Lanarkshire man takes great Pride in organising inaugural summer event

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The Lanarkshire LGBT community will be able to take part in their own special event this summer.Making up a sizeable section of the overall community and with no celebration of note happening in the local area, Wishaw man Garry King decided to change that by organising Pride Lanarkshire.The 33-year-old, who runs a performing arts group charity for young people, was instrumental in the rainbow Pride flag being flown last year at the council’s Civic Centre headquarters in Motherwell.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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There’s not even any pubs that do anything at all.“I’ve been doing this stuff in drag and being filmed for a TV campaign and it’s going all over the UK, there’s Pride events happening in Edinburgh, London and Glasgow and I just kept thinking there’s nothing happening here.“We have a number of