Huge crowds gathered for Pride in London in 2019. (Dinendra Haria/ SOPA Images/LightRocket/ Getty)
The LGBT+ women’s magazine DIVA has pulled out of Pride in London amid mounting concerns over racism in the top levels of the event’s leadership team.
DIVA publisher Linda Riley announced on Wednesday (17 March) that she’d taken “the difficult but unavoidable decision” to withdraw DIVA’s support from the Women’s Stage in Leicester Square, which it had hosted for several years.
The magazine described problems with the “entire management structure” of Pride In London, saying it is “nothing short of scandalous” that the biggest diversity event in such a diverse city is represented by a board which chiefly comprises white, cis, gay men.