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IDAHO 2014

IDAHO was celebrated in Croydon on Saturday 17th May 2014, from 11am to 2pm in the pedestrian area of North End. It was a bigger and better version of last year's event, under the title "One Love", with stalls for eight churches and eight LGBT organisations, plus music. The stalls were colour coded blue for churches and yellow /rainbow for LGBT groups. Above each pair of stalls was a banner, held up by helium balloons, with the name of a church on one side and an LGBT organisation on the other. Additional banners were hung on six posts around the area.

More information: 

For the list of organisations taking part and links to their websites, see the One Love page on this website.

Music was provided by Rainbow Singers Across Borders and the Endurance Steel Orchestra, and the Friends of Dorothy Society of Bell Ringers (FODS) rang a quarter peal at Croydon Minster.

See also the CAGS press releases:

The event received coverage in the Croydon Guardian, Croydon Advertiser, Ringing World, The Croydon Citizen, Instinct Magazine, Pink News, The Advocate and the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News. And the event now has its own article on the UK LGBT History Project's online encyclopaedia: www.lgbthistoryuk.org/wiki/index.php?title=One_Love_%28Croydon%29

Photo gallery: 

Hover over any image to see its description; click any image to see a larger version (and click the x in the bottom right of an enlarged picture to return to the main display).

"One Love" event in Croydon for IDAHO 2014

Photos by Chris Packham of Reigate: www.digitalspin.co.uk.

Endurance Steel Orchestra entertain the publicCroydon Unitarians and FFLAG stallsFFLAG (Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)Endurance Steel OrchestraSusan leads the Rainbow SingersRainbow Singers Across BordersRainbow Singers with One Love flagsFriendly discussionsSigning a petitionEarnest debateAnother signatureRainbow Singers with flagsOne of the balloon bannersEndurance Steel Orchestra with bannerRev Dwayne Morgan of Metropolitan Community ChurchThe Quest (Gay Catholics) stallRainbows Across Borders members with flagsRainbows Across Borders singers with grass skirtsRoss and Dee
Friends of Dorothy Society of Bell Ringers

The Friends of Dorothy (LGBT bell ringers and their friends) came to ring in Croydon Minster for IDAHO. Pictures from Catherine Pestano.

One Love flagCroydon Minster and One Love flagOne of the bellsFODS ringersGetting ready to ring
More photos from the "One Love" event

These pictures are from Tim Miles of the Croydon Unitarians.

Susan and the Rainbow SingersCroydon Unitarians stall and balloonsCrowds in front of the Whitgift CentreSusan and SingersRainbow Singers Across Borders
Some more IDAHO pictures

These were contributed by Phil Purkiss of the Regeneration Project

The Regeneration Project and CAGS stalls (with David Page of CAGS)The St John the Evangelist and Rainbow Reading Group stallsOut and Proud Diamond Group bannerCroydon Methodist Circuit bannerStalls for Croydon Unitarians and FFLAGPurley Quakers and Aurora stallsOut and Proud Diamond Group stallUnitarians and FFLAG stallsPhilip James of the Regeneration Project (left) with Ray Harvey-Amer (2nd right) and members of Rainbows Across BordersQuest bannerCroydon Trans Group banner
Still more photos from the "One Love" event

Thanks to everyone who contributed these photos,

Rev Dwayne Morgan at the MCC stallDavid Page, Chair of CAGS, with the CAGS stallHelen Doe of the Croydon Trans GroupThe CAGS stallSome of the Rainbow SingersThe Regeneration Project stallBanners and balloons in North EndBalloons and bannersSusan, conductor of the Rainbow SingersRoger Burg (right) one of the main organisers, with his partner Ross BurgessRainbow Singers Across Borders, taking a rest between songsSome of the Rainbow SingersRoss in front of the CAGS stallRainbow Singers Across BordersThe Purley Quakers stallRainbow Singers and One Love flags
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