IDPWD 2025: On Queer Disabled Visibility & Being Proud To Call Myself Disabled

Every year, International Day of People with Disability lands with a small thud on the LGBTQIA+ calendar — a day we absolutely should be shouting about, but often don’t. We turn out in force for other days of visibility and awareness, and we demand justice, inclusion, solemn memorials, acknowledgement, joy. But when it comes to disability — one of the largest, most diverse, most creative communities in the world — our queer spaces have been… slower. Not absent, but heartbreakingly slow.

Chloe Sargeant
Star observer
Wednesday 3rd December, 2025

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