Hundreds of thousands of people expected to line the parade’s famous route, which last ran along the street in 2020 due to Covid
“Thinking back to that first parade, the joy we get now is realising how far we’ve come,” says Gardiner. “And the magical experience of seeing others march for the first time and what that moment means for them.”
“I was 27 and I had just started to get politicised and the violence that people unleashed against us for marching was a shock,” she recalls. “I got bashed and ended up in a cell. I then had my name published in the paper as one of the marchers and almost lost my job because of it.
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