With a slight air of “oh lumme, I thought I had another five minutes before I was speaking<\/i>“, this is what I said at the closing event of Bolton’s second LGBT Pride, on the steps of Bolton Town Hall. <\/p>\n
I figured that on a cold windy evening they wanted something short and sweet, so I reflected on how different from many other Prides the weekend had been. B throughout, T throughout, and with more of a mix of ages and skin hues than just about any other Pride I’ve been to.<\/p>\n
“Hello and thank you for inviting me along.<\/p>\n
“This weekend has been Bolton Pride but it opened with Bi Visibility Day on Friday. The eighteenth year we have celebrated that date. <\/p>\n
“Bi Visibility Day started as a celebration of bisexual space. In the years it has grown hugely and was marked in about twenty countries with getting on for a hundred events this year.<\/p>\n
“But it started because too many of us had found that we were pushed out, excluded, from LGBT space. We were only welcome if somehow we only brought a part of who we were.<\/p>\n
“But here, at Bolton Pride, and in the run up to Pride here what I have seen in Bolton’s LGBT+ group and the organising team, is the opposite of that story. <\/p>\n
“So I want to say thank you: thank you to the team who put this weekend together and to all the people who have come along to the event, for giving us a postive inclusive pride that welcomed and reached out to us regardless, that was open to all of us and lived all of its LGBT letters and more.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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