Thousands join London's Pride parade

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Crowds have gathered in Central London to celebrate the capital's LGBTQI+ communities with the annual Pride parade.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I feel fabulous and I'm so grateful and excited to be here. I think this is just like a full

00:27circle moment for me. I think our community is such a resilient community and for me this

00:32is just a huge celebration of the essence of what pride is and what it means to be here

00:38for me.

00:39I just love to support all the LGBTQ plus community. I've got loads of friends and family

00:44who are part of it and it's just very, very important to me and such a big deal. It's

00:50just so much fun and there's just so much love when you're here. It's lovely. It makes

00:53a change from everything else.

00:56I feel like I have to come out and say that I am actually a straight man. I just have

01:00a lot of friends that are in the community, almost exclusively. I can't escape it. Like

01:07Holly said, it's just a case of love is love, right? Do your thing.

01:12It's brilliant to just have a lot of people who are collectively here for just one thing.

01:17It's really nice to just see so many people who are just happy to be with who they are

01:23and who they are. I'm just here for the lesbians on motorbikes really. I just really like...

01:31I don't know. It's just nice to have people united for one thing, for once. I don't know.

01:40I just like seeing people happy. That's it. That's about it.

01:43It's all about making people feel safe and that they can be who they want to be and freedom

01:48and that. It's also just a really nice, happy environment.

01:51It's absolutely fantastic. The atmosphere is brilliant. We're loving it. Everyone's

01:56cheering and clapping, supporting everybody that comes by. I've been doing this for 20

02:02years now, supporting this community and I'm going to carry on.

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