2011 - Cornwall Pride Committee
Ban Gay Art & Gay Artist
Jan/Feb 2011: Lidbury approached Cornwall Pride with a view to exhibit as a local gay artist his sculptures at the LGBT event in Truro.
Lidbury was turned down flat. It was made known ‘in no uncertain terms’ that as an artist & gay man Lidbury was not welcome at Truro Cornwall Pride.
Lidbury queried his being banned from Cornwall Pride. Since coming out as a gay man in 1989 he had not been charged with any criminal offence & yet the then Cornwall Pride treasurer & sponsor ST Pearce, (Of which Lidbury had been a business client) Lidbury knew had been arrested & charged with multiple criminal offences of fraud, but was still in post as the Cornwall Pride treasurer?
Western Morning News 'Accountant accused £1 million Tax Fraud'
Feb 2011: ‘Cornwall Gay Pride 2011 Their 'Equality & Diversity' is a complete Fairy Tale!’ (1,855 views up to 2015)
Apr 2011: Local Gay Artists Cornish Sculpture BANNED from Cornwall Gay Pride 2011 (11,218 views up to 2015)
£2 MILLION TAX FRAUD COVER UP
March 2011: A voracious internet hate campaign exploded against Lidbury primarily on Facebook from some members of Cornwall Pride committee & their supporters. Included in hate campaign to silence Lidbury were hostile contribution by the civil partner of the accountant/Pride treasurer (The accountant/Pride treasurer & sponsor later convicted of £2 million+ tax fraud in 2014).
NB: Several internet items showing the hate campaign by then Cornwall Pride committee members were submitted in a civil court case 2013 by Lidbury as defense evidence to try to prevent a gagging order. Lidbury banned from Cornwall Pride by then Chair Neil Hawke. Lidbury knew of the arrest & charges against the accountant/Cornwall Pride Treasurer PEARCE as Lidbury had raised concerns & been in personal communication with the HM Tax fraud investigators. Lidbury was a former business client of the accountant & was one of 100’s of businesses adversely affected by the criminal actions of the accountant (& treasurer/sponsor of Cornwall Pride).
Lidbury on advice from HM Tax Fraud Investigators had raised further concerns with Devon & Cornwall police about the hate campaign directed against Lidbury, Pearce’s activities & the criminal activities of another. Devon & Cornwall Police were disinterested & dismissive.
Cornwall Pride & some of their associates denied accountant ST Pearce of St. Austell (also Cornwall Pride treasurer/sponsor) had been arrested & charged with multiple criminal offences. Hate & bile spewed out directed personally at Lidbury from some Cornwall Pride committee members (& others) in a voracious hate campaign targeted against Lidbury for having raised concerns for Cornwall Pride & the treasurer/sponsors criminal activities, the accountant/treasurer already having already been charged with multiple offences.
A further vindictive response was issued and widely circulated by Cornwall Pride committee against Lidbury to the allegation that the accountant (their Cornwall Pride treasurer & Pride sponsor) had been arrested & charged.
Western Morning News 'Accountant accused of £1 million tax fraud'
2013: Lidbury as a gay man, banned by Cornwall Pride & was still being shown texts circulated denying there were even any charges against the accountant (& treasurer of Cornwall Pride) & no court case. Lidbury contacted Truro Crown Court directly who confirmed the criminal prosecution court case of the accountant was ongoing & listed. Cornwall pride committee were in complete utter denial & relentlessly attacked Lidbury.
Intercom Trust, Rainbow Source FM, Healthy Gay Cornwall, Cornwall Pride, LGBTpact, FFLAG, etc. all ignored correspondence from Lidbury & supported the voracious homophobic police instigated Hate Campaign against Lidbury as a gay whistleblower (& CSA survivor).
These local Cornwall & Exeter lgbt groups have continued to be sycophantically appeasing towards the homophobic police force. These lgbt orgs in complete denial of the problem of a corrupt & discriminatory Devon & Cornwall police force.
Lidbury: "In the rush to metaphorically get into bed with traditionally homophobic police, some lgbt orgs like Intercom Trust & Cornwall Pride have lost complete sight of whom 'they' are supposed to actually be helping/supporting, ie. lgbt people, victims of institutional hate crime'
Lidbury in his 2015 witness testimony submitted to the statutory 'Goddard Inquiry' has identified these Cornwall & Exeter lgbt orgs as specifically having aided police in both covering up historic CHILD RAPE & HOMOPHOBIC HATE CRIMES. None of the LGBT orgs supported Lidbury as a gay victim of police homophobic abuse & in some cases these lgbt orgs like Intercom & Cornwall Pride actively contributed to the hate crimes.
March 29th 2011: Concerted Hate campaign directed at Lidbury by Cornwall Pride Committee members & others on Facebook. (Copies of these hate pages & names of those who took part held securely by third party for legal reasons).
2011: Various Incidents: These are publicly restricted by a civil action at Truro court 2013 a gagging order against Lidbury preventing him from speaking out publicly on these issues
