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The Best Of London Pride Week 2015

The Best Gay Pride Events In London (It Isn't All About The Parade)
Sophie Brown
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It's Pride Week, and to celebrate we've rounded up eight amazing events that prove the parade is only the cherry on top of a jam-packed week celebrating all that's good in London's LGBTQ+ community.

The Best Of London Pride Week 2015
Theatre: Told Look Younger(01 of08)
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Jermyn Street Theatre SW1Y9 June to 4 July, 7.30pmTickets from £18A comedy about sex, love, friendship and growing old (credit:Told Look Younger)
Forum: Let's Talk About Gay Sex And Drugs(02 of08)
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Ku Klub, WC2HThursday 25, 6.30pmSign up - the event is freeAn open and honest forum for discussing sex and drug use in the gay male community (credit:Facebook/LetsTalkAboutGaySexAndDrugs)
Photography: #Outcome Exhibition(03 of08)
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New Bloomsbury Set, WC1NMonday 22 to Sunday 28Free eventA series of portraits showing the 'outcome' of growing up, coming out and living life as a LGBTQ+ person (credit:Tom Dingley)
Cabaret: Man Wanted(04 of08)
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The Pheasantry, SW3Tuesday 23, 6:30pmTickets £12Celia Delaney reflects on the desperation of being a 40-something singleton in modern London (credit:Paul L Martin/Celia Delaney)
The Inaugural Big Gay Pub Quiz(05 of08)
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Bankside Space, SE1Tuesday 23, 8pmTickets £10A queer culture pub quiz, covering arts, TV, music, politics and activism. All proceeds go to the Peter Tatchell Foundation (credit:Big Gay Pub Quiz)
Music: London Gay Symphony Orchestra Summer Concert(06 of08)
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St Sepulchre, SE1Saturday 28, 7pmTickets from £8A post-parade classical chill-out courtesy of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra (credit:LGSO)
Pride East(07 of08)
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93 Feet East, E1Saturday 27, 6pm-4amTickets £15The perfect post-parade party. Plus, the first 300 through the door get a free drink on Smirnoff (credit:Pride East)
Theatre: The Machine(08 of08)
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Tristan Bates Theatre, WC2HTuesday 23 and Wednesday 24Tickets £10/£15A play examining the universal themes of boundaries, loyalty and betrayal from a gay perspective (credit:The Machine/Tristan Bates Theatre)

Pride in London has come a long way since the first march in 1972, when only 700 people took to the streets. Gay rights campaigned, Peter Tatchell said: "Many of my friends were too scared to march. They thought everyone would be arrested. We weren’t arrested, but we were swamped by a very heavy, aggressive police presence. They treated us like criminals."

In 2014, there were 200 groups involved in the parade itself, and over 750,000 people are believed to have attended.

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