{"id":621623,"date":"2026-06-04T23:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621623\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:46:14","slug":"gateshead-council-to-no-longer-fly-pride-flag-or-support-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621623\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateshead Council to no longer fly Pride flag or support events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun Edge, Labour councillor for Crawcrook and Greenside, told colleagues he was now &#8220;too scared&#8221; to walk into a pub holding his husband&#8217;s hand and Reform&#8217;s decision would leave the town&#8217;s LGBTQ+ community feeling &#8220;on their own&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to be aware that Pride is not just a socio-political group, it is a group of people in this community,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The generations before me had to [fight] and I thought I was going to be fine, but I am going to have to fight myself to try and be heard and lead a life like the rest of my heterosexual compatriots across the room.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaun Edge, Labour councillor for Crawcrook and Greenside, told colleagues he was now &#8220;too scared&#8221; to walk into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-621623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}