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00:00I've probably been here for about 12 years. I live in a nearby village and I just can't quite believe that we have LGBTQ plus pride right here in Math, because honestly it would have been unheard of when I first moved here.
00:13Hello!
00:14What does pride mean to you?
00:18Sarah, what does pride mean to you?
00:20Just beautiful healing music, incredibly joy made, all of our lives, and the children are going to fuse their songs.
00:28I really like the fact that my country has started having a pride, I volunteer and help them out, I think the team are amazing, they do so much work, and we've got people coming from all over the world.
00:44It walks this line between on the one hand bringing people together and creating spaces where we can be free and be ourselves, but at the same time showing that we will be free and we will be ourselves.
00:57We will be ourselves in an act of defiance as much as an act of celebration.
01:01Pride to me is about community, about being visible, about being honest and open about who we are and celebrating that.
01:13And about standing up for ourselves as well and remembering that pride isn't just a celebration, it's also a very real protest.
01:24Every time we host an event like this, it's a political act and it's vitally important.
01:35Pride to me, particularly in rural places, is an opportunity for people to maybe think that they might be on their own, to come together and realise there's a whole community of people around them and celebrate that.
01:48Pride means celebration of who we are without shame or fear. Pride means accepting difference. Pride means being able to be all our wonderful queer selves without feeling like we have to hide it.
02:04Pride means joy and challenge maybe, like learning things that might be difficult or new. Pride means like a festival, feels like a big party.
02:16It's a celebration and for me it's about, there's a real joyousness in our queerness and being able to be open and be free and make a space for everyone to do that.
02:27And we think it's really important that we have visibility at this particular time because I think our rights are being eroded, I think trans rights are being eroded, I think homophobia is being endorsed by the rise of the right.
02:39Visibility and being local is really, really important at the moment and I'm really so pleased that we're doing it.
02:46Pride for me is like a mixture of the joyful celebration of all being together, celebrating LGBTQ people and the politics of it, which unfortunately is needed more and more.
02:57I'm standing in front of the trans flag. I'm wearing the closest I could get to a trans shirt because at the moment, although I'm a lesbian who's a bit genderqueer, although my rights in theory are still enshrined in law, my trans friends are not.
03:14Plus the fact that people think I look like a man means that I already get challenged in the toilets.
03:21So I know it's a bit of a cliche to talk about toilets, but at the moment it feels like we've just got to defend our right, the right of all our community, to just go about in public and do our thing like everybody else can.
03:32So Pride for me is partly political, it's partly fun.
03:36Amazing.
03:37Amazing.
03:38Let's go.
03:41Does this mean the property members don't want a woman, all this way?
03:44Is the incentivize the digital assets?
03:46Absolutely.
03:47Do what you want to watch?
03:49A thousand people don't want to go off than one person.
03:50I am...
03:54Whoever...
03:55There's this behind a one person...
03:57Is that kind?
03:58Is that high enough?
03:59You can't touch the millones...
04:00There's this being from this world.
04:03A thousand people don't want nothing to know.
04:06It's hardly a top reason.