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susanreads) wrote2023-08-13 10:00 pm
susanreads) wrote2023-08-13 10:00 pm
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Pride march
Yesterday I went on my first ever Pride march! It's the first one I've had the chance to go on in the sense that I knew about it - there was one (the first ever in Colchester) last year, but I didn't know that (or that there was a Colchester Pride at all in 2022, I guess I was still living under a rock) until talking to someone yesterday while waiting for the march to start.
I think the first ever Colchester Pride was in 2017, and again I didn't know about it till afterwards. I went to the next two, and then You Know What happened. They were basically festivals, at and in the grounds of an arts venue. I didn't go to the festival part this year: the programme looked like mainly cabaret, which is not my thing (I'm an old fogey), and although mostly outdoors, crowds of unmasked strangers still = No Thanks.
Pride should be a protest! It's not as if we don't have plenty to protest about, specifically as queer people and in general!
*waves tiny flag*
I think the first ever Colchester Pride was in 2017, and again I didn't know about it till afterwards. I went to the next two, and then You Know What happened. They were basically festivals, at and in the grounds of an arts venue. I didn't go to the festival part this year: the programme looked like mainly cabaret, which is not my thing (I'm an old fogey), and although mostly outdoors, crowds of unmasked strangers still = No Thanks.
Pride should be a protest! It's not as if we don't have plenty to protest about, specifically as queer people and in general!
*waves tiny flag*