🧵 Some advice to companies (and individuals) as we enter “LGBT+” History Month #LGBTplusHM (repurposed from an article I wrote for Pride Month last year):

1) Don't just slap a rainbow on your logo and think that's enough. That's just empty virtue signalling. 2) Stop using the "progress flag" with the extra colours pointing in from one side, pushing the LGB rainbow flag colours out. The standard flag with six colours covers all you need for for gay rights.

Yesterday, there was a protest opposite Downing Street calling for the conversion therapy ban to include "trans conversion therapy". I was stood a little way away from the actual group of protestors, up towards Trafalgar Square, and was holding the sign in the photo. 1/20 I didn't try to infiltrate the protest crowd, nor did I shout or chant anything or try and start conversations with any of them, but I did respond if people spoke to me. I had a couple of short, civil interactions with people about my views on the conversion therapy issue. 2/20