According to organisers, over 800,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people – plus parents, friends, supporters and a fair few surprised but game shoppers – took part in the celebrations, marching through London in their best Sunday wear and pitching up at Trafalgar Square where we spoke to hundreds of people about the Games and what it means to them. The Deputy Mayor on stage called for London to attract ‘World Pride’ in 2012, as that would be our Olympic year – a sentiment happily endorsed by us in London 2012. It seemed supported by the crowd too, if the popularity of our 2012 stickers was anything to go by.
And so another London pride was over. It has to be said that you don’t really know what diversity is until you’re busy sticking large neon-pink 2012 stickers onto thighs of men wearing nothing but black studded hotpants, a feather headdress and industrial amounts of body-glitter.
