{"id":8916,"date":"2021-09-03T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:18:11","slug":"pride-alliance-sep-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2021\/09\/03\/pride-alliance-sep-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Alliance: Sep 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month the Pride Alliance invites you to celebrate the purple stripe of the Pride Flag.\u00a0 This colour represents spirit.\u00a0 Faith is an important part of many LGBT+ people\u2019s lives.\u00a0 However, the misconception that LGBT+ people cannot belong within faith communities has been deeply damaging.<\/p>\n<p>Research by the LGBT+ charity Stonewall found a third of lesbian, gay and bi people of faith (32%) aren\u2019t open with anyone in their faith community about their sexual orientation.\u00a0 One in four trans people of faith (25%) aren\u2019t open about who they are in their faith community.<\/p>\n<p>Faith has this almost unparalleled ability to bring people from all walks of life together in the name of love. LGBT+ people of faith should feel respected and included in their faith communities, just as they need respect and acceptance in wider society.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of faith groups for LGBT+ people.\u00a0 We have included their details below if you feel you need to reach out to them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diverse Church \u2013 Christian https:\/\/diversechurch.website\/<\/li>\n<li>Hidayah \u2013 Islam https:\/\/hidayahlgbt.com\/<\/li>\n<li>House of Rainbow &#8211; BAME https:\/\/www.houseofrainbow.org\/<\/li>\n<li>Imaan \u2013 Islam https:\/\/imaanlondon.wordpress.com\/<\/li>\n<li>KeshetUK \u2013 Jewish https:\/\/www.keshetuk.org\/<\/li>\n<li>Open Table Network \u2013 Christian https:\/\/opentable.lgbt\/<\/li>\n<li>Quest \u2013 Catholics https:\/\/questlgbti.uk\/<\/li>\n<li>Rainbow Pagans UK \u2013 Pagan https:\/\/rainbowpagansuk.wordpress.com\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8917\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2021\/09\/03\/pride-alliance-sep-2021\/pride-sep-2021\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2021\/09\/03101754\/Pride-Sep-2021.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pride Sep 2021\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2021\/09\/03101754\/Pride-Sep-2021-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2021\/09\/03101754\/Pride-Sep-2021.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8917\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2021\/09\/03101754\/Pride-Sep-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2021\/09\/03101754\/Pride-Sep-2021.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2021\/09\/03101754\/Pride-Sep-2021-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month the Pride Alliance invites you to celebrate the purple stripe of the Pride Flag.\u00a0 This colour represents spirit.\u00a0 Faith is an important part of many LGBT+ people\u2019s lives.\u00a0 However, the misconception that LGBT+ people cannot belong within faith communities has been deeply damaging. Research by the LGBT+ charity Stonewall found a third of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2021\/09\/03\/pride-alliance-sep-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pride Alliance: Sep 2021<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13766,"featured_media":8917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-8916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2021\/09\/03101754\/Pride-Sep-2021.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8918,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions\/8918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}