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Jun 7 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
We are delighted to welcome @PeterTatchell as a guest editor for our #Pride2022 takeover 🏳️‍🌈⚧️
'We saw our march as giving hope and confidence to the many queers who were too guilty and fearful to join us. We showed them that it was okay to be LGBTQ+.' @PeterTatchell helped organise the UK’s first Pride in 1972.

metro.co.uk/2022/06/07/pet…
'I really hope that these stories will alert you to some under the radar LGBTQ+ issues that are not much known' | @PeterTatchell ✍️
metro.co.uk/2022/06/07/pri…
'I was threatened that I would be tracked down, beaten and subjected to every form of humiliation you can think of' | Josh Layton ✍️
metro.co.uk/2022/06/07/fir…
On July 1, 1972, hundreds of members of the LGBTQ+ community and allies took to the streets of London for the UK’s first-ever Pride march.

@PeterTatchell was one of around 30 GLF members who helped organise the inaugural march #Pride2022
metro.co.uk/2022/06/07/vet…
As you read this, there are still 71 countries or territories across the world that criminalise homosexuality. #Pride2022
metro.co.uk/2022/06/07/whe…
The east of Ukraine must be liberated from the Kremlin war machine or its LGBTQ+ population will be ‘erased’, warns Lenny Emson, the head of Kyiv Pride, an organisation working to help gay and trans people through the war.

metro.co.uk/2022/06/07/lgb…
To mark #Pride2022 , we’ve spoken to some healthcare workers in the LGBTQ+ community about the work they do and their hopes for the future.

This is what some of these LGBTQ+ healthcare heroes had to say… 👇🏳️‍🌈⚧️
metro.co.uk/2022/06/07/lgb…

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Jun 8
A Russian radio station’s lunchtime bulletin was interrupted by the Ukrainian national anthem and anti-war songs.

Kommersant FM was taken over by hackers to protest Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine before being pulled off the air.

Let's Discuss 👇
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After Wednesday's cyber attack, the station released a statement saying:

🗣 'The radio station has been hacked. The internet stream will soon be reinstated.'
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Jun 8
A 15-year-old boy who flies drones as a hobby helped to prevent Russian soldiers from overrunning Kyiv 🇺🇦

Andrii Pokrasa has revealed his role in the defence of the capital after being hailed 'a hero of Ukraine' by the military.

Let's discuss 👇
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Soldiers trying to track the position of a column of troops and tanks heading for the capital did not have access to a drone in the early days of the invasion.

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🗣 'They provided us information where approximately the Russian column could be.'
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Jun 8
It's me, your Scottish Queen @ShadyLawrence

I've chosen these five articles from Metro this year because I think they reflect some important issues for our community right now 🏳️‍🌈

They are all really important topics to think about this #Pride2022

Let's death drop into it👇 Image
Here is my first choice an article by the fabulous @UglaStefania on the Government making a shocking U-turn on its plans to ban conversion therapy in the UK.

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Up next we have this inspiring article about adoption. Garry Ratcliffe and his husband adopted four kids – three have disabilities and they couldn’t be more proud of their family 🏳️‍🌈

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Jun 7
KFC is facing another shortage but this time it's not chicken, it's lettuce 🥬😅

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Fans of the Colonel were told to expect a mixture of lettuce and cabbage in their favourite dishes after floods destroyed lettuce crops.

Australia, like so many countries around the world, is struggling with soaring prices of everyday food items.
Photos of single lettuces on sale for 10 Australian dollars (£5.72) are now commonplace on social media.

That is three times the usual price 💰
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Jun 6
BREAKING: Boris Johnson has won his confidence vote by a margin of 211 to 148. trib.al/1dNqhjf
The prime minister's victory secures his place in Downing Street for now - but by no means ends the political jeopardy his government has been plunged into.
Mr Johnson will be keenly aware that Theresa May survived a confidence vote too by winning the backing of 60% of her MPs – but was forced to resign just six months later. Image
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Jun 6
These are the Tory MPs that are set to back Boris Johnson in the no-confidence vote.

Less than 150 have publicly said they would back him

Let's look at who 👇
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🔵 Sheryll Murray
🔵 Rachel Maclean
🔵 Simon Baynes
🔵 James Cleverly
🔵 Brendan Clarke-Smith
🔵 Andrew Stephenson
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🔵 Stuart Anderson
🔵 Liz Truss
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🔵 Jacob Young
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🔵 Mark Jenkinson
🔵 Brandon Lewis
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