Do we still need Pride Month?

With Pride Month beginning tomorrow, how proud are you of your sexuality? As a white cis-gendered male, I am frankly a little embarrassed about mine. I mean, it’s not exactly cool to fancy the opposite sex these days, and many of us hetero-normies have become increasingly wary of appearing ‘inappropriate’ when making a move on someone we like the look of. So don’t expect me to be parading my vanilla-flavoured proclivities through central London any time soon. What would I even wear to signal hetero-pride – baggy cords and a neatly tucked-in shirt?

That said, you might well spot me at some of this year’s shenanigans; after all, the organisers certainly know how to put on a show. Back in my acting days, I even headed a Pride march through Soho with a bunch of other thesps dressed as (wait for it)… Judy Garland. We had been appearing in a play about the Stonewall riots and the Pride organisers thought it might be fun to get us to take part in the festivities dressed as the gay icon.