![]() ![]() Glbtq Americans face discrimination from a WhiteHouse administration bent on seizing every opportunity to engage in damaging and antagonistic policies. I experienced a sense of melancholy after the march ended. I could have marched in this glow of pride and festive fervor all day. The entire march, people cheered and celebrated simply being out and proud. I turned to my friend, who has known me through many positive and awful times and told her that this was indescribably spectacular. My guide had a friend’s child sitting on her lap during the route, and her mother, a woman who convinced me to move to California 15 years ago, walked on my right. The human guide assigned to me is a wheelchair user, and I held on tight to the back rest of her chair, my guide dog Vander on my leftside. From that point on, my feet hardly touched the ground. Just when I thought my feet might be stuck to the pavement forever due to immobility, we got the cue to march. As we anticipated our time to move, morning fog rolled back, sunshine enveloping all of us. Wearing my BE SEEN T-shirt, offered to all LightHouse marchers, I waited over 2 hours with hundreds of other people in front of and in back of our contingent to begin walking the parade route. This celebration is so gigantic that I feared participating in the past due to its sheer size, but the LightHouse of San Francisco assembled a contingent to march this year, so I decided it was time to be part of an annual San Francisco tradition that always seemed elusive and somewhat scary to me. 2įor the first time in my 15 years as a California resident, I marched in the annual San Francisco Pride parade in June. President’s Message: BPI: Success in Moving Forward. Please limit articles to 500 words maximum.īlind LGBT Pride International (BPI) offers advocacy, education, programs, alliances and support for persons who are blind or vision impaired and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. Or, you may write an article and submit it for consideration. Please include the source of each article you forward. If you find articles that you think might be of interest, please forward them to the newsletter editor at. We are always looking for articles of interest to our LGBT community. Inside Out is published four times each year, in March, June, September, & December. Then if you think we've earned it, sign up to support our queer creatives anytime.Catch up on all the news, articles, and information from the most recent issue of our newsletter. In fact, over 75 people have already claimed their discount a nd there is only a limited number left.īut right now, all we ask is that you give our newsletter a go. ![]() We've only been around since January 2022, but very cool people like comedian Joe Lycett, the MD of Forbes in Europe, and the founder of National Student Pridehave already joined our movement - and become QueerAF members. Right now we have a 40% early adopter discount, which means you can chip in just £4.20 a month to make this possible, get a shout out on our socials and have early access to our content. We're doing this because the media doesn't represent, hire or understand us - it's failing us.īy helping underrepresented writers to build their media careers together we can change the media so it works for all LGBTQIA+ people. Our approach means you get a top-quality read, held to the highest standards while helping to change the media landscape with a new generation of queer creatives. It's where we commission and publish the work of the queer creatives we're mentoring. Our members know that our newsletter is more than a good read. They fund our work supporting a new generation of queer creatives to start and build their media career.They help keep this newsletter free for everyone because information about LGBTQIA+ lives shouldn't be a luxury.People who pay for this newsletter do two things. ![]()
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