Make UK Prides Fossil Free!
UK Pride celebrations
Climate change is disproportionately harming LGBTQIA+ communities and individuals around the world.
Fossil fuel companies are co-opting the struggle for LGBTQIA+ liberation to sanitise their own image. They are doing this by associating with progressive movements such as our Pride celebrations. Meanwhile these companies profit from destroying the environment, damaging people’s health, and driving people from their homes.
LGBTQIA+ Pride events exist for us, to celebrate our community, history and struggle. There is no place in Pride for companies that hurt our friends and our siblings across the globe. This has always been a struggle for justice for ALL of us.
In recognition of the climate emergency we are in, disproportionately harming LGBTQIA+ communities and individuals around the world, we are calling for Pride celebrations to pledge:
- To adopt a publicly available ethical sponsorship policy
- To refuse to accept sponsorship from or partnership with fossil fuel companies
- To refuse to accept sponsorship from or partnerships with financial institutions funding fossil fuel companies
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UK Pride celebrations
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We, the petition signatories, call on you as UK Pride celebrations, to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. We want to be proud of Pride--and that means you need to:
1) adopt a publicly available ethical sponsorship policy,
2) refuse to accept sponsorships from or partnerships from fossil fuel companies, and
3) refuse to accept sponsorship from or partnerships with financial institutions funding fossil fuel companies.
Pride is supposed to serve queer communities, not enable corporations that profit off of the suffering of the most marginalized. Make Pride something we can be proud of again.