'We would like to offer our thanks to the public for alerting us to the situation,' the festival said.
Take That singer Howard Donald has been removed from the Groovebox Nottingham Pride Festival line-up.
He was set to co-headline the Groovebox event next month alongside Horse Meat Disco, ESSEL and Sam Sax. However, Howard's Likes on his Twitter page included criticism of an inclusive period campaign featuring trans men, as well as videos of anti-trans pundit Kellie-Jay Keen and a tweet calling for Disney to be "defunded" over holding a Pride in Concert event. There were also Likes of tweets from misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate.In response to the likes, Groovebox Nottingham Pride
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