{"id":2578,"date":"2015-05-12T21:56:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-05-12T21:56:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:56:29","slug":"raising-the-flag-at-notts-county-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/05\/raising-the-flag-at-notts-county-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Flag at Notts County Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I attended the first event held this week in\u00a0Nottinghamshire for IDAHoBiT 2015.<\/p>\n

Representatives\u00a0from the council, police, emergency services, unions, colleges, universities, and local LGBT groups and organisations made their way to Notts County Hall to watch\u00a0the rainbow flag being raised by the river.<\/p>\n

It was wonderful to see so many in attendance<\/a> and to see people of all age ranges there too. The organiser Richard Townsley did\u00a0a great job in bringing together a diverse range of people from the LGBT community from all over the county.\u00a0A lot of us ended up doing\u00a0some speedy networking and swapped emails\u00a0whilst we slurped\u00a0tea before we all\u00a0walked outside to the flag poles for the speeches, flag raising, and photo taking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully it was a windy morning so the flag was\u00a0flapping merrily whilst it was being hoisted to the top. Very photogenic.<\/p>\n

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The short ceremony\u00a0was quite a moving and auspicious moment for me. One of those\u00a0speaking (Sorry, I’m terrible with remembering names!)\u00a0mentioned\u00a0the launch of a new anti-hate crime campaign run by the police, as well as how any\u00a0homophobia, biphobia and transphobia would not be tolerated. Another\u00a0also spoke of how the LGBT community needs to unite\u00a0and stand together to support each other.<\/p>\n

I’m sure these kinds of sentiments get mentioned every year at these kinds of events. \ud83d\ude1b<\/span> But it felt particularly\u00a0relevant to me as the LGBT community in my area does feel\u00a0very fragmented at the moment. Lots of smaller groups exist in Nottinghamshire\/the East Midlands without ever working together, talking to each other\u00a0or, in some cases, being\u00a0aware of each other’s existence at all.<\/p>\n

After the flag had been raised, the leader of Notts Trans Hub<\/a>\u00a0and I were discussing these things, along with\u00a0how so much\u00a0prejudice and discrimination exists between different groups of\u00a0LGBT people. How discrimination and prejudice causes LGBT people to turn on each other. One thing that we talked about was how some\u00a0<\/em>pansexuals have appropriated the meaning of bisexuality, then wrongly\u00a0labelled bisexuals as transphobic and upholders of a gender binary.<\/p>\n

Yesterday made me glad BiTopia, QT Notts and the Notts Trans Hub support each other and are forming close relationships.\u00a0It also encouraged me to overcome the fear caused by\u00a0previous biphobic incidents of discrimination and harassment at\u00a0LGbt events and engage more with LGbt organisations in the future.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday morning I attended the first event held this week in Nottinghamshire for IDAHoBiT 2015. Representatives from the council, police, emergency services, unions, colleges, universities, and local LGBT groups and organisations made their way to Notts County Hall to watch the rainbow flag being raised by the river. It was wonderful to see so many in attendance and … Continue reading Raising the Flag at Notts County Hall<\/span> →<\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,389,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-activism","category-my-bi-life","category-running-a-bi-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}