Thierry Schaffauser

Attendees celebrated all sexualities, genders, races, and religions, marching for two hours before gathering for speeches inside a church located in the Shoreditch district of the London Borough of Hackney.

The dissemination of the stickers was described by activists as a "hate campaign", and an apolitical parade, titled "East End Gay Pride", was planned by a group of friends as a response.

[6] The event was scheduled for April, but in March 2011, Schaffauser, as Chair of Out East, published an open letter on the Pink News website, calling for the cancellation of East End Gay Pride, and was joined by Terry Stewart of the Hackney Community Engagement Board, Denis Fernando of Unite Against Fascism, and the Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils.

In what was a much smaller event than Hackney Pride, participants walked to the Oxford House building on Hackney Road, where the mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, a British-Asian Muslim,[10] addressed the crowd: "I want you to be in no doubt I will fight to ensure there is respect for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture and rights in the same way I will for all communities.

"[11] Schaffauser co-authored Fières d'être putes (with Maîtresse Nikita, 2007), and wrote six articles on sex work for the Guardian in the first half of 2010, including a piece titled "Time for porn stars to self-organise".