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Being a Proud Baggie

Being a Proud Baggie Proud Baggie member Eve Ray reflects on her association with Proud Baggies after 2019's Birmingham Pride Parade. I suppose I should have been part of the LGBT scene rather longer than I have. I occasionally go to meetups of the Birmingham LGBT Meetup and have met some people I really like. But I never had time to go that often. Their main event is Coffee and Cake on a Saturday afternoon, and on Saturday afternoons I often have other things to do, like supporting West Bromwich Albion. And when I say that if I had the choice between going to a Baggies game and having lunch with Victoria Broom, I would mostly choose the match you will see where I am coming from on this one.It was last August that I read the winning entries in the annual competition run by When Saturday Comes for new writers. One of these was a really excellent piece about he LGBT Albion supporter’s group, the Proud Baggies. So I signed up. A few days later I met Sarah Robinson, the author of...