Laura Mackay, Just Like Us CEO, reflects on their time at primary school and the charity’s aim to “create safe, inclusive and supportive environments for LGBTQIA+ young people”.

WORDS BY LAURA MACKAY, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF JUST LIKE US There was an area in the school playground that was ours.

Before school, every break time and lunchtime we’d be there, kicking the football around, scuffing up our school shoes good and proper.

It was magical; the concrete surface, no barrier to vigorous slide tackles and glorious goalkeeping. To be victorious was vital.

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