June is a month dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities, drawing the participation of millions of individuals globally. If you would like to understand more about the origins of Pride month, please tune into our podcast here.
During Pride month, people across society come together in love and friendship and pay tribute to everyone who has helped make history – all 1.5M LGBTQ+ people who are living in England and Wales today. And we know this figure because for the first time LGBTQ+ people were officially counted as part of the 2021 Census (double monumental moment as it was also the first digital census ever!) For this community this was a truly historic moment as after years of invisibility, they are now officially part of our country’s story.
Here’s what some of our colleagues had to say:
