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May 23, 2019

ONE WEEK LEFT till Pride Glasgow !!!
We at Kaleidoscope can't wait to join Pride March through the city. If you'd like to join our group for the march, follow the link below to see event details/updates and let us know if you'll be joining us.
We plan to meet on 25th June at 11am at McLennan Arch next to Glasgow Green. See more details via link.

#Kaleidoscope #LGBTQ #PrideMonth #Rainbow #Pride #Equality #Love #Progress #Glasgow #PrideGlasgow #March #GlasgowGreen #McLennanArch

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ONE WEEK LEFT till Pride Glasgow !!! We at Kaleidoscope can't wait to join Pride March through the city. If you'd like to join our group for the march, follow the link below to see event details/updates and let us know if you'll be joining us. We plan to meet on 25th June at 11am at McLennan Arch next to Glasgow Green. See more details via link. #Kaleidoscope #LGBTQ #PrideMonth #Rainbow #Pride #Equality #Love #Progress #Glasgow #PrideGlasgow #March #GlasgowGreen #McLennanArch https://www.facebook.com/events/383808003763269

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Happy @portypride !!

We're wishing everyone the best today at Porty Pride over this weekend which is being hosted in Portobello, Edinburgh.

Most of the Porty Pride events are happening today and tomorrow. Including… dog walking, swimming, rollering, volleyball, cocktails, bagels, pizza, knitting, a book stall by Lavender Menace, planting, singing and lobbying for equal rights for all! See more info through their dedicated facebook event below.

The next Prides in Scotland will be Pride For All tomorrow in Edinburgh and next Saturday (25th) will be Pride Glasgow and Pride Edinburgh! Check our pages to see if there are any pride events close to you in Scotland.

#Pride #Pride2022 #Scotland #LGBT #LGBTQ #LoveIsLove #PortyPride #Edinburgh #Portobello

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Happy @portypride !! We're wishing everyone the best today at Porty Pride over this weekend which is being hosted in Portobello, Edinburgh. Most of the Porty Pride events are happening today and tomorrow. Including… dog walking, swimming, rollering, volleyball, cocktails, bagels, pizza, knitting, a book stall by Lavender Menace, planting, singing and lobbying for equal rights for all! See more info through their dedicated facebook event below. The next Prides in Scotland will be Pride For All tomorrow in Edinburgh and next Saturday (25th) will be Pride Glasgow and Pride Edinburgh! Check our pages to see if there are any pride events close to you in Scotland. #Pride #Pride2022 #Scotland #LGBT #LGBTQ #LoveIsLove #PortyPride #Edinburgh #Portobello https://www.facebook.com/events/972823863379856

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🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth – @osopepatrisse

Patrisse Cullors is a California-based political activist and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and spoken widely about the movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights.

Cullors’ activism began in the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles where she was trained by the left-of-center Labor Community Strategy Center (LCSC). She counts LCSC founder and former Weather Underground member Eric Mann as her personal mentor. Cullors helped turn fellow activist Alicia Garza’s Facebook post responding to the death of Trayvon Martin into the prolific #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on social media.

In 2017, she said that the movement would not meet with United States president Donald Trump just as it wouldn't have met with Adolf Hitler, as Trump "is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country — be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia". She has also called the United States the “world’s greatest perpetrator of war and the most extensive purveyor of human rights atrocities at home.”

The movement returned to national headlines and gained further international attention during the global George Floyd protests in 2020 following his murder by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. An estimated 15 million to 26 million people participated in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, making it one of the largest movements in the country's history. It comprised many views and a broad array of demands but they centered on criminal justice reform.

#PatrisseCullors #BlackLivesMatter #AliciaGarza #OpalTometi #TrayvonMartin #GeorgeFloydd #LGBT #LGBTQ #Activist #Discrimination

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🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth – @osopepatrisse Patrisse Cullors is a California-based political activist and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and spoken widely about the movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights. Cullors’ activism began in the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles where she was trained by the left-of-center Labor Community Strategy Center (LCSC). She counts LCSC founder and former Weather Underground member Eric Mann as her personal mentor. Cullors helped turn fellow activist Alicia Garza’s Facebook post responding to the death of Trayvon Martin into the prolific #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on social media. In 2017, she said that the movement would not meet with United States president Donald Trump just as it wouldn't have met with Adolf Hitler, as Trump "is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country — be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia". She has also called the United States the “world’s greatest perpetrator of war and the most extensive purveyor of human rights atrocities at home.” The movement returned to national headlines and gained further international attention during the global George Floyd protests in 2020 following his murder by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. An estimated 15 million to 26 million people participated in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, making it one of the largest movements in the country's history. It comprised many views and a broad array of demands but they centered on criminal justice reform. #PatrisseCullors #BlackLivesMatter #AliciaGarza #OpalTometi #TrayvonMartin #GeorgeFloydd #LGBT #LGBTQ #Activist #Discrimination

