'Every day we're continuing to have to fight'
London's Pride director has hailed this year's event saying it was "absolutely brilliant" but added more battles needed to be won for LGBTQ+ people.
"We're able to provide that form of visibility, unity, quality, that the world can see and it sends a message of solidarity to those persons who may be thinking 'I can't be open', 'I can't be visible or I'll be prosecuted in my country," he said.He added: "The battles have not all been won.
"Yesterday when we were in Trafalgar Square, and we were chanting 'trans rights are human rights', we were pushing that so that volume of noise was heard at Downing Street and beyond, to the millions or people on the footprint and thousands on the parade.
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