Will Young says Pride parades are still relevant because they’re the moment LGBTQ people hand back ‘shame’ and ‘undo the brainwashing’ inflicted on them growing up.The Evergreen singer confessed he has battled feeling ‘wrong’ and was still too fearful to go to a parade until seven years ago — after music bosses once urged him to stay in the closet.‘The antithesis of Pride is shame,’ said the former Pop Idol champ, 42.‘I have to remind myself that I’ve grown up in a society — fair enough it was different times — but from a very young age where I’ve felt wrong and bad and evil actually.
And I didn’t see any representation and so a lot of shame is foisted upon people who do feel different and “not normal”.’Explaining the vitality of Pride,.