Shrewsbury streets get a splash of colour to mark Pride Month
Shrewsbury is celebrating Pride Month and looking forward to its first Pride Festival later this year with the installation of 40 rainbow floor stickers around the town centre.
The stickers, depicting the Pride rainbow flag, are designed as a symbol to show the town is welcoming and inclusive to everyone, whatever their gender or sexual orientation.
Emma Molyneux, project coordinator at Shrewsbury BID which arranged for the stickers to be installed, said: “We are very pleased for the town centre to mark Pride Month with this visual display of support and unity.
“The Original Shrewsbury grants scheme has also provided support for the town’s first Pride Festival taking place in September, which is sure to bring an array of colour and positivity to the town centre.”
Phil Davies, one of the organisers of the Shrewsbury Pride Festival, said: “Pride Month is a wonderful, and important way for the local community to celebrate inclusion, diversity and acceptance and the LGBTQ+ community always delights in this.
“However, Pride isn’t just for June – we’re queer all year and September’s Pride Festival will give Shrewsbury the chance to celebrate love in all its vibrant rainbow of colours with a variety of events around the town.”
A number of regular events are held in Shrewsbury, including the twice monthly LGBTQ+ social which meets at Frankville in Frankwell on the first and third Tuesday of every month, and on the second Tuesday of every month an LGBTQ+ creative writing group meets at the In Good Hands music cafe on Frankwell roundabout.
There is also the Wave Project exhibition at Shrewsbury Museum which has been put together by SAND (Safe Ageing No Discrimination) aimed at increasing the visibility and profile of older LGBTQ+ people.
For more information search for the Shrewsbury LGBTQ+ Facebook group, which shares upcoming events in and around Shrewsbury.
