Ginger Pride

Ginger Pride festival to be held in Plymouth, a city hit by anti-redhead hate crimes.

17:31 17 August 2015

The first-ever “Ginger Pride” festival to be is to be held in Plymouth following crime figures that reveal a series of incidents that victimised people solely based on their hair colour. The incidents include a serious assault and other reports of harassment against people with ginger locks.

 

The festival, which is being organised by Stuart Perry, a pizza delivery driver, is expected to attract the attention of gingers from across the country. His idea started as a backlash to the cartoon series South Park, which episode entitled “Kick a Ginger Day” has been blamed for a series of copycat attacks in Britain.

 

He said: “We want to celebrate the fact that we are little bit different, but not too different.

“The only thing we have in common is our hair colour, but that gives us shared experiences.”

“It’s going to be a celebrating for people to see we’re not quite as weird as you all thought. It’s not going to be a ‘we’re gingers, we’re different’ event, we already know that, it’s just a celebration.

“The place in mind has a capacity of about 150/200, which seems like a reasonable ambition for our first go.