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#OnThisDay in 1995, was Scotland’s first ever Pride March (in Edinburgh)!!!

While there had been a string of gay pride rallies and marches in the eighties and nineties, never before had Scotland’s LGBT community been united in such a way and in such large numbers.

On the afternoon of June 17, 1995, Scotland’s capital city was awash with all the colours of the rainbow.
A crowd estimated at more than 3,000 people coalesced near the LGBT Centre at Broughton Street, then proudly made their way via Princes Street and the Mound towards the festival site at the Meadows.

The landmark event was the brainchild of Edinburgh University students Laura Norris and Duncan Hothersall, who were keen to emulate the incredible success of the Pride movement south of the border.

#LGBTQ #Pride #March #Gay #Edinburgh #Scotland #PrideScotland #LauraNorris #DuncanHothersall #EdinburghUniversity #Progress

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#OnThisDay in 1995, was Scotland’s first ever Pride March (in Edinburgh)!!! While there had been a string of gay pride rallies and marches in the eighties and nineties, never before had Scotland’s LGBT community been united in such a way and in such large numbers. On the afternoon of June 17, 1995, Scotland’s capital city was awash with all the colours of the rainbow. A crowd estimated at more than 3,000 people coalesced near the LGBT Centre at Broughton Street, then proudly made their way via Princes Street and the Mound towards the festival site at the Meadows. The landmark event was the brainchild of Edinburgh University students Laura Norris and Duncan Hothersall, who were keen to emulate the incredible success of the Pride movement south of the border. #LGBTQ #Pride #March #Gay #Edinburgh #Scotland #PrideScotland #LauraNorris #DuncanHothersall #EdinburghUniversity #Progress

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“You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.” - Acts 10:28

As the church wrestles with whether [LGBTQ+ people] ought to be embraced into the full life of the church, it is important to remember that the church has struggled with questions of membership from the very beginning. The primary conflict in the life of the early church had to do with another question: Should Gentiles, who do not keep the mosaic law, be received into the fellowship of the body of Christ?

To exclude a gospel-believing person from the church because she is same-sex attracted is to abandon the gospel of salvation by grace through faith, without question. And does the exclusion of such a person, if she refuses to give up the practice of homosexuality, also amount to an insistence on salvation by works of the law? What if she confesses the faith of the gospel, as did the Roman centurion Cornelius, who heard Peter preach in Acts 10? What if her life evidences the fruits of the Spirit, as did the Gentiles who experienced their own Pentecost at Antioch (Acts 10)? A lot is at stake. As Paul put it in Galatians 5:4, "You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace."

We have no right to force others to keep the law as a condition of salvation if we ourselves have been saved by grace through faith. We must carefully listen to our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters who confess faith in the gospel, testify to the work of the Spirit in their lives, and practice the fruits of repentance. And finally, we must submit their testimony to the witness of Scripture.

In the end, we can only claim the name of "church" if we remain rooted in the grace of the gospel of Christ. And the gospel is that all people-including people who are gay and lesbian-are saved by grace through faith alone, and that the wonderful fruit of grace-for all people, regardless of sexual attraction-is the ongoing life of repentance through the work of the Holy Spirit.

