Thread by @MetroOpinion

'Of all the privileges you get as a so-called celebrity, the most significant is a platform.'

@RobbieRinder is guest editing @MetroOpinion for the day as part of our #Pride2022 coverage

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'As I thought about the gift that I had been given, I realised it was the joy and delight of the community that mattered to me and that I wanted to highlight most.'

'I’m no Pollyanna, and this isn’t a takeover that is designed to make people jazz hand and play The Glad Game, but it’s important to be glad and proud of the advances we’ve made.'

'To know that through all of the struggle, all of the challenges, and all of the pain, ultimately, there are enormous, innumerable reasons to be optimistic.'

'Every one of the stories that I have the gift of sharing with readers has within it something positive and happy to say. I’ve gone more is more in my curatorship – or as my godchildren would say, I’ve gone "so extra".'

'And there is an essential reason for that: It is to make a point.'

'We have to tell the world we’re here, as painful as it is and as much as we shouldn’t have to.'

'But above all else, we have to demonstrate – through our stories, our lives, our experiences – that the LGBT community not only lives, but thrives.'

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