{"id":3457,"date":"2016-06-28T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T08:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwardlord.org\/2016\/06\/28\/my-message-at-pride-in-london-celebrating-loving-and-fighting-discrimination-together\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T08:11:36","slug":"my-message-at-pride-in-london-celebrating-loving-and-fighting-discrimination-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2016\/06\/my-message-at-pride-in-london-celebrating-loving-and-fighting-discrimination-together\/","title":{"rendered":"My message at Pride in London: celebrating, loving, and fighting discrimination together"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday 25 June, I had the privilege of speaking from the main stage of London’s LGBT+ Pride as Deputy Chair of Pride’s Community Advisory Board, representing bi people and communities. This is what I said:<\/p>\n

“It is twenty years since I first got involved in Pride in the Capital. <\/p>\n

And it was in that year, 1996, that bi and trans people were for the first time recognised in London Pride’s official title. <\/p>\n

Twenty years on we are still here, out and proud.   <\/p>\n

Whether we identify as bi, queer, pan or in any other way, we stand here shoulder to shoulder with our LGBT+ siblings fighting against homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. 
\nThat is what Pride is all about. <\/p>\n

Celebrating together;<\/p>\n

Fighting together;<\/p>\n

Loving together. <\/p>\n

Have a great day everyone. Happy Pride.” <\/p>\n

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On Saturday 25 June, I had the privilege of speaking from the main stage of London’s LGBT+ Pride as Deputy Chair of Pride’s Community Advisory Board, representing bi people and communities. This is what I said: “It is twenty years since I first got involved in Pride in the Capital.  And it was in that… Read More<\/a><\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,320,63,15,502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi","category-equality-inclusion","category-lgbt","category-pride","category-pride-in-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/9286"}],"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=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}