Then, from 2009 to 2016, Barack Obama declared June LGBT Pride Month. In May 2019, Donald Trump recognized Pride Month with a tweet announcing that his administration had launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality, although critics have noted that actions speak louder than words. Window.FB.Event.subscribe('xfbml.render', function() (document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')) The New York Pride Parade is one of the largest and most well-known parades to take place, with over 2 million people estimated to have taken part in 2019. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.During Pride Month we have had some amazing support from three tattoo studios across the country: Sanctuary Body Art in Edinburgh, Abz Mills at Spaghetti Tattoos in Kirkcaldy and The Studio in Glasgow. We have asked them why they chose to get involved and support LGBT Youth Scotland and we were blown away by their responses. “When you work in an industry like ours, you see people from all parts of the community who want to express themselves, by getting tattooed or pierced (or both). When you realise that large portions of your client base contain young people who are members of the LGBTQ+ community and they need an inclusive space where they can express themselves and be who THEY are - then you realise what an important part Studios play in their self-expression and self-actualisation.
We have been proud to have had clients from all over the rainbow spectrum who have become more than clients - they have become friends and family and we have been excited to see them grow and become who they were always meant to be. We always wanted to support LGBT Youth Scotland because we have been told what an important place it has been for our friends/families/clients and how the resources they offer have been an invaluable support.
Thank you all for supporting our efforts to raise money and thank you to LGBTYS for the work you do.” They are keeping the flash sheets on offer for the time being and continue to donate the studio cut to LGBT Youth Scotland.Ībz at Spaghetti Tattoos shared her story with us: Ross and his team raised over £350 during Edinburgh Pride with a selection of awesome Pride and LGBT specific tattoos. “I watched the video of Molly and Shauni and resonated with it right away. The way they were describing the pressures they felt while being at school and experiencing anxiety and depression relating to their coming out brought back some memories of my own. I was outed in school and made to feel like an outcast.
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I already felt this way because of my skin colour in a predominantly Caucasian school and town, but to be approached by strangers more frequently only to be thrown vulgar comments, being beaten up and jumped at for being Queer, it all got a bit too much for me.