Getting Pink news to you - welcome to PinkUk’s newsletter No. 4
We hope you are managing to enjoy the summer despite all the restrictions and postponement of Prides with the pandemic. Many Prides are still holding digital events such as Brighton and Hove Pride today 31 July and Saturday and Sunday.
Colourful crew at Worthing Pride, 2019 |
Since our last newsletter was published LGBTQ+ pubs and bars, Bed and Breakfasts, and hotels are reopening with safe measures across the UK. We wish all our business friends our best wishes in what may be challenging trading conditions.
For holiday goers, please be aware when booking breaks abroad, listen to the news for Covid-19 outbreaks in case countries place new restrictions, for example Luxembourg has added a new self-isolate requirement.
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Finally, You can see this and previous newsletters in PDF format as well as e mail and this month's PDF newsletter will be available shortly.
Love and huge Pink respect Dave and team.
Prides/gay events
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2020 we have 150 prides and gay events in UK for 2020. PinkUk have a total of 454 gay prides and gay events in 44 countries for 2020.
2021 we have 42 prides and gay events in UK for 2021. PinkUk have a total of 89 gay prides and gay events in 20 countries for 2021.
If you have a venue or a gay Pride/Event why not add it to PinkUk.
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Improvements to PinkUk
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Free venues:
Enhanced PinkUK search where it was not finding venues with brackets in their names.
Added a reviews section to our T&Cs.
Advertisers:
Added price range to search engine indexing for venues.
Added a 'shop' to list of facility icons.
Added country code and venues currency symbol to applicable venues.
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Featured Venue
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Doonbank Bothy, Ayrshire
Doonbank Cottage Bothy: Whether you're looking for a one night business stopover, a couple of nights to attend a wedding at the Brig O'Doon, a romantic getaway or a one or two week self catering holiday break, our Bothy offers an exclusive, flexible and private accommodation base for you. It is a beautifully presented two storey, one bedroomed detached house. It is very spacious, quiet and peaceful and set within four and a half acres of secluded private woodland forming part of Doonbank Cottage's grounds. The river Doon forms half a mile as Doonbank's eastern boundary.
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LGBTQ+ slang dictionary
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LGBTQ+ slang dictionary If you have always wanted to know what those slang words are, that everyone uses but were too shy to ask, or if you wanted to know where they came from then the gay dictionary is your answer.
If there are any phrases that we don’t have, please let us know.
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Did you know? #1
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Grindr tribes
LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr has had tribes as a profile function since 2013 to enable people to find the type they like more easily. The current tribal options are below. What are you, if any, and do you know what they all mean?
Bear, Clean cut, Daddy, Geek, Jock, Leather, Otter, Poz, Rugged, Trans, Twink, Sober
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Did you know? #2
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Homophobia is rife in Poland
That narrowly reelected Polish President Andrzej Duda has called LGBTQ+ activists "more harmful than communism". President Duda also said he agreed with another right-wing politician who stated that “LGBT [sic] is not people, it's an ideology.” There are also 'LGBTQ+ free zones' in some conservative districts of Poland.
News courtesy of euronews.com
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