REGIONAL: Barbados hosts third LGBTQ parade to celebrate Pride Month
Pride Barbados marked the celebrations for International Pride Month over the weekend with the staging of its third pride parade in the capital city, Bridgetown.
A committee of local organisers, commemorated another pride month staged this year’s parade, the first to happen since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ro-Ann Mohammed of the Pride Barbados committee said, “It is a particularly momentous event that celebrates the visibility and belonging of LGBTQ+ people in Barbados, advocating for inclusion, respect of gender and sexually diverse people, in recognition of the community as belonging and as fundamental contributors to Barbadian society and culture.”
She added that the parade is an event where all Barbadians are welcome to celebrate the incredible human rights victories which have been achieved through the activism of theLGBTQ movement, like the repeal of Barbados’ colonial-era serious indecency and buggery laws.
“We celebrate our progress and hold gratitude to the community members and allies throughout Barbados that continue to make it possible. As we move towards a more inclusive Barbados, let us commit to honouring and celebrating the beauty in the diversity of the people that share this space which we call home,” said Mohammed.
Source: Barbados Today
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