In Pictures: World Pride In London 2012

By · July 9, 2012 at 15:30 pm · 4 Comments · Arts and Events · Report an error ·

World Pride was celebrated on the streets of central London on Saturday, despite last-minute cuts and timing changes. Crowds were thinner on Oxford Street than in previous years but the lack of floats and presence of rain did little to dampen the party and political spirit of Pride. Around 25,000 joined the procession, tribute was paid to the 40th anniversary of the first gay pride march in the capital and the rainbow flag flew over Whitehall for the first time.

Official Soho parties were cancelled but that didn’t prevent Pride revellers gridlocking the district to party on regardless.

Many thanks to Zefrog for photos and tip offs and to SReed99342 once and twice, violinconcertono3, Michael O’Sullivan once and twice, Jan Bode, Joel Rowbottom once and twice and Matt Malloy for sharing their photos in the Londonist Flickrpool.

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  • Ryanjamesbrown1991

    Really irritates me when the media run photos of people in S&M gear, certainly the minority at the march, over say a father with his son on his shoulders, or two women marching happily with thier children, which was a much more common sight.

    • http://londonist.com/ Lindsey Clarke

      We tried to mix it up here – pulling from what people posted in our Flickrpool. More being added all the time http://www.flickr.com/groups/londonist/

      • http://twitter.com/MaggieRFreda Maggie R. Freda

        Really irritates me when the media run photos of people in S&M gear, certainly the minority at the march, http://MayorMoney.blogspot.com

  • kate

    whats wrong with being gay you people need to grow up im not gay but i have respect for them there proud with it wasnt common to be straight we would have that sort of thing coz were proud 

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