We’ve been marching beside each other at Brighton Pride since 1993. Syncing Docs and demanding equality hand in hand, one placard at a time. Fighting against Clause 28, for equal health care and workplace protections during the AIDS crisis, kicking back against Tory bigoted mandates, campaigning for parenting rights, the equal age of consent, the right to serve, for gender recognition, for our never pretending families, for LGBTQ+ refugees, for worldwide victims of prejudice and hatred, and for our trans brothers and sisters and non-binary souls who make up our LGBTQI+ family. In 2025 we march for our queer future, for the trans kids who need us right now, for the community we are so proud to be part of it.

This year the soundtrack is forever evolving, but the rights we once enjoyed sadly retreating. Now more than ever, we need to stand together to demand true equality for each and every one of our LGBTBQI+ community and fight the Rowling-backed TERFS, Reform-fuelled political narratives, and hate-fuelled bigots that would divide us. We have always been stronger together, whether as butches and queens at the Stonewall riots, lesbians caring for gay men during the AIDS crisis or as angry dykes abseiling into parliament against Section 28, and at this pivotal moment in the fight for Trans right,s we can be so again. Fighting for the right to be, the right to love, as a united LGBTQI+ community.

So, however you do Brighton Pride this year (and we hope you choose to do some if it with us), remember why we are here. Why we march, protest, campaign, and celebrate. And do it with rage and love. What we have is precious and can so easily be taken from us, and the generations of queer activists need us to protect those hard-fought rights. Those rights are ours, but as Starmer’s Labour Government’s action against the Trans community has shown, they are fragile, oh so fragile. This Pride, it’s time to show our united strength. To come together and protect rights fought so hard for back in 1969. It’s time to unite as Pride. It’s time to protect the dolls.

Wildblood and Queenie Brighton Pride 2025. Playing disco and house, and Italo for your listening pleasure at 4 to The Floor @ Fortune of War, Dykes on Decks x Femmme Fraiche @ Tempest, Love Is The Message x 1BTN @ Royal Standard, Brighton Beach House, Patterns, Pride In The Park Pleasuredome and Sunday Sundae @ Patterns. Tickets and info here

We will be donating a percentage of our Pride weekend wages to Good Law Project. If you can, please support The Good Law Project Trans Fighting Fund as they challenge the Supreme Court’s decision to tear up the Equality Act and destroy the lives of trans people across the UK. Donate here