We meet for a coffee by Regent's Canal and I ask Hinton whether fashion has always been important at Pride. Peter Thatchell, who was present, writes of “extravagant costumes and cheeky banners poking fun at homophobes like Mary Whitehouse.”ĭJ and artist Jeffrey Hinton was involved in the Gay Liberation Front and attended his first Pride in 1974. This event was sparsely attended (with 700 people present, compared to 1 million in 2018) but the attendees made up for the lack of numbers by being visibly and audaciously queer. London didn’t see its own until three years later, in 1972.
The first gay Pride proper took place in New York the following year.
