As the blinds roll down on a sweltering June and Pride Month, London is readying itself for perhaps the biggest party of the year — the Pride march, which this year falls on Saturday July 5 (Trans+ Pride follows on Saturday July 26, and UK Black Pride on Sunday August 10).
More than 35,000 people are expected to attend, from more than 500 LGBTQ+ community groups; each will be marching not just in celebration, but in protest. It is sometimes forgotten, obscured by all the sequins and rainbows, that Pride began and remains an LGBTQ+ protest against the discrimination and injustice that many of the 1.8 million British adults in the queer community still face, sometimes with depressing regularity.
