Pride month returns this June. Adam Bloodworth asked eight LGBTQ workers how they mark the occasion Pride month takes place every June, an opportunity for LGBTQ people to recognise their identities. Members of the community and allies celebrate, as well as protest against the homophobia that still exists in Britain and further afield.
To mark Pride month, City A.M. spoke to leading LGBTQ workers and asked them to share a thought on what the annual event means to them.
Read more: London Pride 2024: here are 15 amazing events to book this June ‘PRIDE IS A £9 LUKEWARM HARD SALTZER’ “Pride, from my experience, is drinking a £9 lukewarm hard seltzer, crammed in some Soho sidestreet, just slightly too crowded to dance to the Whitney Houston mega-mix distorting out of a semiblown soundsystem, having bumped into every guy I’ve ever gone on an unsuccessful Hinge date with, queued 25 minutes to use a porta-loo and lost my sunglasses in the park. “It’s also watching a supportive mum fixing her newly-out son’s glitter. Watching an old lesbian couple dancing together on their balcony.
The pile of friends lying all over each other asleep in Soho square at 5:30pm. Bumping into that one girl from the year above at school and having the “we’re both gay now” moment. “It’s drunk chips, and cheap clothes ruined with expensive drinks.
It’s queer joy, queer mediocrity, queer chaos, noise, color, mess, shame and, of course, pride.” Lynks, musician ‘PRIDE IS HELPING O.
