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# Why ‘Pride Matters’ to Vince Laws
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/why-pride-matters-to-vince-laws/
- Published: 2014-02-24T11:10:13.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-24T11:16:01.000Z
- Description: HIV activist, artist, performer and campaigner Vince Laws explains why ‘Pride Matters’ to him. So Why is Pride Important? Let me tell you why. The bird that lives life In a cage lives no life at all. The bird that never Sees the sky Never feels the sun Is like the caged canary That only […]
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- Tags: Arts, Poetry, Pride

## HIV activist, artist, performer and campaigner Vince Laws explains why ‘Pride Matters’ to him.

![Vince Laws](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/web-600122.jpg)

**So Why is Pride Important?**  
Let me tell you why.

The bird that lives life  
In a cage lives no life at all.  
The bird that never  
Sees the sky  
Never feels the sun  
Is like the caged canary  
That only knows one song.

Imagine!  
Setting that bird free  
Letting it be the best canary it could ever be.

That’s why Pride’s important  
And it belongs to everyone  
Because we all deserve to be our best  
To see the sky, the sun.

Norwich, once you were canaries,  
But now that you have Pride  
I can see your eagle soar  
Across a rainbow sky.