#and may i remind you that for example czech rep doesn’t have legalised same sex marriage

[lhrry]

anyway i just want to remind you all that the first shows in the UK were tragic in regard to atmosphere and homophobia and people feeling so unsafe they didn’t dare hold up their pride flags, they were even getting hostile looks for having rainbow sweatshirts and stuff, it’s not that the UK and European shows were rainbow from the beginning, not at all. We had to start a conversation around it, one that harry was aware of, i started an entire initiative to change that because i could not accept harry’s shows did not have rainbows and didn’t feel safe and i thought i was setting myself up for failure but people wanted to make this happen as well, they started doing local projects because we just didn’t want to accept that and it was breaking our hearts that harry’s shows were unsafe spaces for queer fans, and we managed to change it incredibly quickly because we are still here, we matter and we deserve to feel safe and joyful, and people just needed a nudge and feel it’s a collective effort. so it’s not that it’s an inevitable, unchangeable situation, we worked to make the european shows what they were, the crowd and harry collaborated on that and as harry said every small act of kindness can contribute to a big change.