#LGBT #LGBTQI #Acts #Jesus #JesusLovesAll #FruitsOfTheSpirit #MatthewTuininga

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“You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.” - Acts 10:28 As the church wrestles with whether [LGBTQ+ people] ought to be embraced into the full life of the church, it is important to remember that the church has struggled with questions of membership from the very beginning. The primary conflict in the life of the early church had to do with another question: Should Gentiles, who do not keep the mosaic law, be received into the fellowship of the body of Christ? To exclude a gospel-believing person from the church because she is same-sex attracted is to abandon the gospel of salvation by grace through faith, without question. And does the exclusion of such a person, if she refuses to give up the practice of homosexuality, also amount to an insistence on salvation by works of the law? What if she confesses the faith of the gospel, as did the Roman centurion Cornelius, who heard Peter preach in Acts 10? What if her life evidences the fruits of the Spirit, as did the Gentiles who experienced their own Pentecost at Antioch (Acts 10)? A lot is at stake. As Paul put it in Galatians 5:4, "You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace." We have no right to force others to keep the law as a condition of salvation if we ourselves have been saved by grace through faith. We must carefully listen to our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters who confess faith in the gospel, testify to the work of the Spirit in their lives, and practice the fruits of repentance. And finally, we must submit their testimony to the witness of Scripture. In the end, we can only claim the name of "church" if we remain rooted in the grace of the gospel of Christ. And the gospel is that all people-including people who are gay and lesbian-are saved by grace through faith alone, and that the wonderful fruit of grace-for all people, regardless of sexual attraction-is the ongoing life of repentance through the work of the Holy Spirit. #LGBT #LGBTQI #Acts #Jesus #JesusLovesAll #FruitsOfTheSpirit #MatthewTuininga

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🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth – Marsha P. Johnson (1945 – 1992)

Marsha P. Johnson was a trans-rights activist who played a big role in important moments for the LGBTQ+ movement, such as the Stonewall protests. She was an African-American drag artist from New Jersey, whose activism in the 1960s and 70s had a huge impact on the LGBTQ+ community.

At this time, being gay was classified as a mental illness in the United States. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many in society. In June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years old, police raided a gay bar in New York called The Stonewall Inn. The police forced over 200 people out of the bar and onto the streets, and then used excessive violence against them. In 2019, the head of New York's Police Department apologised for their actions, saying, "the actions taken by the NYPD were wrong".
Marsha, who was living and working in New York at the time, was one of the key figures who stood up to the police during the raids.

Marsha resisted arrest, but in the following days, led a series of protests and riots demanding rights for gay people.
Much like the recent Black Lives Matter marches in the United States, news of these protests spread around the world, inspiring others to join protests and rights groups to fight for equality. A month after the protests, the first openly gay march took place in New York - a pivotal moment for the gay and trans community everywhere.

Marsha and good friend Sylvia Rivera, who was also an activist , founded STAR - Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries - an organisation to support gay and trans individuals who had been left homeless. Much of Marsha's life was dedicated to helping others, despite suffering several mental health issues. Marsha was nicknamed the "Saint of Christopher Street" (where the Stonewall Inn is located), because of the generosity they had shown towards people in New York's LGBTQ+ community.

#MarshaPJohnson #LGBTQ #Stonewall #DragQueen #STAR #StreetTransvestiteActionRevolutionaries #Gay #USA #Activist #GayLiberationFront

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🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth – Marsha P. Johnson (1945 – 1992) Marsha P. Johnson was a trans-rights activist who played a big role in important moments for the LGBTQ+ movement, such as the Stonewall protests. She was an African-American drag artist from New Jersey, whose activism in the 1960s and 70s had a huge impact on the LGBTQ+ community. At this time, being gay was classified as a mental illness in the United States. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many in society. In June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years old, police raided a gay bar in New York called The Stonewall Inn. The police forced over 200 people out of the bar and onto the streets, and then used excessive violence against them. In 2019, the head of New York's Police Department apologised for their actions, saying, "the actions taken by the NYPD were wrong". Marsha, who was living and working in New York at the time, was one of the key figures who stood up to the police during the raids. Marsha resisted arrest, but in the following days, led a series of protests and riots demanding rights for gay people. Much like the recent Black Lives Matter marches in the United States, news of these protests spread around the world, inspiring others to join protests and rights groups to fight for equality. A month after the protests, the first openly gay march took place in New York - a pivotal moment for the gay and trans community everywhere. Marsha and good friend Sylvia Rivera, who was also an activist , founded STAR - Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries - an organisation to support gay and trans individuals who had been left homeless. Much of Marsha's life was dedicated to helping others, despite suffering several mental health issues. Marsha was nicknamed the "Saint of Christopher Street" (where the Stonewall Inn is located), because of the generosity they had shown towards people in New York's LGBTQ+ community. #MarshaPJohnson #LGBTQ #Stonewall #DragQueen #STAR #StreetTransvestiteActionRevolutionaries #Gay #USA #Activist #GayLiberationFront

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