HereditaryPrincess
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I will need to tell my LGBT friends in the UK that face homophobia everyday in the UK that there is apparently a "consensus" on the issue so all is good.
Charles' Country Life cover(s) also touched on climate change--a hot button issue even in the UK with lots of people calling climate change activists "alarmists" and "extremists." Charles has long been called political including on this issue.
Kate's HuffPo stint included an article from Michelle Obama who WAS FLOTUS at the time and thus in a political position versus Meghan asking Michelle (forever FLOTUS in my heart though she is) while she is only a former FLOTUS now. SO again, not controversial. William interviewed Jacinda at Davos about mental health...I again didn't see any hand wringing about that.
And I am not going to keep going down this vein. But it should be noted, that many of the 'traditional' BRF issue areas you highlighted as her not being into she HAS done things for or have a patronage in. In fact for Vogue, some of the people she picked for the cover focus on those very areas.
I agree. Especially with your point on LGBT+ - I have a transgender friend who is too scared to go out in public with his partner for fear of transphobic comments on a daily basis. And let's not even start on his own family, who refuse to refer to him by his new name. He's just one of the many examples of LGBT+ people here in the UK who experience daily homophobia. Homeless members of the community are increasing and only recently we had two young girls who got attacked because they refused to kiss in front of a group of drunken teens on the bus. So, I think this is a hot-topic and rightly so, because we need to address homophobia and casual homophobia that is still very prevalent in British society. Whilst the UK seems more accepting as LGBT+ couples can now marry freely, socially a lot of people still hold conservative views about the community. I don't know from first hand experiences but as I said, I have a lot of LGBT+ friends who have.
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