We had an utterly fantabulosa time at Pride in London yesterday!
Having decided that in the absence of our old "home base" The Shaston Arms [formerly Our Sal's pub - RIP], our somewhat depleted gang [neither Sal nor Lou could make it, and others had alternative plans for what they were doing for Pride] we would meet up in The Kings Head pub in Mayfair close to our favoured spot on Piccadilly near the Burlington Arcade, we had a comfortable few snifters before assuming positions.
As ever, our completely OTT outfits outshone just about anything on the parade/march itself! And so it was, as always, that we had more of the corporate-branded t-shirt-wearing participants taking photos of us than we took of them. It's a shadow of its former self, more's the pity, nowadays. So many boring t-shirts and so few creative costumes.
Speaking of the parade...
...and - we made it to The Guardian!
We and more than a million people thoroughly enoyed it!
Roll on next Gay Xmas...
Well, thank goodness for the military otherwise it would have just been you and your gang in fabulous costumes! (Okay, so theirs are uniforms - and I'm not keen on the brown ones - but at least they dressed up.) The Pink Mafia - It's no wonder you were papped so much! Fabulous!
ReplyDeleteHa! "The Pink Mafia" - that's us!
DeleteIt was striking just how many of the groups who were allowed to march (we would have needed to register, get wristbands, and be given our place in the pecking order in the parade; when we've done that in the past we waited hours to even start moving) looked really dull and homogenous.
We're not "branded t-shirt" kind of people. Ever!
The whole thing needs a bloody good review. Why have a Pride at all if it's not free-form and open to all, like it always was? Not that any of this shit - nor even some of the dodgier politics creeping into the whole shebang - will prevent us from being there and being fabulous, of course! Jx
You all look fabulous but I have to say the fan hat is amazing! So wonderful to see. And you made it into The Guardian!!!
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