Pride matters to me. As a young gay man, I cherish the memories I made at my first Pride in Brighton, and while I won’t tell you what happened, let me just say I was there, it was great fun, and I was still there the next morning!
This year, Pride Month is a reminder of all the extraordinary progress we’ve made in the last 50 years, and the huge milestones we’ve achieved: Equal marriage, gay adoption, the equalisation on the age of consent, gay and bisexual men being able to donate blood, LGBTQ+ personnel serving in the armed forces.
The list goes on. The LGBTQ+ community has never been a homogenous community. We’ve always been different, and it is that celebration of individualism and our collective bonds that has defined the last 50 years.
We are all different, but all equal. Whilst we should rightly celebrate the achievements of the last 50 years, the overturning of Roe v.