Thousands of individuals have marched on London as a part of town’s Pride parade.

The march acquired beneath means from midday from Hyde Park with more than 30,000 people expected to take part in the parade itself.

The occasion marks 51 years because the first march for LGBTQ+ rights by means of the capital.

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Metropolitan Police confirmed they made seven arrests for public nuisance after a “small number of protesters” sat down within the street at Piccadilly junction with Down Street 1.30pm.

The arrests have been made at round 1.45pm with the street cleared inside minutes to permit the parade to proceed, the power mentioned.

Just Stop Oil had warned of potential disruption forward of the march because it known as on Pride in London to not settle for sponsorship cash from “high-polluting industries”.

LGBT+ members of the group additionally known as for floats from these organisations to be banned and mentioned organisers ought to condemn new oil, gasoline and coal.

Pride in London known as for the parade to get the “respect and focus it deserves”.

Mayor of Londom Sadiq Khan informed Sky News any protest ought to be “peaceful, safe and lawful”.

“Actually, Pride in London, the 600 groups marching in the parade or the 35,000 people on the parade themselves are protesting at the fact that things aren’t perfect in London,” he mentioned.

“Particularly when it comes to the trans community who face stigmatisation, demonisation and have been weaponised in a culture war.

“So the irony the place individuals on a protest might have protests in opposition to them is not misplaced on members of this excellent neighborhood.”

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In an announcement, Just Stop Oil mentioned partnerships with “poisonous” industries “embarrass the LGBTQ+ neighborhood”.

“If London Pride fails to take these fundamental steps obligatory to guard our neighborhood, we must contemplate potential escalations which can end result within the disruption of Pride,” they said,

“We may even name for the complete LGBTQ+ neighborhood to affix us in protest and boycott – for the protection of LGBTQ+ individuals all over the place.”

A spokesperson for Pride in London mentioned that its focus this 12 months was was making certain the trans neighborhood know they “#NeverMarchAlone”.

“We call on all individuals, groups and organisations to give this space the respect and focus it deserves in an increasingly hostile and unsafe world,” they added.