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I’ve never felt comfortable with the idea of Pride, let alone parades or marches. When cishet folk-be they allies, supporters, or tourists-turn up and treat the space like a party, this can be at the detriment of the safety and community of LGBTQ+ people Pride spaces are notoriously poorly catered towards the large proportion of our community who are sober. Whilst this frivolity may appear good-natured, harmless, and part of the celebration, it also has the effect of making Pride unsafe for certain participants or would-be attendees. Modern-day Pride parades are most often simply big gay parties, rife with drinking and raucous merry-making. It’s unsurprising, then, that there is history-if not the most civil one-between beer and LGBTQ+ movements.
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Despite issues prevalent within the craft beer sector and the beer industry at large-those of a lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion, a lack of LGBTQ+ representation and visibility, and of a lack of safeguarding against homophobia, queerphobia, and transphobia-beer is, as one might imagine, as popular within queer spaces as it is anywhere else. As long as there has been beer, I should say, there have been queers involved.īut of course beer is a far-reaching and egalitarian drink. Perhaps not so overtly in the way that I or other out and vocal queers are, but like women, people of colour, and others broadly excluded from beer’s more recent history, we are an integral part of the genetic makeup of what beer is today. Inevitably, queer folk have been involved in the production of beer since time immemorial.
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Hell, we’ve been around longer: early evidence suggests beer-in one shape or another- has been around for a few thousand years (depending upon who you ask), but I’d hang my hat on us gays predating that ancient Sumerian beer recipe by a long, long way. As long as there has been beer, there have been queers.