Pride in London

That day saw the UK's first Pride march. Organisations including the Gay Liberation Front and the Campaign for Homosexual Equality took part, and somewhere between 200 and 500 people turned out - heavily policed. The route ran from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, and the organisers called it a carnival parade of protest: celebration and political act at once, in a year when equality was decades away. From those few hundred, today's parade has become one of the largest gatherings the city holds.

Soho remains the historic heart of queer London, around Old Compton Street, but the scene did not stay there: Vauxhall holds the big clubs, East London - Dalston, Hackney, Bethnal Green - the more experimental parties and drag nights, and the South Bank its own quarter. The city also has separate events across the same summer, among them UK Black Pride and Trans Pride, each with its own demands and its own crowd. The list here shows LGBTQ+ friendly events as a whole and not only those falling inside the week of the parade - which is why it keeps something on it through the winter, when the parade is a year away.