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Remembrance Sunday: wreath dedicated to LGBTQ+ soldiers

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On Sunday November 8, Royal Air Force veteran David Bonney and human rights campaigner/LGBTQ+ activist Peter Tatchell laid a rainbow wreath at London’s Cenotaph to commemorate LGBTQ+ soldiers who lost their lives during the second world war.

Although ceremonies across the country were affected by the new Covid-19 lockdown, Bonney said: “It is important to keep laying rainbow wreaths” in remembrance of those who are often erased from historical narratives about the war.Tatchell said there were approximately 250,000 to half a million LGBTQ+ soldiers, sailors and aircrew who served in the second world war.

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