ASOS have recently teamed up with LGBTQ+ youth charity, Exist Loudly to launch a limited-edition collection through their exclusive COLLUSION brand. This is the first global brand partnership for Exist Loudly, which was founded by Tanya Compas. As a youth worker, content creator and champion of queer, Black communities, Tanya wanted to create an organisation […]
The Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, signed by former president, Goodluck Jonathan in 2013 was a horrible time for queer people in Nigeria. I remember feeling so defeated the day I heard the news. Everything felt hopeless and I felt obligated to perform compulsory heterosexuality before I officially came out to myself and met other amazing […]
Uganda’s LGBT+ community suffered yet another setback in May when lawmakers approved a bill to further outlaw same-sex relations. At Pride Uganda, we see this as a dangerous development that will only serve to fuel homophobic sentiment and increase violence against our community. The Sexual Offences Bill was approved by parliament on 3rd May and now awaits […]
June was named Pride Month in remembrance of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969 and it promptly became a month for LGBT+ people to exist loudly and visibly in all shades of the rainbow, across the whole world. President Bill Clinton was the first President to recognize the month of June as the ‘Gay and […]
The beginning of this year has been difficult with the outbreak of Coronavirus which has impacted everyone across the world in one way or another. As we enter Pride month and are thinking of ways to celebrate our history and 50 years since the first Pride march whilst feeling heavy by fighting racism and police brutality, […]
In the United States, the month of June has been recognised as Pride Month for decades. Its establishment is a direct response to the Stonewall Riots that happened in 1969. Stonewall is a well-known landmark moment in the fight for LGBT+ rights and voices. The riots led to the foundation of LGBT+ organisations, many of […]
Those who belong to marginalised communities are probably familiar with the (often infuriating) retort that ‘things are better now than they were!’ And for the most part this is objectively true; industrialised slavery is now a thing of the past (and, if you didn’t know, we just had the first black American president); the battle […]
