Today is Idaho
Day: International Day Against Homophobia, an occasion given the
imprimatur of the United Nations. I'm at Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media
Centre with a display for the Regional Equality and Diversity
Partnership (REDP) in a "marketplace" style
exhibition to mark the occasion.
There can never be enough opportunities or occasions to highlight an issue like this. Most of the people on the stalls are weil-kent faces, but a few are new to me - and I always think that's a good thing in itself.
Other organisations taking part today here:
- Blaby District Community Safety
Partnership
- Citizens' Eye Community News Agency
- Leicestershire Police's Stamp It Out! campaign
- Leicestershire Together Stop and Tell campaign
- Trade Sexual Health
- Victim Support
It's a small scale, low key affair and
is all over in three hours. But it brings this important day to the attention
of regular and occasional users of Phoenix Square's cafe bar and it contributes
to the considerable cumulative online coverage of Idaho Day. John Coster
of Citizens' Eye filmed an interview with me about REDP's participation in Idaho
Day. You can see this on YouTube. John also
submitted this video interview to CNN iReport.
There can never be enough opportunities or occasions to highlight an issue like this. Most of the people on the stalls are weil-kent faces, but a few are new to me - and I always think that's a good thing in itself.
More than once today I heard voices
lamenting the small turnout, both in terms of organisations displaying and of
visitors. And more than once I heard John Coster respond with an apposite
Chinese proverb: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next
best time is now." I might be well advised to apply that to a few other things going on
in my life these days!
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