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Sye: "Who's looking forward to later?" 

Derick: "YES!"

Fatima: "Very much me." 

Asia: "Aye." 

JoJo: "Meh, not really."

Sye: "What?" 

Fatima: "How'e man? Why not?" 

Jojo: "Where to begin? It's always hot, it's loud, and there are too many people. Hard pass."

Sye: "That's part of the thrill."

JoJo: "I don't care. That's not my idea of a good time. I can be proud and celebrate my identity and my right for freedom without risking a splitting headache and sunstroke."

Asia: "This year's march is a protest." 

JoJo: "It's always a protest. And I will exercise my right to do that by expressing my pride and hosting a gathering of friends and neighbours at my place for film, food and fun. Which you are all invited to." 

Derick: "That does sound quite nice, like."

Fatima: "What films?" 

JoJo: "Milk and Pride." 

Fatima: "Stellar choices. Expect nothing less."

JoJo: "Thanks. It was either that or The Matthew Shepard Story, Prayers for Bobby, and Boys Don't Cry, but we thought to keep it relatively light." 

Grant: "Milk?" 

JoJo: "As in Harvey Milk."

Harris: "Who?" 

Grant: "Is that the drag queen from RuPaul's Drag Race season 6? You know, the one who went against Trinity K. Bonet in that lip sync of Whatta Man? 

Harris: That was such a good lip sync. 

Grant: Iconic.

JoJo: "... ... ... Seriously?" 

Grant: "What?" 

JoJo: "No. Just... just... no." 

Grant: "Have I said something wrong?"

Derick: "No, babes... So, Harvey Milk is a huge deal."

Sye: "An activist. A politician." 

JoJo: "First openly gay politician to be elected in to California public office." 

Derick: "Yeah. Think like Tom Daley or Elliot Page or Yasmin Finney..."

Sye: "Ally Beardsley."

Harris: "Yasmin Benoit?"

Asia: "Exactly!"

Grant: "No way?!"

JoJo: "And he's in the news because wankface wants to remove his name from the USNS Harvey Milk. Erasing iconic queer activists. That's why we chose this film." 

Harris: "No way. He sounds so dope."

JoJo: "Yeah. And we chose Pride because, as well as being a classic, it tells the story of LGSM, Mark Ashton, Sian James and Jonathan Blake." 

Grant: "That name I recognise. He wrote the play Beautiful Thing."

JoJo: "Harvey."

Grant: "What about him?"

JoJo: "Jonathan Harvey wrote Beautiful Thing." 

Grant: "Who's Jonathan Blake then?" 

JoJo: "The second person to ever be diagnosed with AIDS in Britain. Or at least in London. Don't quite remember which." 

Grant: "... Oh..." 

Derick: "And is still alive. At least, last time I checked..."

JoJo: "He's still alive. And still fighting the good fight for our rights." 

Fatima: "Proper hero." 

Grant: "Oh... ... ..." 

JoJo: "Listen, tell you what, why don't you come round after the march and join us for film night?  And we can all engage in the age-old tradition of sharing queer history together as a community." 

Grant: "Yeah? That would be nice." 

Derick: "And we can also watch that lip sync between Beyoncé and Harvey Milk." 

Grant: "Prick." 

Derick: "Love you too." 

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