Pride is still as important today as it was way back in the 1970’s when the Stonewall Riots changed the way we were going to be treated within the world. Awful things are happening everywhere – so here is tiny round up of some of things happening around the globe.

• Bigots are on the rise across the world with more and more stories coming out everyday such as, the Cork library being put under pressure to remove all LGBTQ+ books, a pastor in the US smashing a Barbie dream house with a bible taped to a baseball bat
• Britain’s Equality watchdog, says its acceptable to misgender or deadname students, and schools are not required to follow the students wishes and that sex is binary, and they would not be found to be discriminatory.
• Suella Braverman says that refugees fearing persecution is “insufficient” for UK asylum, meaning LGBTQ+ people around the world will no longer have safe refuge in the UK.

Its not all doom and gloom in the queer world as there are still some good news stories happening as well – here are just a few we think should be celebrated.

• Elle Hungary puts gay dads on the cover in defiance to the Governments Anti-LGBTQ+ Agenda.
• Married at First Sight on Channel 4 welcomes their first Trans contestant to the 2023 line-up.
• California passes a law to ensure that no LGBTQ+ books are banned in schools.
• LGBTQ+ representation in film reaches an 11-year high – GLAAD reports.
• Paw Patrol spin off introduces a Non-Binary Character!!
• After a PREP rollout scheme in Amsterdam, HIV cases drop to almost zero, which could see this scheme expanding across the world.

October

01^st to 31^st         Black History Month

01^st                   Greener Abergavenny Fair in Market Hall

02^nd                  Bookish Crickhowell: Writing Group

04^th                  T*Rextasy @ The Borough Theatre

06^th                   Buddy Holly & The Cricketers @ The Borough Theatre

07^th                   Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri – The Long Ride Home Tour @ The Borough Theatre

07^th                  Drag Bingo – The Halfway, Tal-Y-Coed

08^th                  Lesbian Awareness Day

10^th                  Bookish Crickhowell: An evening with Matt Johnson & John Murray

11^th                   National Coming Out Day

12^th                  Bookish Abergavenny: Book Launch! Strange Tales by Daniel Morden

12^th                  Budapest Café Orchestra @ The Borough Theatre

13^th                  Think Floyd @ The Borough Theatre

17^th                  International Spirit Day

18^th                  International Pronoun Day

19^th                  Berlioz – Beatrice & Benedict @ The Borough Theatre

21^st                   The Brothers of Blues @ The Borough Theatre

21^st                   Parent Party @ St Mary’s Priory

23^rd-29^th            Asexual Awareness Week

24^th                   Classical Villiers Quartet @ The Borough Theatre

26^th                  Intersex Awareness Day

27^th                  Bookish Abergavenny: An evening with Elly Griffiths

27^th                   Wanted @ The Borough Theatre

28^th                  Breabach @ The Borough Theatre

28^th                   Practice your Welsh speaking @ The Melville

November

01^st                   Peter Wakelin on David Jones – Conversations @ The Chapel

03^rd                  Women in Rock @ The Borough Theatre

06^th                  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes @ The Borough Theatre

08^th                   Storytelling Love @ The Melville

08^th                  Intersex Day of Remembrance

10^th                  Y Fenyw Mewn Du @ The Borough Theatre

10^th                  Llanfoist Village Hall Film Night – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

11^th                   Gwent Bach Choir @ The Priory Centre

13^th-19^th            Trans Awareness Week

18^th                   Kizza – Fuggy Yak Jiggy Yak @ The Melville

19^th                  Seska @ The Melville

20^th                  Transgender Day of Remembrance

23^rd-25^th            Great Expectations @ The Borough Theatre

23^rd                  Folk Tales – Filkins Drift @ The Melville

28^th                   Practice your Welsh speaking @ The Melville

29^th                  Steeleye Span @ The Borough

30^th                  Hose County @ The Borough