PRIDE
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Welcome to the Make Your Mark: Pride Colour Trail
We are here to share some information about Pride and the LGBTQ+ community.
What is Pride?
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Pride is celebrated in the month of June, as that was the month when the Stonewall riots took place.
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The Stonewall riots were important protests that took place in 1969 in the US, that changed gay rights for a lot of people in America and around the world.
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Pride is a celebration of people coming together in love and friendship, to show how far LGBTQ+ rights have come, and how in some places there's still work to be done.
LGBT+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. The + is an inclusive symbol to mean 'and others' to include people of all identities.
Pride month is about acceptance, equality, celebrating the work of LGBTQ+ people, education in LGBTQ+ history and raising awareness of issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community.
It also calls for people to remember how damaging homophobia was and still can be.
Pride is all about being proud of who you are no matter who you love.
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Some more resources with information about Pride and LGBTQ+ can be found below.
CBBC
Stonewall
Isle Listen IOM
The Proud Trust
