Activism - Limburg Pride & Antwerp Pride (2025)
Love the person you fall in love with.. and be happy if that person loves you back.
Be the person you feel you are.. and live your life in peace and in harmony with the world.
Never forget that a Pride is actually a protest march to make you remember that there are compatriots of yours struggling to have the same rights & possibilities as you just because they refuse to hide their true feelings & their true self in the bottom drawer of a dark closet like so many did before them in order to comply with a general opinion that was imposed on people by several dogmatic, patriarchal religions and authoritarian politicians. (and their following)
A Pride is about being persecuted for doing no wrong to anyone else. About making choices that matter to yourself and no-one else should feel bothered by. It's about humans who are being denied basic human rights. About a lack of fundamental freedom. About people who need to defend themselves from haters. Who often have to fight to get the same possibilities as non-LGBTQIA+ people.
Maybe it's because I prefer being in the company of open-minded, creative people and as a result I feel less in touch with the increasingly emerging religious zealots & ideologically simplistic souls who fear anything outside their strict lines, but to me they are things are very simple: all human beings deserve the same rights, duties, protections and opportunities. And every single human needs to protect the planet, the animals & living things on Earth. Period.
PS. If you're interested in short testimonials about LGBTQIA+ in the cosplay community, then watch, like and share the short Instagram/Tiktok videos we're filming all Summer in the Japanese Garden of Hasselt. There will be weekly uploads right HERE till early September (and yes, you can contact us if you'd like to join with your own testimonial).
▷ All photos can always be found on/downloaded from my Flickr and here!
▷ A "How to download stills from Flickr" tutorial was posted here.
▷ Some highlights might go to Instagram, Threads or Bluesky.
▷ A video might go to Clapper & to Tiktok
▷ Buy Red Cathedral a whisky on Ko-Fi
▷ Updates are on THE Facebook.
▷ Give a follow to this young creative foundation: Deep Red Noise vzw/asbl (incl. a Tiktok account)
The full gallery (Click on the arrows on the side to scroll):
UPDATE: 5% of all photos from Hasselt have been processed + uploaded. #patience
UPDATE: 0% of all photos from Antwerpen have been processed + uploaded. #august2025
A direct link to this acticle: https://tinyurl.com/prides2025
Namaste and don't forget to give a follow on some socials!
