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| Pride in London marks 50 years of protest | Pride in London marks 50 years of protest |
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| Up to 1.5 million people are expected to take to the streets of London for the Pride parade. | Up to 1.5 million people are expected to take to the streets of London for the Pride parade. |
| Starting at Portland Place, the parade will move across Oxford Circus and go down Regent Street before arriving at Whitehall via Trafalgar Square. | Starting at Portland Place, the parade will move across Oxford Circus and go down Regent Street before arriving at Whitehall via Trafalgar Square. |
| This year's event celebrates 50 years since the first Stonewall uprising in New York. | This year's event celebrates 50 years since the first Stonewall uprising in New York. |
| London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he hoped it would be the biggest Pride event to have been held in London. | London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he hoped it would be the biggest Pride event to have been held in London. |
| More than 30,000 people from 600 groups, organisations and businesses will take part in the event which this year has a theme of Pride Jubilee. | |
| The Red Arrows carried out a flypast at 13:25 BST. | |
| "The great thing about Pride in London is we can celebrate our diversity and it's also a good chance for us not from the LGBT+ community to be allies, and to be proud allies," he said. | "The great thing about Pride in London is we can celebrate our diversity and it's also a good chance for us not from the LGBT+ community to be allies, and to be proud allies," he said. |
| "It's really important that we celebrate the diversity of our city and I want today to be the biggest ever and I think it will be." | "It's really important that we celebrate the diversity of our city and I want today to be the biggest ever and I think it will be." |
| Don Pepper, who was at London's first pride event said it was very different then. | |
| "There was no dressing up, there was no drag - it was just everyone dressed normally," he said, adding that there was probably about 1,000 people marching then. | |
| "There was abuse from cars whereas now people cheer you on but then they would tell you to disappear. There wasn't any entertainment afterwards, we just sat down and had a picnic and that was it." | |
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