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Top End Pride Chair Amber Sayers-Hunt on all the events coming to Katherine and the Top End for PRIDE · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Our top End Pride is excited to present Whopping nineteen
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  Speaker 1: events over two weekends for the Katherine Pride Festival and
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  Speaker 1: the Darwin Pride Festival, which begin on the seventeenth and
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  Speaker 1: run up until the twenty sixth of June. And Top
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  Speaker 1: End Pride Chair Ambersayer's Hunt said that it is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a huge celebration for the lgbt qia plus
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  Speaker 1: community and their friends, family, visitors and allies. And she
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  Speaker 1: joins me on the line right now, Good morning to you, Amber. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're just having a bit of an issue with your
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  Speaker 1: phone line there.
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  Speaker 2: Can you hear us? Okay, yeah, I can hear you.
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  Speaker 2: I can hear I can hear you perfectly now?
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  Speaker 3: And how will move?
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  Speaker 2: How big has Pride become in the top End?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's starting to get very big. I mean that
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  Speaker 3: was out with our plan a few years ago, was
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  Speaker 3: to try and get it in line with the he's
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  Speaker 3: around Australia and make it a really you know, an
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  Speaker 3: event that others would want to come to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: visitors and other you know, other people from around the
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  Speaker 3: world and around Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what are some of the most well, what are
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that are going to be happening. Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: over it sounds like it's going to be massive. Nineteen
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  Speaker 1: events over two weekends. What are some of the wonderful
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  Speaker 1: events taking place?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Okay, So in Catherine we've got we've got Bears
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  Speaker 3: and Bombshell Bingo that's selling really well at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: We've also got Dime with Pride which we had last
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  Speaker 3: year and that's that's actually sold out that one unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: so if if you missed out on that one, there's
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  Speaker 3: drink and draw. So we've got the fabulous wonder Mama
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  Speaker 3: coming up from Sydney and she's a qualified artist and
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  Speaker 3: she's going to do a couple of sittings down in Catherine.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're selling really well as well. With a
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  Speaker 3: few more spots left, and that Catherine will mean with
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  Speaker 3: a picnic Day, so that's on Sunday Fans Day. Come
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  Speaker 3: on down and enjoy them stalls and some entertainment and
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  Speaker 3: it's just a really family orientated place for kids to go.
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  Speaker 3: There'll be some drag queens story time as well. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be really great, really great EVNT in
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  Speaker 3: Catherine is it the first meet a couple of days
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  Speaker 3: Respite do you.
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  Speaker 1: Need a couple of days rest before you get back
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  Speaker 1: into some more events?
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  Speaker 3: There is that, right, that's right, we all come back
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  Speaker 3: to Dow and do it all over again.
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  Speaker 1: Now, is that the first time that you've held that
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  Speaker 1: there've been events for Catherine for Pride, for Top End Pride.
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  Speaker 3: No, this is officially our second Catherine Pride. But the
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  Speaker 3: year before that we did a Top End Dow and
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  Speaker 3: Pride on the road a road show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, rong.
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  Speaker 3: We took ad and Pride to Catherine in a road
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  Speaker 3: show and it was really well received. So after we
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  Speaker 3: went down there and we had a few sold out events,
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  Speaker 3: it was like, yeah, no, these guys need their own festival.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why we push forward. And now there's a
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  Speaker 3: Catherroom Festival and the Darwin Festival.
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  Speaker 1: And what are some of the most important messages coming
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  Speaker 1: out of Pride this month?
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  Speaker 3: Well, fears, because it's about our fear, strength and our resilience,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. So it's about being seen. It's
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  Speaker 3: about you know, having visibility in the community and inclusivity.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's really important that that everyone knows that they
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  Speaker 3: have support, they're not their loone. We hear that's what
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  Speaker 3: it's about. It's about being seen, so you know, making
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  Speaker 3: safe spaces for everyone to come together, however you identify.
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  Speaker 3: And in particular this year, the trans community is especially
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  Speaker 3: the kids have been getting a bit of grief federally
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  Speaker 3: and through the election, so they need to know that
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  Speaker 3: their loved and you know, support it.
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  Speaker 2: And how look.
