A DRAG double act who have lost thousands of pounds in bookings because of the coronavirus pandemic are staging their own Pride event in their back garden to broadcast live on Youtube.

Gemini Andro, alias Paul Burgess, and Creeping Miasma, also known as Stuart Crowther, will stage "Lime Pride" from 3pm on Sunday, June 21 in the grounds of the home Paul shares with his musician husband Jason Bromley.

Gemini and Miasma hit the headlines last October when they were a Youtube hit as The Vegan Queens, sharing their culinary expertise online in online videos.

They have recently we have moved back to our own channel on Youtube and have been migrating all of their content back there to have a total drag focus.

Gemini said: "This is in celebration, and of course to mark PRIDE season, we have planned to perform live streaming to the world.

"This is our own personal PRIDE Performance, after so many we had booked from the beginning of April until September, have already had to be cancelled."

The duo already have nearly 600 subscribers and are hoping to top 1,000 which entitle them to "superchat" status on Youtube, which means visitors can make monetary donations.

"We are absolutely skint," explained Gemini. "We've lost thousands in cancelled bookings. We were due to perform at the Stockport Mayor's Ball, and we had a residency at Revolution in Manchester which has gone.

"In addition, PRIDE festivals at Stockport, Bolton and Rochdale - where we were also due to perform - have all been cancelled along with ladies' nights and wedding receptions.

"This will be our own celebration of LIME PRIDE. If we can get above 1,000 subscribers we might be able to make some money back."

But Gemini added that they would also make charitable donations to the George House Trust, which supports people with HIV and the Albert Kennedy Trust which helps support and rehouse LGBT teenagers made homeless as a result of family breakdown.

"We're hoping we get good weather, but we don't care if we don't," he continued. "There's going to be live music, singing and comedy and my husband Jason Bromley will be special guest."

"We're hoping we get good support because we're absolutely skint at the moment.

"We will of course be practising social distance and keeping apart whilst we perform, but we thought it would be a lovely way to celebrate PRIDE, and to let as many people watch as we could.