On Monday, the discount clothing retailer Primark announced that they were ‘super proud’ to be partnering with LGBT equality charity Stonewall, and selling a range of merchandise for this year’s Pride season.

Prides up and down the country have expressed concern that the proceeds from this deal go not to the 140 organisations that put these events on, but rather to an organisation with a £5million reserve and which has never organised a Pride, and yet has been quick to criticise them. Pride organisations have to raise every penny to put on their events, and every year it’s a struggle. In recent years, a number of Pride events (such as Bridgwater Pride, Burnley Pride, and Bradford Pride) have been cancelled due to a lack of funds, though thankfully some are returning this year. Just last week, Newcastle’s Northern Pride announced they are scaling back because of a lack of sponsorship.

And quite legitimately, some in Europe are asking why Stonewall, a UK charity, should benefit from the sales of this range in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal.

And then questions started to be raised about where the items in this range are being produced. An early warning came in a photo posted on Twitter, showing that at least one of these t-shirts is produced in Turkey, the country ranked third worst in Europe for LGBTI equality, where Prides are banned, where police fire on Pride activists with rubber bullets and tear gas, and where the governor of the capital has banned all LGBTI events. Read more via HuffPost