Celebrate celebrate celebrate
The BBC is excited about London Pride.
Some of London’s buses and trains are being wrapped in rainbow colours as part of this year Pride celebrations. Transport for London (TfL) is launching a campaign celebrating the city’s LGBTQ community ahead of Saturday’s parade.
Those featuring on posters include Gok Wan, Bimini from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Nick Grimshaw and Queen MoJo. “We are proud to continue to support Pride by sharing Pride messages across our network,” Patricia Obinna, TfL’s director of diversity & inclusion said.
That’s nice but…has London Transport ever wrapped some of its trains and buses in feminist colors? Or celebrated the city’s female community in any way?
It seems not. If you do a Google image search for “London Transport Pride” you get a riot of colors. If you do a Google image search for “London Transport feminism” you get a rather drab mishmash.
I guess women just aren’t fun the way the LGBTQ+++++++ community is.
Of the four people named, two are gay men, one is a man pretending to be a woman, and one is a woman. The woman seems to keep her relationships and sexuality private, at least as far as my cursory search found, and so might be a lesbian, or might simply be ‘queer’ i.e. straight but with thoughts of specialness. No visible lesbian.
“I guess women just aren’t fun the way the LGBTQ+++++++ community is.”
And as we have just seen there’s a very fine line between their fun and straight up bullying.