How long have you been hosting the tent?
I’ve been involved with Pride every year since 1997 — except for two. I took over the organisation of the cabaret tent in 2002. It holds a thousand people, so it’s a good crowd. Everyone raises their game and I get the best view. In the days before the community had the support it gets now, if a Pride event was going on, it was the drag queens who raised the money. We did endless charity fund-raisers and never seemed to get any recognition.