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Color Outside the Lines goes to PRIDE again!

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Hey everyone 👋🏽. Managed to go to the London PRIDE parade again this year.

A small selection of images featuring people of colour (who are in the minority at the event):

My type of GIN; with Indians & Pakistani’s waving their flags together in Picadilly Circus 🥹

I ended the day at the Dean Street stage, by checking out The Queer Asian Takeover group (like in last year’s CotL1):

Ghetto Fabulous had some extraordinary dancers, including Raj(?) doubling up.

Unfortunately I can’t seem to access any of the information needed to give all the performers their dues (as I don’t have an Instagram account 🙄🤷🏾‍♀️), but here’s The Queer Asian Takeover’s (mother of the house) LuckyRoySingh’s account: https://www.instagram.com/luckyroysingh

If you wanna see way more, I’ve posted about it in the following linked Monday PT & yesterday’s LGBT+ threads:

Weekly LGBT+ Discussion
Monday Politics Rears Its Ugly Head Again

It’s worth noting that not everything is all joyful & happy:

Apparently international businesses are moving away from DEI & supporting Pride organisations: with 85 seeing a reduction in partnerships & more than 40 of them said the drop was at least a quarter less compared to last year. I knew the US elections would have an effect here but blimey the level and detail is sophisticated. Part of me is like fuck those companies, but then ultimately if we play by capitalist games we lose by them too 🤷🏾‍♀️…

Also I missed Chaka Khan at the Trafalgar Square stage 😱😭:

Still regardless of the unsettling realities, I hope all these heartwarming images of pride bring you some sense of peace, that there is joy & happiness in the world & it’s important to hold on to it.

Prompt: see or do anything fun this last weekend, or lately? I know it was a fourth of July weekend the past week?

Feel free to talk about anything else that ails ya!