No 978 Monday 3rd- Sunday 9th July 2023
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SEE MAIN AD ON PAGE 13 n 28 June, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village, brutally dragging customers and staff out of the venue. The date is now recognised as Pride Day around the world, and the month of June is known as Pride Month, where the community, now correctly referred to as LGBTIQA+, can come together and be proud of who they are.
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However, despite the passage of over half a century of time, many feel that the progress achieved for the community has started a dangerous reversal, led in Spain by the far-right VOX group, who are against gay relationships, to the extent that they want to revoke the same-sex marriage laws, and as we have already seen with their new collaborations with the PP, even want to banish the symbolism of the community, namely the rainbow flag.
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Vox leader, Santiago Abascal, pledged to curtail gay pride parades, heaped ridicule on diversity lessons, and has even drawn parallels between homosexuality and bestiality, and this week claimed the rainbow flag is a symbol of paedophiles. One of the first PP and VOX agreements was in the Valencia town of Náquera, and one of their first acts to affirm the collaboration was an immediate ban on displaying rainbow flags, introduced during Pride Month. Although, with a PSOE led campaign, residents adorned as many buildings as possible with the rainbow flag, and even a hefty protests through the streets, so although the intention may have backfired, the notion still stands, because the PP there has facilitated such hatred.
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