Edinburgh pride was great - felt far more grassroots and non-corporate than London (although that does mean you miss out on the floats with sound systems), very lightly policed, warm atmosphere, and a thumping theme of standing up for trans rights.
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There was also a guy in the parade carrying a beautiful but extremely nonplussed mottled grey Maine coon, which was certainly a bold choice given the weather forecast. And crowd. And entire disposition of cats.
Possibly the biggest contrast with London pride was that people seemed to be taking their litter home with them. London after pride has a whole geological stratum of Prosecco bottles and gin and tonic cans. Edinburgh looked like the cleanup would take about ten minutes. Bravo.
Funnily enough that's why I sacked off Leeds Pride the past few years - I'll probably do it once with the BF so he can see what it's like, but I'll take Edinburgh Pride's Lidl truck and a couple of sponsor signs to Leeds' "and here's another corporate sponsor, and another"
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