1991: Estimated 25,000 people joined the march from central London to Kennington Park, up to 45,000 people were estimated to have dropped in on events in the park.
1990: the annual parade went from Victoria via Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, and the Houses of Parliament, and down Kennington Road.
1989: festival in Kennington Park CHE and GALHA jointly issued a commemorative plastic bag entitling the holder to half-price admission to the Winter Fair.
1988: about 40,000 people attended Pride, protesting about Section 28.
1987: March Sloane Square to Shepherd's Bush Green on 8th July,.
Capital Gay estimated attendance at 10,000 and called it, “the biggest gathering of homosexuals Britain has ever seen.” The number of marchers went up to an estimated 15,000, including mining communities showing solidarity in return for gay support during the miners' strike.
1985: the march went from Hyde Park to the Jubilee Gardens.
Capital Gay (8.7.83) reported 2,000 attended 'on happiest Pride parade for years'.
1983: held on 2 July starting in Hyde Park and ending at the University of London Union in Malet Street.
Capital Gay (2.7.82) reported over 1,200 attended and suffered torrential rain. Started at Speakers' Corner, then through Piccadilly Circus ending up at the University of London Union in Malet Street for a dance.
1982: a very wet parade on the last Saturday (June 26th) in London.
1981: the Pride March was moved to Huddersfield for one year only, in protest against police harassment of the Gemini Club.
Clashes with the police occurred in Malet Street. Frank Egan was arrested for having a vegetable cutter in his hat (as part of his drag costume). Featured in two television documentary programmes World in Action on ITV and Inside Story on BBC.
1979: the Pride march was on Saturday 30th June and started at Temple Place, Embankment and marched to Hyde Park for an open air concert.
1978: the Pride march was on Saturday 8th July and started in Sloane Square went via Earls Court, ending at Shepherd's Bush.
1977: the Pride march and picnic was on Saturday 25th June and started at Temple Place, Embankment.
1973: this year's Pride March was organised by CHE.
An estimated 200-700 people took part in the march itself and maybe as many as 1000 in the whole event, including the rally and picnic in Hyde Park. The date was chosen to be the nearest Saturday to the Stonewall riots of 1969.
1972: The first Gay Pride March under that name was held on the 1st of July 1972 and was organised by GLF.
There were about 200 marchers and a large number of police.
1971: There was a small march in 1971, organised by the GLF youth Group, starting with a Gay Day in Hyde Park and then a march down Oxford Street and Regents Street to Trafalgar Square.
London Pride year by year More information needed to complete this section. The company is now branded as Pride in London. In January 2013 it was announced that a community interest company London LGBT Community Pride had been awarded the right to run Pride for five years starting 2013. Gay Pride Marches, subsequently re-branded as Pride Marches and now Pride Parades (see Pride) have been held in London since the early 1970s, normally on the nearest Saturday to 28 June, the anniversary of the Stonewall riots.įrom 2004 to 2012, the London Pride events were organised by the charity Pride London.įollowing widespread dissatisfaction following the last minute scaling back of World Pride 2012, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, invited community bodies to bid to run future Prides. Pride in London logo London Pride is an annual event in London, comprising a march or parade in central London, together with a rally or festival, and sometimes other events.