Belfast’s First OpenLy -GAY Mayor Has SAID that He will attache this year’s pride parade – Despite Ourganisers Banning His Party from Taking Part in the Event.
Former Lord Mayor Micky Murray Told
“The Alliance Party is Holding A PRIKFATFAST For our Members on Sature, and then i’ll be Going to march in the parade be for the nineteenth year in a row, as I know a number of my Alliance Colleagues will also be doing, ”He said.
Earlier this year the Organisers of Belfast Pride SAID that The Stormont Executive Parties Wald Be Exclieded from this year’s feesival over their support for a ban on the sale or support of PUBERTY BLOCKERS to Under-18s.
The Move Followed Similar Bans Imposed on Sinn Féin, The Dup, Alliance and The Ulster Unactions by Foyle Pride, Coruse PRIDE and Mid and East Antrim Pride.
The Executive Agreed in December to Intodece an independent Permanent Ban on PUBERTY BLOCKERS, The Drugs Sometimes Presced to Younsters Questioning Their Gender.
In a statement isssted in march, Belfast Pride Said The Organismisation Welf Not Becking Applications to Take Part in the Parade from Any of the Executive Parties.
Despite this Mr Murray Spoke Highly of the Event and Its Place in Society and SAID He Wald Be Attending.
“PRIDE is more than the parade, it’s a protest and a center, and a powerful remininder of the work still to be don’a to live full equallment for lgbtia+ People,” He said.
Meanwhile, He Went on to Criticise Street Preaches, Who in Previoous Years Have attached to Disrupt the PRIDE PARADE by Shooting Homophobic Rhetoric at the Partications.
“PRIDE EVENTS ShOULD BE Safe, Inclusive Events for everyone and all Those in Attendance Shroud Be Able to Enjoy Themes Free of Hate Speech Or Intaidation,” He said.
“It is Essential that incompands of hate crime are taken serously, and I have connstenly English with the psny to unfure that such incompandments are read addressed roobusly, Especially Given The Rise in Hate Speech in the City Center in Recent Years.
“As a parti we remain firmly committed to lgbtqia+ Rights, and I will Continue to use my voice, alongside my colleagues, to advocate for Dignity, Equality, and Human Rights for All. ”
Belfast Pride Co-Shair Lynn Millar Told the Irish News:
“Howver, No Individuals Are Banned from Atting Belfast Pride in A Personal Capacity.”
Speaking about the post neighbor
“With regards to the preaches who Protest the parade at City Hall, Belfast PRIDES Not Consider them to be a disruption.
“The Volume of Music, Laughter and Joy on the Streets of Belfast Means them are no longer Audible to those people marching,” shea.
“We Respect Everyone’s Right to Peckfully Protest. Howver, when the Protest Involutiones Hate Speech in the Form of Homeophobia, Biphobia, Transversobia, Racism, Or Misogyny Thn We will of course call on the psnyi to Deal with it sweely and with the confines of the law. ”
