Pride: when is a rainbow not enough?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It feels like Pride is more visible than ever before, with rainbows everywhere and even LGBT sandwiches on the shelves. But while it’s a measure of progress that communities are able to publicly celebrate their identity, is a party enough? Certainly not for gay women in one area of Chile, where three butch lesbians, known locally as “camionas”, have been murdered in the past decade. Megha Mohan, the BBC’s Gender and Identity Correspondent, shares the story of one of them - Nicole Saavedra. And Tabitha Benjamin, a British musician who runs the “Butch, Please” club night, tells us how she is targeted because of the way she looks. Producer: Harriet Noble Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:09.7	I'm Matthew Price.
0:11.3	Every day we ask one big question about one big story. Today when it is a rainbow not enough?
0:26.0	It feels like pride is more visible than ever before this year.
0:36.3	There are rainbows everywhere. You can buy an LGBT sandwich of all things, which of course
0:41.2	is great. But Pride is more than just corporations putting some
0:48.0	rainbow colours on their logos. And it means different things to different letters. On Beyond Today, today we're going to
0:56.6	focus on the L of LGBT, gay women and in particular lesbians who identify as Butch.
1:04.6	And we're going to start with a desperately sad story, one that says something about where perhaps
1:08.8	pride on its own is not enough. And Mega Mohan, the BBC's gender and identity correspondent brought it to us.
1:17.0	Nicole Sevedra was a girl who was living in Chile. She's living in a small town called El Melon.
1:25.0	It's very rural.
1:26.0	She lived in a tiny house with her mother,
1:29.0	who's a single parent.
1:30.0	On the evening of June 18th, Nicole went to a house party.
1:36.0	She's really popular in the area.
1:38.0	She had a lot of friends.
1:40.0	And like a lot of young millennials, she was 23 at the time, she was actively posting on
1:47.2	Instagram at this house party. And the very last video that she posts is of her and her friends sitting on, you know, mattresses on the floor of this house party.
2:00.0	Have any suffic, and I'll be with you. all this
2:05.0	off-day time. This guy is singing this off-key version of Lana Del Ray
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