This year marks 50 years of Pride, so it seems only fitting that .uk goes above and beyond in our ongoing LGBTQ+ support, through a wealth of content that not only celebrates all things Pride, but also share stories, take time to reflect and raises awareness for the community this Pride Month. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at more stories like this, check our news page. It really was change and changes like that don’t happen very often.’ ‘GLF signalled a real change in British society. ‘I think the 50th anniversary of Pride is good both intrinsically in itself but also just because it represents the sense that there is historical memory. ‘Neither of those things were available before gay liberation and they both come out of gay liberation and I think one can identify them both as being gay Pride,’ he added. Simon said to him Pride was about ‘having a sense of your own personal dignity, to make love with who you like and a sense of belonging to a social constituency’. ‘We had chants, “two, four, six, eight, gay is just as good as straight”, all sorts of typical march slogans. ‘I can remember thinking at the time, this is remarkable, it was like a GLF meeting but a GLF meeting on the march,’ he said. The Independent is the official publishing partner of Pride in London 2022 and a proud sponsor of NYC Pride.Simon Watney said the London’s first Pride march in 1972 felt ‘astonishing’ (Picture: Simon Watney) The Republican this year signed into law a controversial piece of legislation banning LGBT+ issues from being discussed in Florida’s classrooms – widely known as “Don’t Say Gay”. It’s also inappropriate to subsidize political activism of a private corporation.”
He told reporters: “Companies are free to engage or not engage with whatever discourse they want, but clearly it’s inappropriate to be doing tax dollars for professional sports stadiums. Florida’s biggest baseball side has also more recently joined the “It Gets Better” campaign to fight bullying in youth sport.įlorida governor Ron DeSantis criticised the team on Friday for advocating for tighter gun control following the deaths of 19 children and two teachers in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and said he would withhold millions of dollars in funding for a training ground. The Tampa Bay Rays have long shown support for the LGBT+ community and were the first professional sports team to support same-sex marriage with an amicus brief in the Supreme Court, the report said. The other players were identified as Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs and Ryan Thompson, and it was not clear if there were others who chose not to wear the Pride uniform. The Pride Night celebration was followed by a defeat for the Tampa Bay Rays, who were playing the Chicago White Sox. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. He continued: “The club has placed itself at ground zero of a political battle despite widespread LGBTQ support on the team.” “Will someone please show me the Bible passage that says ‘Thou shalt not wear a rainbow on thou’s clothing’ “, wrote LGBT+ sports journalist Cyd Zeigler. Some of whom said the rebuttal undermined the team’s support of the LGBT+ community. While “more than half” of players participated in the “Pride Night” by wearing rainbow colours, the decision taken by the five Tampa Bay Rays pitchers angered many online.
“But when we put it on our bodies, I think a lot of guys decided that it’s just a lifestyle that maybe - not that they look down on anybody or think differently - it’s just that maybe we don’t want to encourage it if we believe in Jesus,” he said.Īdam continued by explaining that it was a “hard decision” but “ encouraged us to live a lifestyle that would abstain from that behavior, just like encourages me as a heterosexual male to abstain from sex outside of the confines of marriage.