Environmentalists are going against the LGBT community. That is what happened at the Pride Day parade in London, England and can be seen in a video that has since gone viral on social media:
🏳️🌈 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL DISRUPTS PRIDE
🧯 LGBTQ+ supporters of Just Stop Oil have disrupted the Pride in London parade, blocking Coca-Cola's float and spraying black and pink paint over the road.
🧵 A thread on why we've disrupted #PrideInLondon: pic.twitter.com/bGjudM9VUl
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) July 1, 2023
Just Stop Oil, the organization behind the protest, explained in a series of tweets that they had previously met with the organizers of last Saturday's event to ask them to publicly renounce the new oil and gas licenses.
In the face of the refusal, Just Stop Oil decided to protest in front of the Coca-Cola float, a company it describes as "the world's biggest plastic polluter and who have been accused of numerous human rights abuses." It also accused the organizers of allowing "destructive industries" to take advantage of the Pride march to "pinkwash themselves."
🛢 The LGBTQ+ supporters of Just Stop Oil have taken action against Pride in London today, because the organisation is working with industries complicit in worsening the climate crisis.
👉 Pride in London has failed to address and take responsibility for these relationships.
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) July 1, 2023
