{"id":17712,"date":"2025-08-01T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17712"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:56:45","slug":"soho-pride-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17712","title":{"rendered":"Soho Pride – 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Soho Pride<\/strong> – 1st August 2004: Soho Pride was a festival celebrated in the streets around Old Compton Street from 2003-2008, a separate event from the annual London Pride parade which now takes over the whole area for after-parties on the day of the parade. You can read a little more about it # on the Historic England web site which has a “Self-Guided Virtual Heritage Walking Tour” 130 Years of Queer Soho (or thereabouts) which includes Soho Pride<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I paid the first Soho Pride a brief visit in 2003 on my way home from a busy 5th July<\/a> after covering a protest calling for legal recognition of British Sign Language and the Somerstown Festival Of Cultures. There are just a few pictures of Soho and Soho Pride 2003 on My London Diary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I spent rather longer at Soho Pride 2004, and here is what I wrote it on My London Diary – and all the pictures in this post come from the 2004 festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first Soho Pride held last year was a great success, and this year's event followed the same pattern. Street closures, restaurant tables in the roadway, DJs and loud sounds, people out to eat, drink, dance and generally have a good time.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Even in mid-afternoon, the streets were beginning to get really packed, especially outside the more popular gay bars and around the club DJs.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Really it was one big party, and a party that catered for almost all tastes except in music, which was uniformly relentless club beats. Perhaps a pity that the Jazz On The Streets events had beat a retreat to Carnaby Street (surely forty years behind us with flower power.)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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After a while I began to feel my age, and escaped to the Underground and home for a quiet and leisurely alfresco dinner with a few glasses of white wine.<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
More pictures on My London Diary from  Soho Pride 2004<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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