{"id":279246,"date":"2025-07-21T06:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279246\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:15:19","slug":"scott-cuthbertson-the-entire-point-of-my-job-as-rainbow-project-ceo-is-to-no-longer-see-a-use-for-it-to-have-our-rights-remain-equal-to-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279246\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Cuthbertson: \u2018The entire point of my job as Rainbow Project CEO is to no longer see a use for it; to have our rights remain equal to everyone else\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ahead of Belfast Pride, Scott Cuthbertson talks about \u2018a difficult few years for LGBT people\u2019, the importance of allyship, and the rise in \u2018rural\u2019 Pride events\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scott Cuthbertson, CEO of the Rainbow Project\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/94f0575b-c703-46ff-95da-d9d9625ae72a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Scott Cuthbertson, CEO of the Rainbow Project<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The streets of Belfast will soon be awash with the colours of the rainbow as the city\u2019s annual Pride festivities begin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s 34 years since the first event in 1991 \u2014 nine years after homosexuality was decriminalised in Northern Ireland in 1982, 15 years after it had been decriminalised in England and Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of Belfast Pride, Scott Cuthbertson talks about \u2018a difficult few years for LGBT people\u2019, the importance of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,105219,1817,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-279246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-belfast-pride","10":"tag-derry-news","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114889760754995178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}