It was fun, but with the route packed with applauding onlookers I was forced to question what there is left to prove. In fact, my Mum asked that very question this mroning.
All I can say is that being gay may well be pretty much accepted in London, even being trans isn't that much of a deal, but that isn't true for the rest of the country. Some regions of Britain, particularly the more rural places, more or less might as well be nigeria when it comes to absence of tolerance.
So, having large (and accepted) march/party is more about broadcasting a message of tolerance to the rest of the country than it is to satisfy any need for the (rather smug and self-satisfied) gay community within London. Maybe that's me being patronising towards the rest of the country, but it can be difficult. keep to the Fen Causeway
however, my beer of the festival was, without any doubt, Stone Ruination IPA. With a bitterness count of over 100 it was absolutely fabulous. It's called Ruination cos that's what it does to your palete, after that you cna't drink anything else. Not that I wanted to.
I had it on both cask and keg (an ordering mistake), but the cask was so much better (being warm enough to taste helped). keep to the Fen Causeway
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Still waiting on a reply from the Greene King distributor here on whether they'll get Olde Trip at some point (and hoping Greene King doesn't ruin it now that Kimberley's not doing it anymore. I emailed a guy in Britain who said he could ship it over, but the cost was obscene. £95 for 10 bottles. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
It's very nice with 3 US brewery names on. keep to the Fen Causeway
Change and repent, bishop tells gays - Telegraph
The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, has defended traditional biblical teachings on homosexuality and said the Church should not be "rolled over by culture".
It may have felt like everyone in London was on your side at the Pride March but gay people are still persecuted across the UK. For some young gay kid who is too terrified to come out, Pride gives hope. Ad astra per aspera
However much f..wits like him believe that the canon is eternal, all faith is a cultural phenomenon and that which doesn't adapt, dies. Christianity has done back flips before in order to survive and will do so again. All of this hoo-hah about homosexuality is just political in-fighting between factions within the hierarchy. All sound and fury, signifying nothing (but pain for the gays whose lives are mere collateral damage) keep to the Fen Causeway
