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Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month: a cerebral palsy lens
LGBTQ+ History Month celebrates LGBTQ+ culture, history, and achievements. It is also a time to think about the progress we still need to make. You may hear the word intersectionality this month. This means that some people face more than one type of discrimination. For example, someone can be both gay and disabled. CP…
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Where Sexuality and Cerebral Palsy Meet: An Intersectional Perspective
LGBT+ History Month invites us to reflect not only on visibility and progress, but also on whose stories are still too often marginalised. At the intersection of sexuality and disability — specifically cerebral palsy — those stories are frequently overlooked. Yet for many people, identity is never singular. Sexuality and…
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what is going on , what happens when staff don’t know
my young lady who received me on the first visit to the job centre UC ID proof freely admitted to not knowing things but equally didn’t want to disturb anyone she felt did know ,to find out . she seemed quite young . Are job centres educating these younger members of staff adequately ? this was my one and only first visit…
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Calling the All-Wales CP Network
Calling the Welsh CP Network. Good afternoon. I'm preparing for the second online Welsh CP Network meeting. It's taking place on Tuesday 17 February at 6pm. Last month, we mentioned topics we would like to focus on, and this is shaping our Network. This week, I spoke to a Police Officer who delivers Hate Crime Awareness…
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LGBTQ+ Disabled People in Film and TV🌈📺️
Mainstream media has definitely made progress in LGBTQ+ representation over the last decade or so. We've seen characters come out, fall in love and lead entire storylines and have full arcs. Similarly, disabled characters have slowly begun to appear more regularly on our screens but they are still massively…
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Happy Pride Month 2025 🌈😄
Happy Pride Month!🏳️🌈 June is LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) Pride Month. a time to celebrate love, equality, strength, resilience and of course, pride! But often, people who are both disabled and LGBTQ+ are left out of the conversation, have parts of their identity overlooked or misunderstood and…
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🌈 UK Pride History - How did we get to today? 🌈
The first UK pride march was held on the 1st July 1972 in London. The date was selected as the closest to the uprising of Stonewall Inn in 1969. There are mixed reports about the volume of attendees. Both the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and Campaign for Homosexuality Equality are noted as key organisers. An organiser, Peter…
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Research Participants wanted! Disability and Sexuality research
Hi Everyone! My name is Bev Enion, and I am a second-year PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield. I am researching how disability and intimacy are represented on Instagram. An Instagram account is not needed to take part in this research. I am looking to speak to women who are over the age of 18 and who have a…
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Research Participants wanted!
Hi Everyone! My name is Bev Enion, and I am a second-year PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield. I am researching how disability and intimacy are represented on Instagram. An Instagram account is not needed to take part in this research. I am looking to speak to women who are over the age of 18 and who have a…
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🌈 The History of Pride: The story of Stonewall Inn 1969 🌈
Prior to the actions of Stonewall Inn on the 4th July between 1965 and 1969 (before any marches) Pride Day Pickets took place. These were held by a collective of activist groups from east coast US known as the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO). Where, to remind people of the continued civil…
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Accessibility and Pride 2025 - Share Your Pride Photos!🏳️🌈
Over the years, I’ve been to a range of Pride events from smaller, grassroots celebrations in my local town to the city weekend festivals with headline acts like Manchester and Brighton. I even saw Gok Wan do DJ set at Manchester Pride 2023 which I’ve included a photo of below! 🤩 If you’ve never been to Pride before, I…
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Celebrating Pride Month Poem By Globster🌈😄
A big thank you to @Globster for providing the beautiful poem below! A poem called Celebrating Pride Month Time to celebrate Pride Month, where we shine a glorious light that burns bright on gorgeous individuals from our LGBTQ community. You are beautiful in your own right You all shine like wonderful stars that you all…
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Hi, my name is older01!
Hi, I’m no spring chicken and there’s much to say about my life - perhaps I could write a book one day! I’m in a same sex marriage and we have a primary aged son. I have several ailments but I rarely complain. My wife is my unpaid carer, and seems to complain about her lot far too often. Our child is my stepson and I love…
