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  • Our Sacred Rainbow Flag, by Mala (Nim)

    Our local high street in Havering, London, has had nylon St George's flags attached to almost every lamppost over the last 6 months. Recently, our MP also defected from the Conservatives to Reform, and in May, Reform also won majority control of the local council.

    It has been less than a month, and already the councillors have stopped our town hall from raising the rainbow flag (a tradition for over 10 years) and have requested that all local libraries scale back pride events. My initial reaction was anger and disappointment; growing up in this area as a queer non-binary South Asian, I was well aware of the racism and homophobia, so seeing the flag at the town hall was a much welcomed sign of progress and a visual representation of change.

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  • From Pride To Power, by Shokti

    LGBTQ+ Pride was created to be the antidote to the SHAME that was forced onto queer people for centuries, and is as important today as it's ever been for that shame has deep roots. The Catholic Church long ago declared same sex relations a sin (one its priests, monks and even popes often succumbed to!)– and eradicated heretical groups who did not agree (so associated was queerness and heresy that the word buggery, derived from the Bogomil heretics who originated in Bulgaria, originally was a term for a heretic). Reformation Protestant  Martin Luther believed that same sex desire comes, “undoubtedly from Satan, who, after people have once turned away from the fear of God, so powerfully suppresses nature that he beats out natural desire and stirs up a desire that is contrary to nature.”

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