An Aigburth man has spoken of his pride as the LGBTQ+ awards night he helped create has become the biggest in Europe.
Growing up in the 80s and 90s, Daniel Hughes felt there were no relatable LGBTQ+ people in the media which in turn made him feel "alone and isolated" at times. The 38-year-old explained how the universal feeling of loneliness before "coming out" was only worsened at the time by the "hangover of hostile government policies towards LGBT people."
He told the ECHO : “I know it is an experience many gay people face but the situation was worse then because of the lack of openly gay figures in the media. You'd feel like there was no one else like you. You also had the hangover of hostile government policies towards LGBT+ people in the early 1990s which contributed to the gay community being marginalised and discriminated against by certain parts of the media. You can look back now at some of the archive headlines about the community and they are horrific to read.”
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