#knighted

The honor recognizes not only his acclaimed acting career but also his charitable work and advocacy for young people and opportunities in underserved communities.

Action Comics #106, March 1947. Wayne Boring cover pencils, Stan Kaye inks.

Don Quixote Knighted by the Innkeeper

Artist: Francis Hayman RA (English, 1708-1776)

Date: c. 1765-1770

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, England

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I started this tumblr in 2021, a little over 4 years ago, posting about diversity of LGBT People. The thing I’ve learned by researching the lives of others, is that we achieve greater happiness outside the closet. And our strength in numbers helps to oppose the homophobia in the world.

I thought Chris Bryant was a fitting person for my 300th post. He delivered a powerful speech the importance of Gay Pride to Parliament on Monday June 23, 2025.

“People ask me, “Why on earth do you need a Pride Month? Do you really need LGBT History Month? What’s the point of Pride marches and Pride flags? Hasn’t the world changed? Haven’t you already got same-sex marriage and adoption, gays in the police and the military, and laws that protect people from discrimination on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender reassignment? What more do you want?” That is what I hear all the time, even from really well-meaning, liberal souls.

But we have always needed Pride. We needed it when people lazily assumed that a short haircut meant that you were a lesbian or a lisp meant that you were gay. We needed it when people laughed at Larry Grayson and John Inman but forced them to hide their sexuality. We needed it when people said that we should be harassed, arrested and locked up for loving who we wanted. We needed it when the police wore rubber gloves to arrest us, just in case we gave them AIDS. We needed it when we were called queer, faggot and arse bandit at school. We needed it when we were sneered at, spat at, punched, kicked and beaten up.

And we need Pride now—when kids are still bullied because they are camp or butch; when families still throw their LGBT children out of the home; when many are so worn down by abuse that they take their own lives; when so many are so terrified of coming out that they live lives of terrible, crushing loneliness; when people are abused for wanting to transition; when our cousins in Hungary are denied the right to demonstrate; when the state police in many countries deliberately entrap homosexuals; when trans people are treated as less than human; and when homosexuality is still illegal in 63 countries, including 38 that apply those rules to women, and including more than half the Commonwealth. Yes, we still need Pride.”

Chris Bryant was knighted in the 2023 New Year Honours for political and public service.

Bryant entered into a civil partnership with Jared Cranney in 27 March 2010. The ceremony was the first civil partnership ever held in the Houses of Parliament. On their 10th anniversary they got married.

“The Daily Mail once referred to me as an “ex-gay vicar”. I am an ex-vicar, but the other stuff is coming along quite nicely. In fact, I am a practising homosexual—one day I will be quite good at it.”