{"id":30876,"date":"2023-06-05T18:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30876"},"modified":"2023-06-05T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:23:39","slug":"pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30876","title":{"rendered":"Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023060502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPride Month (June) celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and recognizes their culture, and long history of fighting for equality. At our recent Ock Poets meeting at Abingdon Library, we read some poems by <a href=\"https:\/\/poems.poetrysociety.org.uk\/poets\/mary-jean-chan\/\">Mary Jean Chan<\/a>. Chan was born in Hong Kong and teaches at Brookes University in Oxford, and co-edited the Penguin Book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/445204\/100-queer-poems-by-chan-edited-by-andrew-mcmillan-and-mary-jean\/9781529115321\">100 Queer Poems<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In Oxford at the weekend there was a Pride festival, and in previous years there has been an event in Abingdon. Perhaps there will be one. In any case, colourful flags flutter in solidarity on the County Hall roof in Abingdon,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023060504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nand above Abingdon School.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023060503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCharity shop windows also have colourful displays during Pride Month.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023060501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt Sue Ryder, some staff wear a rainbow badge. The badge means <em>&#8216;I&#8217;m someone you can talk to about LGBTQ+ identities.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pride Month (June) celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and recognizes their culture, and long history of fighting for equality. At our recent Ock Poets meeting at Abingdon Library, we read some poems by Mary Jean Chan. Chan was born in Hong Kong and teaches at Brookes University in Oxford, and co-edited the Penguin Book 100 Queer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}