What is Pride? Community Discussion

Our Glasgow Community Project holds a community discussion each quarter. They take the format of a panel discussion and allow our community members to engage with questions that are directly related to their LGBTQ+ identities and therefore and central to their lives. With Glasgow Pride being held in July 2018 we took the opportunity to present a panel of LGBT organisations/collectives that have a specific interest in Pride to get both their and our community members views on what they want from Pride events.

Proposed Question: ‘Modern Pride events originated from protests to improve the rights of LGBT people. LGBT rights movements have been successful in changing laws in many countries over the last few decades. Is Pride now for celebration or is protest still needed?’

We proposed the above question as a starting point for the discussion as the LGBT rights movement grew out of protest. Modern pride events, although they may often still brand themselves as protests also tend to be highly commercialised and focus on celebration. We wanted to speak to community members in Glasgow about if they felt Pride in Glasgow and Prides in general were meeting what they as part of the LGBTQ+ community expected from the events.

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