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Glasgow Pride 2025

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As I write this, Glasgow Pride 2025 is this coming weekend and I’m volunteering with a LGBT local kids group helping them participate safely in the march. It’s a big one this year, with the route expanded to allow for a much bigger crowd than we’ve had before. For a few hours, Glasgow will come to a bit of a standstill to celebrate the cities queer community, which makes up around 7% of the total population of the city. We might be small but we’re people’s friends, work colleagues, brothers, sisters, favourite aunties and uncles, and, for some, mums and dads.


Engaging with Pride isn’t compulsory if you’re a member of the LGBT community, but for some of us it can be really important. It’s a safe place to stand with others like you and say “This is who I am and I exist.” As happens with many of us we may have lived a long time hiding who we are from ourselves and from the people around us. Pride is an opportunity to celebrate being our authentic selves and inviting the people we love into our whole lives.


It’s also a time for supporters of the LGBT community, whether that’s family members, friends, or just people who want to stand up and say they are there for us and have our back.


And we need that. Things are grim in lots of different ways right now.


Political parties, usually keen to demonstrate solidarity (yes, even the Tories) have been asked not to participate following the ongoing EHRC ‘guidance’ demanding the exclusion of trans people. Gender-criticals (it’s probably easier just to say “bigots” or “transphobes”) have been arguing in the courts that police support of Pride is unlawful, and this year it feels like there’s been attack after attack.


But the community has broad shoulders and we’re stronger together. The responsibility for taking on injustices doesn’t lie with any one person. The community is on it and the community is taking action. The community is there for when you need it, however you need it, and if you need to step back and collect yourself, the rest of us and our allies are there to support you.


Pride is a protest and a celebration of kindness and standing together as human beings.




I’ll be there on Saturday. If you’re in Glasgow, I hope you’ll considering turning up and showing your support! If you can’t make it in person, please consider donating to some of the LGBTQ+ charities below:





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