Isle of Wight Pride trustee Matt Bundy and his partner Joe completed a gruelling challenge this weekend to highlight LGBT+ human rights issues across the globe.
MATT and Joe walked non stop on the Coastal path around the Isle of Wight on Friday, April 13 to bring attention to the 72 countries around the world were being LGBT+ remains illegal.
They dedicated each mile of the walk to a Country where being LGBT+ remains illegal. On the route they shared information about each country via twitter, while at the same time updating people who were following their progress on a live tracker..
Matt said: “Right now, there is a lot of physical and emotional exhaustion. Our legs don’t work and I think we have managed to gain 72 blisters between us! Its pretty emotional too to think not only about what we have just done, but also the incredible engagement and awareness raising of vitally important issues. With the commonwealth heads of Government meeting this week, we urge Theresa May to ensure that LGBT+ rights are firmly on the agenda, its shocking that 37 of the commonwealth countries still discriminate and persecute LGBT+ citizens. This has to stop.”
You can review their walk and the information about each country via the Pride Twitter and facebook pages @IWpride.
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