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Can Dartford’s First Pride Heal The Wounds Left By The Shame of Sandy Bruce-Lockhart?
After decades of keeping the LGBT+ community a secret, the town I live in is having it’s first Pride. Organised by the Orchard Theatre in partnership with Dartford Borough Council, the event is much needed, and long overdue. I live about twenty minutes away from the tiny village I spent much of my childhood in,…
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Happy Pride To My Homophobic Father
It was four am.I found the thought of you,dusty and damaged at the back of my mind,brushing it off as I placed it on the bedside table, beside my favourite framed photograph of my mother.At last, the band is back together,and at four am,for the first time in months,I am thinking about you.I am REALLY…
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I’m Not The Kind Of Girl Who Runs (Anymore)
Many days had passed since the sun set on my stage,humbly, I sat, smoking at the stage door, dressed in my best Judy Garland,introspective at last,running for years, but there I was, at the same place I started.It was then that I kissed fate on the cheek and allowed her to flower. Love is not…