LGBTQ culture in London

[4] The UK branch of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) held its first meeting in a basement room in the London School of Economics in 1970.

[5] The group later organised the first official UK pride protest in 1972,[6] which has since become an annual event and one of the world's largest of its kind.

Switchboard, one of the oldest UK-wide LGBTQ+ telephone helplines in the UK, was founded in 1974 in Housmans bookshop's basement near King's Cross.

[8] On May 24, 1989, exactly one year after the Thatcherite anti-homosexuality Section 28 legislation became law, the London-founded charity Stonewall formally announced its formation.

Due to its lasting legacy of activism and community-building, Historic England has deemed it a site of LGBTQ pilgrimage.

[17][18] In addition to this, the Bishopsgate Institute also hosts the Museum of Transology, a community archive focusing on transgender, nonbinary and intersex people.

The London Trans Pride protest march takes place annually in June or July.