“Stand Against Suella”: Protest announced following Home Secretary’s gay asylum comments
Pride in London, in association with the African Rainbow Family LGBTIQ Equality, has announced the date and location of a protest “to protect our community from the government’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.” On Sunday 1 October, it will be held at Parliament Square at 3pm.
The protest was announced in response to Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s prior comments and address at the American Enterprise Institute, a centre right think tank in Washington DC, where she noted fear of being persecuted over being gay and/or a woman is not reason enough to claim asylum in the UK.
Braverman addressed the rising numbers of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by controversially arguing that nobody doing so is “fleeing imminent peril”.
Braverman acknowledged that, “there are vast swathes of the world where it is extremely difficult to be gay, or to be a woman.
