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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 have been on the streets of London for the Pride parade. | |
Starting at Portland Place, the parade went across Oxford Circus and down Regent Street before arriving at Whitehall via Trafalgar Square. | |
This year's event celebrated 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 were taking 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 Red Arrows carried out a flypast at 13:25 BST. |
Don Pepper, who was at London's first pride event said it was very different then. | 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 were 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." | |
All pictures copyrighted. | All pictures copyrighted. |