{"id":33835,"date":"2025-06-08T23:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33835"},"modified":"2025-06-08T23:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:10:51","slug":"pride-month-in-abingdon-june-1st-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33835","title":{"rendered":"Pride Month in Abingdon: June 1st\u201330th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060801.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThroughout June, Abingdon councils and businesses are showing support for Pride Month, a time dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities and culture and promoting inclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>The Helen &amp; Douglas House shop has a window display with colourful dresses on mannequins arranged in rainbow order, with a rainbow stripe along the bottom.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060803.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Pride flag flies from the Abingdon County Hall, reflecting the Town Council\u2019s ongoing commitment to supporting LGBTQ+ residents. A Pride picnic is planned later in the month.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025060802.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMostly Books is joining in with a rainbow flag in the window and a display of books \u2014 exploring LGBTQ+ lives and themes.<\/p>\n<p>These local displays are part of a wider movement. Pride Month is observed in June to mark the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, a series of gay liberation protests in the US. It has since grown from the US into a global movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout June, Abingdon councils and businesses are showing support for Pride Month, a time dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities and culture and promoting inclusivity. The Helen &amp; Douglas House shop has a window display with colourful dresses on mannequins arranged in rainbow order, with a rainbow stripe along the bottom. The Pride flag flies from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835","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=33835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}