Pride In London Chairs Resign Following Accounts of Bullying and Racism

According to Yahoo News, Pride In London has announced two of its co-chairs and five most senior staff will resign from their posts following horrific accounts of racism and bullying.

This comes after the organization's highest ranking Black member, communications director Rhammel Afflick, resigned over a toxic, racist culture steeping the LGBTQ advocacy organization.

Today, co-chairs Michael Salter-Church and Alison Camps announced their resignation from the organization "with immediate effect."

Camps and Salter-Church, who served as an advisor to Conservative Party and founded Pride In London in 2012, will be replaced as chairs by Christopher Joell-Deshields in an interim capacity.

In an interview with Pink News following the announcement, Afflick expressed his pleasure with the decision, but maintained there was still more work to be done.

"This is a milestone moment – many volunteers of colour will feel vindicated following the latest departures. But the accountability doesn't stop here," Afflick said. "An entirely new leadership, with a robust mandate, is needed to break away from Pride's long history of getting it wrong for Black and brown people in LGBT+ communities."

The three other directors who tendered their resignations were not mentioned in the announcement letter.

"All wish to put on record their thanks to LGBT+ communities for the opportunity and honour of serving as volunteers, to wish the new leadership team every success and to reaffirm their commitment to hearing and standing with marginalised communities," the letter added.

The organisation added that the decision was made due to an "urgent need for Pride in London to create a more inclusive environment, which centres Black volunteers, people of colour and other marginalised community groups."

These resignations come after a variety of organisations have parted ways with Pride In London over the past few years, most notably Stonewall in 2018.