Are corporations exploiting Pride?
One of the biggest things happening this month around the world is Pride Month, where the LGBT (that’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual for you know don't know what it stands for) community get together to celebrate. It's a worldwide celebration, with every city holding its own parade celebrating same-sex love. The history of the marches themselves goes back to the Stonewall marches when gay persons who stayed at the LGBT-friendly Stonewall Inn in New York in 1969 got fed up with police raiding their hotels and others like them which were gay, bi or trans-friendly rioted against the persecution by police. There were injuries and arrests. In 1970, there was the first Pride March. Fast forward to the start of July 2019, where there's a Pride march in London. The London Pride March will explode into a mass of colour, an awful amount of PVC and leather on show in uncomfortable places that wouldn't want me to hit up my local Ann Summers anytime soon, and lo...