Welcome to Pride. You have reached a stop on our Acast Audio Pride Parade, where we travel

around the world to hear from our LGBTQ plus creators on what Pride means to them. So

grab your whistle, get your face paint on, and settle into a special celebration of Pride.

And at the end of this podcast, we'll hear where our audio pride parade is heading next.

So stay tuned.

Oh, can you hear that? The rain has come pouring down. What is it with British summer?

Honestly, it was sunny, literally two seconds ago. I'm sitting here in shorts. Now I'm looking

at my window to rent your rain. Maybe there'll be a rainbow. Do you see what I did there?

Because this is a little bite-sized Pride episode, few listeners. It's our audio pride parade.

So we're going to be handing the veritable big gay pattern between podcasts to answer some

questions about what we think of Pride and talking about our own sort of opinions of Pride.

Can you hear that? That is rain clattering down. And each little mini podcast is sort of highlighting

a different element of Pride. So I've got some questions here, which I'm going to ask myself,

like a good little interviewer, and they're going to answer them. It's going to be great,

and you're going to like it. You don't have to like it. If you don't like it, you'll get in touch.

We know that listeners. And if you do like it, well, we aim to please. Mi casa es du casa.

I don't think that's quite the right use of that phrase, but there we go. Now first question

I've got here. What was it like growing up LGBTQ in your city, town, or area? Well, I grew up in

Southfields, which is next to Wimbledon in London, in Britain, in Europe. Well, used to be Europe,

sniff. What was it like? So my family were very accepting of queer people. Wouldn't have said

queer people then, but my dad was a fashion photographer. My mum was a fashion stylist.

There was no sense of any kind of homophobia within my family, but I don't think that was the

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