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The British LGBT Awards have dropped sponsorship deals with Shell and BP (June 2023) after nominees and judges began pulling out of the competition.
Amid the latest cultural backlash against the fossil fuel industry, the awards event said it had “revised” its corporate sponsors. Overnight, Shell and BP were removed from its list of 2023 supporters.
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The announcement comes after the comedian Joe Lycett and the drag artist Cheddar Gorgeous joined a host of nominees and judges dissociating themselves from the event. Divina de Campo was the latest star to reject her nomination, telling organisers: “There’s no pride on a dead planet.”
“It doesn’t mean a whole lot being an influencer when everyone is dead or fighting over food,” she said. “We are living through a time where huge corporate greed is creating untold misery for millions in the UK and [BP and Shell] are a big part of that. Allowing these companies to pinkwash themselves is not the answer when they are part of the problem.”
