Cambridge City Council
15 June 2022
During June each year, people in Cambridge and beyond come together to mark Pride, celebrating how far LGBTQ+ rights have come.
Pride originated in the United States, in 1969, when the Stonewall riots took place in June of that year (the Stonewall riots being protests that changed gay rights for a lot of people in America and around the world).
As well as being a month to celebrate progress in LGBTQ+ rights, Pride is also an opportunity to promote the need for further education and awareness of issues that still affect people within the LGBTQ+ community, including discrimination and homophobia.
As part of its commitment to strengthening equality and diversity in Cambridge, Cambridge City Council regularly funds and partners with the organisations listed above, including providing the venue and a £5,000 grant to support the upcoming Cambridge Pride event.
The council has signed up to Encompass Network’s Safer Spaces campaign to help LGBTQ+ people feel safe, welcome and included when using council services. This involved providing training on challenging discrimination and reporting hate crimes experienced by LGBTQ+ people to frontline services including Customer Services, Housing Advisers, and for staff working in community centres. The council also supported The Kite Trust to run sessions for local businesses to find out more about the Safer Spaces scheme, and to encourage people to sign up to the council’s Equality Pledge.
The council also runs training sessions for staff and councillors throughout the year, including on transgender awareness, and tackling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender discrimination.
With South Cambridgeshire District Council, the council supported Encompass Network to undertake a community needs assessment of LGBTQ+ people in Cambridgeshire, including needs related to wellbeing and community engagement. Encompass Network completed the needs assessment and shared initial findings with both councils in February 2022.
Cllr Mairéad Healy, Executive Councillor for Equalities, Anti-Poverty and Wellbeing, said: “The council is committed to challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work. We are working year-round to support LGBTQ+ residents and colleagues and are eager to join the community in celebrating progress during Pride, and to reassert our ongoing support. I’m looking forward to celebrations taking place throughout the month and especially Cambridge Pride on 9 July.”
The council’s support for the LGBTQ+ community is part of its wider commitment to strengthening equality and diversity in Cambridge. You can find out more about our ongoing Equality and Diversity work on our webpage, including:
Look out for updates on upcoming projects on the council’s website, or by following the council on Facebook and Twitter.
The executive councillor leading on this matter is Cllr Mairéad Healy, (Labour) Executive Councillor for Equalities, Anti-Poverty and Wellbeing. Spokespersons from the other political groups on this issue are Cllr Cheney Payne (Liberal Democrat) and Cllr Hannah Copley (Green/Independent Group).
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