BCHS Pride Group promote equality for LGBTQ+ Pride Month
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KIDS at Buckie Community High School's Pride Group have been doing their bit to promote LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
Students from the group, which is open to all students from S1 to S6, have been visiting businesses in the town in order to elicit their support for the event.
Members from the group have been well-received, says business studies teacher Alice Leitch who, along with fellow teachers Laura George and Rebecca Cowie, run the organisation.
She continued: "Last year to celebrate Pride Month Buckie High and Buckie Thistle worked together, with the club flying the Pride flag for the whole month.
"This year the group have gone one step further and have been going round businesses in Buckie and asking them to display a poster in their front window featuring the Pride flag to show their support.
"Everyone they asked has accepted a poster and the response has been really positive. It's been fantastic and the pupils are really delighted."
The Pride Group have been running at the school for around a year and was created due to popular demand.
Miss Leitch continued: "Pupils have been asking their guidance teachers for a Pride Group for a number of years now.
"Covid slowed things down a bit but since we've been up and running the group has been a roaring success, the room is never empty when we hold out weekly meetings. It's very much up to the pupils themselves what they do.
"For example, in February we looked at Pride History Month and looked at things like fictional LGBTQ+ characters in literature.
"It's also a safe place for them to chat and is very much appreciated. The group's open to everyone and there're a lot of allies and friends who drop by and take part."
The group meets during a Wednesday lunchtime.
LGBT Pride Month is a month, typically June, dedicated to celebration and commemoration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride. Pride Month began after the Stonewall riots, a series of gay liberation protests in 1969, and has since spread outside of the United States.
