Letters from London: Pride and Progress
There’s a lot to celebrate this year. Fifty years since the Stonewall riots in New York. This was a major landmark in our history. It’s an event that led to decades of change around the world. Now, it’s not only legal to be LGBTQI in 125 countries, but we can get married in 32 of them. Of course, that means there are 70 countries where being LGBTQI is illegal. And nine countries where it’s punishable by death. We’ve still got work to do. Here in London, I attended Pride at the end of June. My boyfriend and I held hands as we walked through Soho, and later along the South … Read more
