Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈
"Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start." - Jason Collins
Join us in celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community during this year's Pride Month.
Celebrated every June, the month is an opportunity to pay homage to the LGBTQIA+ community's history, achievements and ongoing struggles for equality.
While the event is undoubtedly a celebration, it is primarily a protest, a stand against the prejudice that the LGBTQIA+ community increasingly faces everywhere in the world. We still have a long way to go to achieve equality for all, but at 9BR Chambers we believe in pushing for progress because we believe that a diverse and inclusive world is fairer for all.
Resources and support:
- East London Out Project (ELOP): a local charity offering a range of support services to LGBTQ+ communities including counselling.
- Tower Hamlets LGBT Community Forum: a project that aims to bring together LGBT+ people (and allies) who live, work, study or socialise in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
- Galop: an LGBTQ+ anti-violence charity, providing support services relating to hate crime, domestic abuse and sexual violence.
- Switchboard: LGBTQIA+ helpline: provides information, support and referral service for LGBTQ+ and their friends, parents or family.
- Gendered Intelligence: a charity aiming to increase understanding of gender diversity, specialising in supporting young trans people under 21.
- Mermaids: supports trans and gender-diverse children, young people and their families.
- GIRES: works to improve the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people of all ages.
- Stop Hate UK: provides independent, confidential and accessible reporting and support for victims, witnesses and third parties.