Migrant Rights & Anti-Racist Pleasure 2016: Motion for Justice organised a Migrant Rights & Anti-Racist Pleasure march to the official Pleasure London procession and joined the principle procession on the excessive finish together with different protest teams who had been relegated to the rear of the lengthy parade.
Many really feel the the official Pleasure occasion has been taken over by company sponsors akin to Barclays and BAE techniques and is a parade relatively than a protest, not representing its roots and that the organisers intentionally marginalise any political teams.
At 12.15 they started their march on Oxford St, going together with others together with London in Solidarity with Istanbul LGBTI Pleasure protesting the banning of Istanbul Pleasure, Lesbians and Gays Help the Migrants.
They walked alongside to Regent Road, turning north and going up in the direction of Portland Place had been the principle Pleasure march was gathering and I went with them, stopping to {photograph} others on the way in which.
As regular there have been some relatively unusual costumes worn by a few of these collaborating, and I photographed a few of these, however prevented the extra company elements of the occasion.
There have been sections of the march that had been nonetheless very recognisably protests, and a few had been marching with banners and placards which might have been on any protest in opposition to racism, homophobia and standing up for the rights of refugees.
Homosexual Muslims on the march with the messages ‘I exist for the enlargement of your thoughts’ and’Halal Babe’.
Stonewall as ever the place there to protest, with a variety of purple t-shirts, some with the message ‘Some Individuals are BI’ or GAY or TRANS, however all ‘Get Over It!’
I took numerous photos as regular, and there are over 100 on them on My London Diary, although the choice I made concentrates on these collaborating in Pleasure as a protest, and maybe misses among the extra outré photographs.
I didn’t hassle to {photograph} the precise march however was nonetheless photographing the teams on the again who had not moved properly over an hour earlier than the parade started. By the point they acquired on the route lots of the spectators can have given up watching and have left for drinks or meals.
Pleasure London 2016
Migrant Rights & Anti-Racist Pleasure
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