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  Speaker 1: When you when you look at something like that, when
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  Speaker 1: you talk about something like that, how important is it
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  Speaker 1: then or how important are events like the ones that
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  Speaker 1: you are putting on both in in the top end
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  Speaker 1: and also in Catherine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean they're important for our community because it's
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  Speaker 3: it's hopefully safe spaces where they can come and be
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  Speaker 3: together and not feel alone. And I guess in Catherine
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  Speaker 3: in particular, it's a little bit more remote country town
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  Speaker 3: type thing. And you know there are there is a
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  Speaker 3: community down there that that needs support. They have support groups,
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  Speaker 3: little support groups down there. But this kind of brings
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  Speaker 3: everyone out of the woodwork, so to speak, and then
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  Speaker 3: you know there's going to be headspace down there and
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  Speaker 3: they'll be all sorts of support networks who have stalled
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  Speaker 3: at the family days if anyone feels that they need
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  Speaker 3: to reach out and don't know where to go, then
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  Speaker 3: these kind of family days will will highlight who can
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  Speaker 3: help them if they need any help. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: they don't they don't you know, sit at home and
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  Speaker 3: feel that there's nobody out there.
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  Speaker 1: For them at the most the community, whether or not
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  Speaker 1: their l G B, t Q I plus or other.
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  Speaker 2: Do they like to get involved?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Yeah, we've got some amazing allies and obviously
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  Speaker 3: family and friends, and yeah, our family days are often
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  Speaker 3: frequented by many groups of different different family groups type thing,
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily anyone in their family may identify. When we
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  Speaker 3: have our market stools, we have lots of parents, younger
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  Speaker 3: parents bringing their kids up and the kids are very young,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to buy stickers or badgers or a hat
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  Speaker 3: or something like that. And there's no issue there with
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  Speaker 3: those parents that they're happy for, you know, their kids
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  Speaker 3: to be involved and you know that there's no reason
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  Speaker 3: to be scared of the rainbow. So you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a great thing. And those kids will grow up
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  Speaker 3: with no you know, no inhibitions or no you know
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  Speaker 3: ingrain kind of bigotry anything like that. It's all hate.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's something that they will always hopefully they'll never fear. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's no need.
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  Speaker 1: To absolutely one hundred percent correct and such an important message.
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  Speaker 1: Heyber that the crossing in the city is looking beautiful again,
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  Speaker 1: finally been sort of brightened up a bit.
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  Speaker 3: I know how awesome is It looks fantastic, so bright
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  Speaker 3: and just in time for our parade, which starts on
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  Speaker 3: the Saturday next week on the twenty fifth. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll be starting our parade from that point, so over
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  Speaker 3: and I get to get to walk over the rainbow
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  Speaker 3: and in you know, not literally but you know.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean, clothes as slice as we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well we don't want to be doing that
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  Speaker 3: too soon. Yeah, so we'll go on the parade that
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  Speaker 3: is from nine am at Raintree Park. Everyone can meet
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  Speaker 3: down there, and then we end up at the family
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  Speaker 3: Day in the in Civic Park and that'll be really big.
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  Speaker 3: There's I think it's fifteen or something seventeen stalls up
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  Speaker 3: there again, a variety of allies services that the LGB
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  Speaker 3: community can use. So there's yeah, some really great stuff
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  Speaker 3: on this the weekend after. We've got the cabaret as well,
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  Speaker 3: which are selling really fast. So if anyone wants to
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  Speaker 3: go to that. That's Silk's on the rooftop. That's going
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  Speaker 3: to be just fantastic. And there's the Fluro Fiercely Thureau
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  Speaker 3: Dance Party, which is going to be great. That's it
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  Speaker 3: ow and Entertainment. So and then we're flying up DJ
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  Speaker 3: Kitty Glitter and Dan Murphy for that from Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So that should be fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun,
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  Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you joining us this morning to
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  Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about it.
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  Speaker 2: Amber says Hunt.
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  Speaker 1: If there is anybody out there listening this morning who's thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I want a little bit more info, can they find
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  Speaker 1: it on Facebook or head to a website or somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, we've got our Facebook page and we've also
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  Speaker 3: got top end top Endpride, dot com, dot au. Go
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  Speaker 3: there and they'll be able to find their tickets. Tickets
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  Speaker 3: for almost everything except dime A Priority is sold out. Sorry,
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  Speaker 3: dime Re Priete is sold out. All the rest are available,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah that it will just be a fantastic, really
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  Speaker 3: really busy weekend. Guarantee that won't be able to speak
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  Speaker 3: come next Monday, the twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 2: So we won't ask you.
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  Speaker 1: We won't ask you on for a debrief to find
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  Speaker 1: out how it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: You might not have a voice left.
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  Speaker 3: That's as long as I think I'll be okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and lovely to speak to you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate you joining us and letting us know
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  Speaker 1: a bit more about Pride Week. Such a wonderful event
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  Speaker 1: and so great to see so much on.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome. Thank you, Katie, Thank you