Cardiff is my home and has been a regular stomping ground for me as an LGBT+ person. Since turning 18, I've been learning and exploring more about my home city's LGBT+ scene. From clubbing to protests, recent years in Wales' capital has underlined that it is a city with a lot to offer.
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Now, I'm not saying it's perfect by any means, it's all a work in progress. It would be daft of me to try and justify that Cardiff is a homophobic and transphobic free place. But this isn't a piece about the negatives, it's about seeing the light in the cracks that make this city a bustling and forward-thinking place for people like me to thrive. In the last two years, Covid made LGBT+ life a lot less colourful. We were stuck indoors and forced to switch to Zoom drag shows to keep us entertained, we pledged our wallets to local queer businesses and we kept each other in high spirits.
