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    Under the rainbow – love and Pride

    Aug 12, 2022 4 minutes

    Reflecting a gloriously vibrant rainbow world of inclusivity and positivity, Pride, the Royal Mail’s new set of Pride-themed stamps, celebrate the 50th anniversary, on 1 June 2022, of the first Pride rally in London.

    Created by queer British artist Sofie Birkin, the eight-stamp set deploys all the colours of the rainbow to tell the story of Pride from its early days to the present, where the traditional rainbow Pride flag has been modified to allow greater inclusivity of queer representation. The most recent addition, in 2021, was incorporating the flags of trans and intersex people and representing the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people of colour. One of the First Class Pride stamps shows a diverse crowd celebrating under the banner of

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