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#londonpride

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Marco Hackney

A friend of mine wrote the following today and he's 100% right!

#PrideLondon #GayPride #LondonPride

So, I reached out to Pride in London today to ask about this year's march.
Me: "Given that a number of large companies in the US (e.g. X, Google) have decided to do away with DEI, wiping out progress in equality for minority and marginalised groups, can we be assured that these companies will NOT be allowed to participate in this year's march? "
PIL: "Thanks for your email. Pride in London assess all parade application and we will make determination during this process. It is important to note that parade groups are LGBTQ+ employee networks."
Me: "Thanks for the response. Although I appreciate these are employee groups, I also think it's important to note that these companies often use Pride as a marketing opportunity. We can't allow them to exploit us for publicity whilst working with our oppressors."

I think it's important that for such a high profile event we need to make sure that companies that will work with our oppressors shouldn't hijack our parade as part of a cynical pink washing marketing exercise. If you agree, let Pride In London know.

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Kestral

Today is London Pride - or rather “Pride in London” - the corporate entity that inhabits the husk of one of the world’s oldest pride marches.

Among its sponsors are a tabloid newspaper that has run more anti-trans stories in the past 5 years than any other single issue.

Year after year they fail to address fundamental complaints about inclusion and safety, corporate interference, and a lack of representation in their leadership.

I throw no shade at anyone attending - there’s no major alternative and I know how important pride can be.

But we deserve better. You deserve better.

No pride in corporate pinkwashing. No pride in rainbow capitalism.

Pride in our diversity, in our community, in our resilience and strength and love.

#PrideInLondon#LondonPride#NotGoingToPrideButStillFuckingProud
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Tom

In most countries there is a complicated relationship between state agents like the #police and the #LGBT+ community.

When they were first permitted to march in uniform at #LondonPride that was a historic moment.

According to some statistics you're more likely to experience homophobia giving a victim statement to the police than you are in the Army's basic training; and the Army is far more likely to do something about it if you complain. Even at their best, our police are the sharp edge of a structure that by design favours wealthy cishet white men.

Meanwhile, inquiries have condemned several police forces, most notably the Met, for their institutional homophobia. And the pattern of reports of the last few years suggests this is increasing. At least one Police and Crime Commissioner stood at the last election on an explicitly anti-LGBT platform

All of this makes me want to reject police participation in Pride. As an institution, they have shown us that they continue to exist in opposition to us.

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DaN McKee

I was in London yesterday, to see A Strange Loop, and watching that powerful reflection on the impact of religious-based homophobia (especially on the same day as London’s Pride festival!) reinforced the importance to me of ensuring Religious Education in UK schools doesn’t reproduce religious bigotry, and that it actively challenges harmful religious narratives of exclusion that can make our LGBTQ+ students feel victimised and attacked in the supposedly safe-space of the classroom rather than amplify them. I speak about some of the ways I’ve tried to challenge religious homo/trans/bi phobia in my own RE teaching in my book, Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher ( earthislandbooks.com/product-p ) and recommend it as reading for any current RE/RS teacher.

#RETeacher#RE#ReligiousEducation
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Blake (Pandora Blake)

Took kiddo into London yesterday for a Pride picnic with my polycule and burner friends. I wasn't sad to miss the parade but it was so cool travelling into town at the same time as thousands of queers! On the train it was all rainbow and trans flag colours, lots of very gay hand-holding, and I was like, yes, this is the correct amount of queer visibility. It made it so comfortable to be out in public.

Selfie of me smiling and wearing sunglasses, my autism-friendly earplugs on a rune necklace, a large handmade badge with a picture of a vulva and the word "boy", and a t-shirt with a picture of a rainbow and a rhino, and the slogan "Real unicorns have curves"
#pride#queer#lgbt
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