LGBTQ+ businesses help spearhead Britain’s economic recovery
Being a successful entrepreneur is not always about being in the right place at the right time. Peter Darrant-Parkes opened Britain’s first dedicated LGBTQ+ business hub, the Pride Media Centre, in 2019 – months before COVID-19 brought the country and its economy to a virtual standstill. But while the pandemic could not have been foreseen, the centre’s unlikely location – in an old warehouse complex in a deprived area of the northeastern city of Gateshead – was carefully considered. “We could have had a shiny office in Manchester or Birmingham…
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