PARIS IS BURNING
RAINBOW BABIES, IT’S TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR STREETS!
YOU CAN GET MARRIED NOW, but can you walk down the street without being attacked? Maybe you can, if you live in cosmopolitan London. I’ve spotted at least three gay couples brazenly holding hands this past week alone – but try pulling that sort of thing in a quiet, traditional village and you may be opening yourself up for all sorts of trouble. A new report from the University of Leicester suggests that hate crime is an “everyday reality” for many LGBT people. Tell us something we don’t know, right? Maybe you’re lucky enough to live somewhere safe and accepting. Maybe you don’t ‘act’ gay, and ‘get away with it’ that way. If so, good for you. But I suspect that, at some point or other, most of us rainbow babies have experienced abuse on the streets.