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It’s a common grump among the gay community that Pride is no longer political. Worse still, some say, it’s actually become meaningless. Civil partnerships, an equal age of consent and the abolition of Section 28 all ensured that for a generation of younger lesbian, gay and bisexual people, full legal equality has been delivered.

Pride marches never seem to tell a coherent narrative, but are in fact many things to many different people. And in a week in which New York legalised gay marriage, this year’s event was just as much a cultural rather than a political celebration of what it means to be gay in the capital. There was clearly no overwhelming call from pride-goers for the benefits of ‘proper’ marriage to be considered in the UK.

Full Article appeared on SoSo Gay written by Paul Prentice.