Crowds celebrate 50th Pride parade in London

The streets of London were filled with color on Saturday as the English capital marked 50 years of Pride. After two years of cancellations because of the coronavirus pandemic, the parade came a half-century after London’s first march to celebrate Pride in 1972.

Organizations ranging from charities to universities to the emergency services were also represented. The move came in response to LGBTQ+ campaigners raising concerns over their confidence in policing, in particular the quality of the police force's investigation into murders carried out by serial killer Stephen Port.