A rainbow arch to celebrate the LGBT community in North Buckinghamshire has been destroyed by alleged arsonists.

On Saturday, September 11, around 14,000 people attended the Milton Keynes Pride Festival – one of many pride marches to have taken place across the county over the last month.

However, at approximately 6.45am on Sunday, September 12, a rainbow arch that was present at the event was vandalised.

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It has been suggested that the arch was ‘deliberately’ set on fire.

MKPF team are extremely saddened to discover that a person or persons have deliberately broken into the PRIDE site and...

Posted by Milton Keynes Pride Festival on Monday, 13 September 2021

In a Facebook post that was shared on September 12, the Milton Keynes Pride Festival said: “[The]MKPF team are extremely saddened to discover that a person or persons have deliberately broken into the PRIDE site and set fire to the beautiful rainbow arch that was donated by My Milton Keynes.

“Sadly, this incident shows that there is still so much work to be done within MK in regards to the homophobia, biphobia, lesphobia, transphobia and other forms of discrimination the LGBTQ+ community face.”

If anyone has any information regarding this, you are encouraged to call 101 and quote the reference number of 43210411776.