13 January 2020
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Christmas celebration and Get Together - 3 January 2020
The Steering Committee of Drachma wishes you a merry and blessed Christmas and a happy New Year. May the Child of Bethlehem fill your hearts fill your hearts with joy and peace!
We would also like to invite you to our Christmas celebration and Get Together on Friday 3 January 2020 at the Millennium Chapel, Paceville at 19.30. You and your families are most welcome to join!
If you wish to being some food and drinks for the party, please let us know by sending an email to drachmalgbt@gmail.com.
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MALTA PRIDE 2019 - DRACHMA PRESS RELEASE
Drachma – Gay Pride 2019
We are celebrating fifteen years from Malta’s first
gay pride and the fiftieth anniversary from the Stonewall Riots that was one of
the seminal moments in the history of the LGBTIQ+ movement in the world. Soon
after the gay ‘Pride’ became an annual event in various countries and places
around the world. Such marches constituted an attempt by the LGBTIQ+ community
to have itself counted and respected. The cry then as now was quite simple: We
exist. We are humans. We deserve dignity!
We may think that faith has had very little to do with
the LGBTIQ+ liberation movement around the world. That is not really true. Even
before the Stonewall Riots, in America, the first Catholic and Christian
LGBTIQ+ groups started working for integration of faith and sexuality and
striving for social justice. Dignity USA this year also celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary, and Drachma had the privilege of attending their anniversary
celebrations last July. Over the decades, other similar groups emerged in
America and Europe.
Today, Drachma also belongs to the European Forum of
Christian LGBT Groups established in the mid-1970s, and the Global Network of
Rainbow Catholics (GNRC), established a few years ago as a coalition of 40
groups with thousands of Catholic LGBTIQ+ members from around the world. For
another term Drachma’s representative is co-chair of GNRC and we march with the
GNRC banner for a second year.
We wish other Catholics would join us in this march because we are proud of our faith, proud of our church and proud of who God made us!
Drachma has also played an important role in the local
campaign for LGBTIQ rights. It is the second oldest LGBTIQ+ group in Malta and
has played a very active role in the Consultative Council as Malta enacted
legislation that gave LGBTIQ people rights and equality. Drachma is composed of
two groups, a LGBTI+ group and a Parents Group. Together we bridge-build with
the Church because we believe in dialogue with all faiths and the LGBTIQ+
community.
Drachma is a founder member of the European Network of Parents of LGBTI+ Persons and welcomes parents and friends to march with us today in solidarity with other LGBTI+ families.
Why do we celebrate Pride? We celebrate Pride and we
keep on doing so, because we believe that there are still LGBTIQ persons in our
families, in our neighbourhoods and in our towns that still feel emarginated
and in the periphery. We need to express this hope, especially for those who
cannot be with us today to celebrate our dignity and our humanity. We need to
remind ourselves that more still needs to be done for everyone to feel ‘safe’,
‘loved’ and ‘proud’.
This is our Pride. This is what we celebrate! This is our hope!
This is our Pride. This is what we celebrate! This is our hope!
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