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Hastings Pride returns for 2018 with a free-to-attend Festival and Parade through the town. You can check our website for information, downloads, and donation links to contribute to this not-for-profit event that focuses on celebration and support for the local LGBT+ community. This year we're reaching for the stars with the theme of "no discrimination, no alienation" so join us for an amazing day! After the success of last years Hastings Pride, celebrating the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, this years theme of space and aliens may seem a little frivolous. All of us at Hastings Pride can assure you that you could not be further from the truth. Bringing people together is at the heart of Hastings Pride and we achieve this by ensuring an inclusive fun and entertaining day. Hastings Pride is about breaking down social barriers by bringing people together and conveying the important messages which cause the divisions were fighting against. 30 years ago, this year, the LGBT+ flag was first used. It represents the unity of the LGBT+ community. The LGBT+ community represents something which cuts though race and religion and brings us together through the core of our humanity, our sexuality, gender identity and spiritual being. So why an Alien and Space theme you may ask! Originally the word Xenophobia comes from the Greek words xnos, meaning the stranger and the guest and phbos, meaning fear. Thus, xenophobia stands for fear of the stranger, but usually the term is taken to mean hatred of strangers. In this past year we have seen that hate crime has risen significantly. The Stonewall School Report found: Nearly half of LGBT pupils (45 per cent) including 64 per cent of trans pupils are bullied for being LGBT in Britains schools. Seven in 10 LGBT pupils report that their school says that homophobic and biphobic bullying is wrong, up from half in 2012 and a quarter in 2007. However, just two in five LGBT pupils report that their schools say that transphobic bullying is wrong More than four in five trans young people have self-harmed, as have three in five lesbian, gay and bi young people who arent trans More than two in five trans young people have attempted to take their own life, and one in five lesbian, gay and bi students who arent trans have done the same

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