@ianport.bsky.social
Writer, producer & history nut. Chair, Proud Watford: a place without prejudice. representation • responsibility • reconciliation www.proudwatford.com Views my own but reposts might be fyi only. 🇬🇧🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇬🇱✴️🌍🌎🌏 he/him
We keep winning
And then we keep losing again
We will continue to fight for the rights, representation and acceptance of LGBTQIA+ people, at home and across the globe.
Always hoping for the day when we no longer have to.
Our friends at the Alzheimer’s Society working together with Dementia Friendly Watford, have put together an innovative free event hosted by Watford FC, that will explore the needs of members of the LGBTQ+ community and their carers who live with dementia.
www.proudwatford.com/event-detail...
In the words of our Proud Watford patron and veteran Bryan Timberlake – now 92:
“...freedom and peace, won on the backs of the brave men and women we remember today is very precious. Hard won. Never given.
In the years to come, please remember, it's our job to defend what's right.
Human & Proud.“
Media obsession with trans issues would have many people think that gender fluidity, questioning and transition is a new thing.
Today we celebrate those who fight for equal rights & representation, and will continue to do so for Watford and our neighbours.
#transpride
#transrightsarehumanrights🏳️⚧️
So proud of our bright, shiny and new signposting page!
@watfordfc.bsky.social @watfordmayor.bsky.social @cathbal66.bsky.social
An idea for a self-portrait:
There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
William Shakespeare: Henry IV (Pt 1), Act I, Scene II
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit”
President Joe Biden
@herts-pride.bsky.social
Here's our own Ian talking us through his piece of art.
If you haven't already, you can still enter your art here: www.proudwatford.com/artworks
Enter by Saturday 18th.
Exhibition: 25th January - St Mary's Church 11.30am-4.30pm.
Everyone welcome. Absolutely everyone.
#watford
#lgbtqiaplus🏳️🌈
#art
Me desperately trying to finish my painting for @proudwatford.bsky.social's exhibition 'a place without prejudice: artworks' exhibition Saturday 25th January at St Mary’s central #Watford
www.proudwatford.com/artworks
Work in progress on 'a reflection on reconciliation' for @proudwatford.bsky.social exhibition 'a place without prejudice: artworks'.
Saturday 25th January
St Mary’s Church
#Watford
www.proudwatford.com/artworks
My old school playing field 48 years after I left.
Now sadly unused with a 'KEEP OUT' sign for no apparent reason.
Highly recommended read - how a gay Muslim man found himself, then the charity Hidayah, the Glasgow Frontrunners, inclusive badminton, and love. Such a heartwarming tale on Pride of the Terraces. Thank you Ahmed and @ahenderson96.bsky.social for sharing 🙏
#LGBTQ #sports
Frost tree
Sometimes
England
Shines
Balcony
Ascending
When #BBC Sounds muddles history
Winter dog walking
Then it rained
We are calling for everyone - artist or not, amateur, professional or budding, to create a piece of art.
What does "A Place without prejudice" mean, and look like, to you?
Deadline 18th January - fill in the form and bring your masterpiece along on the 25th January.
www.proudwatford.com/artworks
New Year's Eve Tree
