For the third year in a row, senior leadership and staff from Lambeth Council will officially join 35,000 people taking part in the Pride march through central London on 5 July.
This year, as we celebrate our commitment to diversity and community and being the borough with the largest LGBTQ+ population in London (and one with a proud history of LGBTQ+ campaigning and social activism), Lambeth’s float is being upgraded from 2024’s rainbow-decorated tractor to a double-decker London bus.
Celebrate Pride in the borough
Lambeth hosts events throughout June’s Pride Month:
- Lambeth’s Pride Reception, hosted by the Leader of the Council, Cllr Claire Holland, will again invite Lambeth’s LGBTQ+ community organisations, charities and businesses to celebrate Lambeth’s rich history with Pride in the Assembly Hall – the site of pioneering Gay Liberation Front events – and look to the future with plans for Lambeth’s own 2026 Pride event and the launch of the Lambeth Pride logo.
- On the last weekend of May, Brockwell Park again hosted Europe’s most fabulous and inclusive pop festival, the Mighty Hoopla.
- In the 1980s and 1990s Lambeth’s parks hosted 12 Pride Marches (including EuroPride & Black Pride), getting bigger year by year from Jubilee Gardens in 1985 to crowds of thousands on Clapham Common in the ‘90s. Those Prides gave the community a way of coming together in the face of the AIDS crisis, of Clause 28, and of Hate Crime. Community organisation Lambeth Links invited people who were there to bring photographs and memorabilia for a month-long exhibition, ‘Share Your Pride’, in Lambeth Archives – a powerful reminder that Lambeth has long welcomed the LGBTQ+ community and supported both its spirit of activism and its love of celebration.
- Do It London, the HIV prevention awareness campaign for all Londoners, led from Lambeth Council on behalf of all London’s local authorities, is launching a redesigned website in June with updated advice on HIV prevention, testing, medication and working together to overcome HIV stigma.
- Lambeth Libraries continue their month-long Readers & Writers Festival into Pride Month with community events:
- the LGBTQ+ Book Club discuss love letters
- award-winning author Adam Mars-Jones talks about his novels
- and a ‘zine fair features self-published work from diverse communities.
- Lambeth will fly the Progress Flag from the Town Hall for the Pride March weekend.
