirely uncomfortable by the police crawling everywhere, (I REALLY find the presence of the police highly offensive at gay events given their homophobic practises in Cornwall) I already felt as a gay person who has been personally abused & violated as a gay person by the police, completely and utterly alienated from this Gay Pride event.

I spotted someone I knew and had not seen in several years since they had left Cornwall. Having caught up on ‘have you heard from…’ and ‘what’s so & so doing now..’ we quickly established there was little point in the (almost) but a not quite 18yr old teenager trying to gain entry to the other Pride events later that evening.

There was nothing for us at the Guildhall so we bimbled into the Plymouth shopping area.

This is terrible, but, we actually spent more time watching some teenage ‘Goths’ & ‘Emos’ in costume putting on some street theatre promoting a right wing evangelical Christian church ideology than the entire time we actually spent in the ‘gay pride’ event at the Plymouth Guildhall.

We went on to have a pleasant early evening meal down at a restaurant on the Barbican and decided there was no point in staying on into the evening , we returned to rural Cornwall. I concluded I had been spoiled by the London Gay Pride events in Brockwell Park in the mid 90’s.

We did have a pleasant day out in Plymouth, but I was left feeling not part of, inclusive or included in the Plymouth ‘gay’ event. The heavy presence of Plymouth Police yesterday was in particular for us, most off putting. It seemed like huge overkill policing for such a small low key event, which had the feel of a village hall WI market.

..and I DO FEEL guilty for saying that because I know how much hard work some will have done to get the event together. Will I make the journey from Cornwall to Plymouth Pride next year, I think that may depend on whether the ‘Goths & Emos’ are performing in the shopping area again.

However, we made up for it having been invited for Sunday lunch near St. Austell with nine young gay men mainly in their teens & twenties. I sincerely thank them for their hospitality & good humour. We enlightened them about our personal FACTUAL experiences of current widespread Cornwall police homophobic practises against gay men in Cornwall. Slowly we are spreading & getting the message across that the ‘corrupt?’ Cornwall police are entirely untrustworthy regarding treatment of gay people.

Cornwall police:- Probably the most HOMOPHOBIC in Britain?