Studies show the extraordinary positive impact of named community sponsorship, both on LGBT+ people fleeing persecution and the neighbourhoods that welcome them, writes Sebastian Rocca P ride Month could be a celebration of how far we have come since the Stonewall Riots of 1969, when LGBT+ people stood up against persecution by the authorities in New York. Yet for the people we support at Micro Rainbow – people who fled persecution in countries where being queer can mean imprisonment or death –