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Damian Barr , Ella Braidwood and Yas Necati

‘We were marching with ghosts’: three writers on the Pride they’ll never forget

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‘Scotland was changed for ever’ … Pride Glasgow, 25 June 2022.
‘Scotland was changed for ever’ … Pride Glasgow, 25 June 2022. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Damian Barr: ‘There were thousands of us and it rained. But we felt like millions. We felt like sunshine’

I lost my Pride virginity the same day Scotland did: Saturday 17 June 1995. The sun shone proudly as we marched loudly through Edinburgh, a city that generally limits shows of emotion to a vigorous twitch of a net curtain. I was 18, weeks from 19, and didn’t know where to look first.

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