{"id":1077788,"date":"2026-07-09T05:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1077788\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:43:33","slug":"watch-pride-in-london-2026-attendees-on-why-showing-up-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1077788\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Pride in London 2026 attendees on why showing up matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pride in London returned to the capital on 4 July, transforming central London into a sea of rainbow flags in celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/tag\/lgbt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LGBTQIA+<\/a> rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Organisers estimated that more than one million people attended.<\/p>\n<p>With significant progress made in equality and large attendance estimates, the SW Londoner asked those taking part why Pride still matters.<\/p>\n<p>One attendee said: \u201cIt\u2019s still such a protest, talking about all the important things that are still going on here in the UK and all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the most pressing issues brought up among attendees was transgender rights for the community in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Carter and Harriet, undergoing hormone replacement therapy, spoke about the barriers to accessing gender-affirming healthcare in the UK through the NHS and raised concerns about the corporatisation of the event, which dissuades them from participating.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DSC03429-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186685\"  \/>Carter feels Pride has become a spectacle in Central London (Credit: Charles Gagan)<\/p>\n<p>Harriet said: \u201cThese things at Pride are amazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy to celebrate our presence and how far we\u2019ve come \u2013 but we still have a very long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NHS England was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full video below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Featured image credit: Charles Gagan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pride in London returned to the capital on 4 July, transforming central London into a sea of rainbow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1077789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,18794,257,270872,88406,40240,18745,16,15],"class_list":["post-1077788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-lgbt","tag-london","tag-london-pride","tag-piccadilly-circus","tag-pride","tag-transgender","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116888432260425233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}