UK Pride groups suspend involvement of political parties

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1. It’s a bit of a shame that the Greens and Lib Dems have both been targeted by this ban when they’ve been consistently fairly strong on these issues but I get it regardless. Certainly no other major party has any business being included at Pride currently.

2. Good, politicians are so quick to shove LGBT people under the bus.

3. Don’t blame them. I don’t feel there is a party that represents my interests as a gay man. They definitely don’t if you are trans. They just use us for political clout when it suits them and then throw us under the bus when it doesn’t.

   Our lives are not pawns for there politics. Our existence isn’t political.

4. > The announcement comes after the Supreme Court ruled that the term “woman” in the Equality Act was defined by biological sex.

   > The ruling was welcomed by some campaigners representing lesbian, gay and bisexual people who say it protects single-sex groups, while others shared concerns about the impact on the trans community.

   Lmao, what a fucking weaselly third and fourth paragraph of the article by the BBC. The *vast* majority of ‘LGB’ people support trans people and their rights. But of course the BBC feels the need to focus on the tiny number (many of whom are part of ‘LGB’ organisations but aren’t actually queer themselves) who don’t.

5. we should be offering a seat to the ones that still give us the time of day (i.e. not the tories or labour). Saying “no politics at pride” isn’t going to help.

6. Not a good move.

   This could backfire awfully.

   you can think it cynical, but politicians value optics, and as long as they think getting a pride photo is good optics, then they’ll want to at least appear to support it. If they cant….you just made the whole cause less important to them.

   And the optics of having leading politicians at these events is important for the gay community. it shows social acceptability (just like brands commercially exploiting pride is a good thing). we lose that if we ban politicians.

7. Nothing says inclusion more than exclusion of people you don’t agree with.

8. Politicians cant be trusted, plain and simple. This is a good step forward.

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