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A hate crime on Arran? No, just a sign of where we are now

A hate crime on Arran? No, just a sign of where we are now

Arran hasn’t had many LGBTQ+ Pride events but it so happens I was staying on the island in 2023 when they had one of their first. I remember noticing the Pride flags on the lampposts along the seafront in Brodick and having a couple of apparently conflicting thoughts – conflicting because of the divisive and divided place we’ve in now.

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