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# Re-arranged Exeter Pride 2020 is cancelled
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/re-arranged-exeter-pride-2020-is-cancelled/
- Published: 2020-09-04T11:12:14.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-03T14:45:07.000Z
- Description: Exeter Pride trustees decide not to proceed with this year’s Exeter Pride, which was scheduled first for Saturday, May 2 and then for Saturday, September 26.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Community, In The South, Information, News, Pride, COVID-19, Exeter, Exeter Pride, LGBT, LGBTQ

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Photo by Alan Quick

[**Exeter Pride**](https://www.exeterpride.co.uk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) trustees have decided not to proceed with this year’s Exeter Pride, which was scheduled first for **Saturday, May 2** and then for **Saturday, September 26**.

Trustees said that due to the daily changing situation caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, and on government and **Public Health England** advice, it had taken the decision to cancel the September 26 event to ensure the continued health and well-being of everyone in the community.

**Simon Bowkett**, Chair of Exeter Pride, said: *‘This has been an extraordinary year for all of us – for the world, for our country, and for Exeter Pride.*

*‘The word ‘unprecedented’ has been perhaps over-used, but we have never seen a year like this for sheer unpredictability, massive changes to our routines and near-universal fear.*

*‘Around the world, Pride events have been cancelled, and Exeter’s May event was no exception.*

*‘As the first outdoor UK Pride of the season, we cancelled hoping that – later in the summer – others may still be lucky enough to happen. With one or two exceptions (that have yet to happen) this has not been the case.*

*‘Sadly we just cannot go ahead with our proposed event on September 26, but we will continue to campaign and stand up for LGBTQ+ rights and to keep our community together.*

*‘We are developing an online plan that will keep Exeter Pride very much at centre stage until normal service resumes.*

*‘It will be an exciting hub for everyone who comes to our events, a place where everyone can come to, engage in and still feel very much part of our wonderful Pride family.*

*‘Our 2020 campaign #Unashamed is already proving to be a great success, and this temporary change of plan will provide everyone with the opportunity to really get behind it and use what it stands for as a tool to keep us all together during this incredibly difficult and challenging time.’*

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Photo by Alan Quick

Mr Bowkett added: *‘The Exeter Pride family is a strong, supportive community, and until it is possible to resume normal activities, we, the committee and trustees, will do everything we can to keep it that way.*

*‘Stay safe, we’ll be back really soon.’*

For all information and latest updates, please keep checking the **[Exeter Pride News page](https://www.exeterpride.co.uk/news?ref=scenemag.co.uk)** or visit any of the Exeter Pride social media channels.