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Soothed only by a mass of humanity given the sacred space to pour out their heartbreak, anger and love together in action. I found myself with my closest friends, temporarily soothed in our grief for our brothers and sisters in Orlando. When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all, I think of the stillness, silence, streaming tears, hands squeezing hands, arms wrapped around bodies in postures of care and true love that happened on Old Compton Street on Monday night, followed by the London Gay Men’s Choir singing: Trying to make us forget the fact that we all desperately need each other and that we are all desperately needed. It’s an act of viscerally unifying as a people, in a world and culture that is constantly, insidiously (and sometimes horrifically overtly) trying to separate us and make us irrationally petrified of each other.
#ANDREW GARFIELD GAY PRIDE FULL#
To stand, talk, protest, march, sing, dance and be generally fabulous and fierce as fuck in the face of forces designed to make us full of terror. It’s also an opportunity to transform our feelings and longing into generative human action.
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See me as I am and love me as I am: your brother, your sister.” This community is a vital blessing to our diverse world. A community of lovers who are outrageously forced to continually say: “See me. A celebration of a community who have had to fight and are still fighting for their basic human rights. ‘In the wake of Orlando this is a matter of life and death, and Pride is a celebration of the miracle of life. Most contributors sent a couple of sentences, but Garfield took the time to write this moving essay about the power of the event. The next day we decided to contact him, along with a number of other well-known LGBT+ and ally Londoners, to ask them why they think this year’s Pride celebrations are more important than ever. While we were there we spotted ‘Spider-Man’ actor Andrew Garfield in the crowd. Time Out headed to the Soho vigil for Orlando on Monday June 13.