Doing it Proud for Love & Marriage - London Pride 2013

We've tried to focus this year on what Pride events offer women as traditionally lesbians and bi women have been invisible amongst the masses of events laid on or aimed at men.

With new organisers and a completely different approach to Pride, the March and the events put on for the community, there was a real opportunity to break away from Pride only being meaningful for a small section of the LGBT community.


This year, for the first time we had a Women's Stage (hosted by Candy Bar and supported by FindHrr with free entry).

This was a wonderful event and a great way to spend the day and be part of Pride, even if you don't enjoy marching.

We were treated to an extremely talented set of musicians, from rock to pop to folk. Highlights included:



Rita Payne, a duo who got us off to a fantastic buzzing start that took us into fast beated guitar, mellow harmonies and ending us on a smooth version of Michael Jackson's Billy Jean.

Woman_E brought bubbly Gaga-esque pop-tainment to the stage, getting everyone up and dancing and setting the tone for the remainder of the day.

Pyscho Delia retro-fied us to 80s poptasm with a day-glo performance of electric guitar and drums - and they certainly fired up the "man in the green t-shirt" who was clearly enjoying himself A LOT. Lara King did an amazing job of managing the hecklers and keeping the every growing crowd roaring for all the amazing acts.

N'Chyx

Lyrically Challenged perfection

The urban love was brought to us by Wolverhampton's cheeky N'Chyx who seduced the audience in style, and followed by the performance of the day from Lyrically Challenged Collective who's perfected performance left us with that "one love" that Pride is all about - on message and on point.

Comedy stylings and grace from host Lara King and a set from lesbian favourite Rosie Wilby ensured we chortled in between the music

Hosting the evening section of the stage, Adam All brought variety up a notice (see the photo for the full picture...) with a couple of numbers and introducing the last rocking act before DJ sets took over, The Cut Outs - 2 women, electric guitars - what more could a girl want?

Women were very well catered for in the official post March evening events taking place as well. Perhaps a little too well, as a range of 5-6 events meant some might have been stretched a bit too thin. 

Find all the photos here!

We attended Code at Green Carnation between 9pm - 1am and the Big Gay Bash after that. Both not as full as they could be, but still good to have a choice of events for both women only and mixed that encourage the Pride Party to continue to the wee hours. 

By Katie