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Some pride events happening ths year...

Hello everyone! As summer is upon we will be getting pride events happening! Tomorrow for example Canterbury pride in Kent's only city is happening with Booty Luv, Atomic Kitten's Natasha Hamilton, drag queen - Drag with No Name who has been doing drag for 25 years and many more. The best part is this is free and you do not need a ticket! Kent has other prides such as Medway (which last year saw some great acts including Sydnie Christmas from Britain's Got Talent), Dover, Deal, Folkestone and Ashford to name a few. This is just one county. There will be pride events around the whole country from the big to the small.
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Pride month is here...

June is pride month and that means three things. 1: a celebration of who we are, 2: a reminder of what we have been having to deal with from the past to now, and 3: a fight for a better, more equal future.
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Welcome to June...

It's pride month people! A solid reminder to everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community s here and we are not going anywhere. We have our rights under threat all the time, especially trans and non-binary people. But hey, the fight continues and I hope one day things will improve. For this month I will be continuing the LGBTQIA+ theme alongside a new author for author of the month. For June, the author of the month is going to be Welsh lesbian author Sarah Waters. I shall be looking forwards to reading some of her stuff throughout this month. So as summer arrives and pride month provides a constant reminder to our battles and history, celebrate with a good LGBTQIA+ book. Until next time, Thomas (they/them).
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What I have read this month...

Finally the end of June is coming. That means it is time to disclose on some of the things I have been diving into. I thought I had posted this on Friday but it obviously did not post so have it now! I will osts again later for the first post of June.
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Poetry collection review: May Day (2024) by Jackie Kay.

Hi everyone. Sorry for not posting on Monday but I was not feeling great. I think it is this heat here in the U.K as the weather has been rather hot lately. I am never fan of the weather being as hot as it has been. Todays post is the final review of the month that I had planned and therefore the post I had planned for Monday will moved to June as the theme of the month will continue of course for a second month. Speaking of review, I am diving deep into the 2024 poetry collection May Day  by Jackie Kay.
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Short story collection review: Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay.

Today I am reviewing Jackie Kay's short story collection Reality, Reality .
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The pink triangle. (And the black one too!)

Recently I saw something about the pink triangle which I am here to explain, if you do not know what it means. For the LGBTQIA+ community it is a part of our history and even in recent times it was shared by the current president of the United States of America, Donald Trump. The pink triangle has its roots in history as being used by the Nazis to mark those in concentration camps as gay. It was seen as a negative thing which even in years to come, gay men still had their suffering. Since then, the pink triangle has been reclaimed by the LGBTQIA+ as a symbol of resistance and freedom, similarly how the word 'queer' was reclaimed by the LGBTQIA+ community. One example I remember is watching RuPaul's Drag race UK series 4 and a certain Cheddar Gorgeous came out in one outfit baring resemblence to the pink triangle with a pink triangle over her mouth too. ¹ However Trump shared  article with a red no entry sign over the pink triangle. I remember seeing this but it seems Trump ...
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