The Urdd has branded a backlash to its support for the LGBTQ+ community at its national Eisteddfod this year as "offensive, extreme and extremely disappointing". The annual Welsh-language youth festival - which is taking place in Llandovery in Carmathenshire from May 29 until June 2 - has launched a new LGBTQ+ area called Cwiar (which translates to Queer) na Nog.
Workshops and events have been held in the area - which is marked by a colourful tent - and pronoun badges are also on sale there. Visitors have been encouraged to wear pronoun badges and Urdd staff have been wearing them throughout the week, reports the BBC.
The mascot for the Urdd, Mistar Urdd, has also been wearing a pronoun badge, reading "Fe/Fo" ("He/Him"). Aled Rosser, one of the leaders of the Cwiar na Nog project, told the BBC there had been a positive reaction to Mistar Urdd wearing his pronoun badge, and said the ideas had come from "young queer Welsh people".
