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👇
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.
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 🏳️🌈
Heartstopper is one of the biggest TV moments of the year and totally deserves all the praise it has been receiving.
This piece by @Jefflez discusses the queer joy the show brings to the world 🏳️🌈 🌍 trib.al/Zvo3PcR
And of course, I had to include a feature from my sister @crystalwillseeu on a topic I obviously wholeheartedly agree with! 👇 trib.al/8yFI9zP
That's all from me for now, but my sisters @TiaKofi and @THEVIVIENNEUK and I will be Tartan Around all day so make sure you are following Metro's #Pride2022 takeover.
Happy Pride 🏳️🌈
Surprise it's me @ShadyLawrence back back back again 🏳️🌈 🏴
I have one more article I would like to share from the incredible @UglaStefania about how in the run-up to #Pride2022, companies need to learn how to really be allies 👇 trib.al/eYXG9Pm
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A new study published today has revealed that microplastics — plastic pieces much smaller than a grain of rice — have made their way into the relatively untouched continent of Antarctica.
PhD student Alex Aves from the University of Canterbury found the microplastics in snow samples collected from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in late 2019.
People in Thailand are now free to grow and own marijuana plants at home after its government officially removed cannabis from its list of banned drugs.
It is the first Asian country to legalise weed in a region known for its strict anti-drug laws👇☘ metro.co.uk/2022/06/09/tha…
Health minister Anutin Charnvirakul celebrated the news by announcing his plan to send more than a million cannabis seeds across the country, as he seeks to rebrand Thailand as a ‘weed wonderland’.
Under the new rules citizens are allowed to grow, eat and sell marijuana on a medicinal basis – although smoking it recreationally is still technically illegal.
Mum Jamie Greene, from Toms River in New Jersey, US, flew her son Elijah Kapatos, her two younger children Brandon, 7, and Brice, 12, and her boyfriend Carlos Pacheco to Aruba for a holiday.
The family-of-five arrived without incident and enjoyed their trip.
But Elijah had a meltdown after they arrived at Oranjestad Airport in Aruba, for their return flight to Newark, on May 17.
Whether you’ve just come to a new realisation about yourself or you’re with a member of the opposite sex and the topic has yet to come up, coming out to your partner can be nerve-wracking.
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.
Pokrasa's' father contacted local defenders to tell them his son was skilled at flying one and might be able to help.
Not long after, the schoolboy, more used to skateboarding than military reconnaissance, helped direct strikes against the convoy.
The teenager told Global News:
🗣 'They provided us information where approximately the Russian column could be.'