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Lesbian Pride March – Saturday 5th July – Women Only (London)

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LCommunity · 16/06/2025 13:13

Hi all,

Just flagging this for any lesbian or bi women who’ve felt pushed out of Pride, or like something’s quietly disappeared.

We’re organising a lesbian and bisexual women-only march on Saturday 5th July in central London. It’s the same day as the main Pride event – but we’re not part of their route, and we’re not affiliated.

Time: 11.00 AM
Meeting point: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, Victoria Tower Gardens South (by Parliament)
Route: Walk to Parliament Square for a few short speeches, then back to the park for a picnic (or a nearby pub if it rains)

No men. No brands. No pressure.
Just women. In public. Without compromise.

It’s fully self-funded. All permits, insurance, stewards and first aid are covered.

RSVP now
Click “Attend” – even if you’re only thinking of coming. It helps us plan and it shows other women that this space is real.
New faces always welcome.
Meetup

If you’re coming alone or feeling nervous, join our entry WhatsApp group – we’ll look after you:
chat.whatsapp.com/FCsLSOzgV4C2yUGplyQr5m
(This is our public group – open to everyone before vetting. The private WhatsApp spaces are strictly filtered. Only verified, registered women are added after screening. To move into those, register and complete sex verification here: thelcommunity.com)

If you want to understand the story behind why this is needed:
thelcommunity.com/the-lie
https://thelcommunity.com/taking-back-pride/

They didn’t make space for us. So we did.

Lesbian Pride March – Saturday 5th July – Women Only (London)
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TheOtherRaven · 16/06/2025 16:36

ApocalipstickNow · 16/06/2025 15:32

Good luck everyone, you clearly knew a bunch of entitled tossers would be planning on turning up and harassing* you so stay safe.

*because they always do

I think we're seeing plainly that there will be those who will absolutely make sure of it.

Women getting away over here, come and abuse them! Never mind the entire Pride you've taken over and thrown homosexuals out of, and turned into a kink and depravity fest, women might escape and enjoy themselves without men and their enablers abusing them!

WallaceinAnderland · 16/06/2025 16:34

They take our spaces and then we surrender them and make our own, they want to take them too.

WithSilverBells · 16/06/2025 16:33

But keep living in fairy tale of majority.

Poll after poll shows that the fairy tale life is all yours. In fact, support for your position decreases year on year. Our position is supported by pluralities and majorities across the board. The more the public sees of transgenderism, the more it dislikes its implications.

yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51545-where-does-the-british-public-stand-on-transgender-rights-in-202425

Winterwonders24 · 16/06/2025 16:30

Christinapple · 16/06/2025 14:41

"what are you planning?"

Nothing. Just trying to establish if this event will be similar in nature to the KJK anti-trans hate rallies (as described by NZ media I believe).

If people are actually going to be using megaphones to screech hatred against trans people and anyone who supports them it would be (just a suggestion) more balanced if some LGBT supporters were there also to peacefully show there is also support for LGBT people. You know, free speech for everyone?

You are a nasty little bully,aren't you? Give it up: the vast majority who believe the importance of biological sex,and freedom to love whichever consenting adult you want,and wear what you want without it being able to change biology. You won't stop people saying it know. The emperor has no clothes

TheOtherRaven · 16/06/2025 16:28

Christinapple · 16/06/2025 14:41

"what are you planning?"

Nothing. Just trying to establish if this event will be similar in nature to the KJK anti-trans hate rallies (as described by NZ media I believe).

If people are actually going to be using megaphones to screech hatred against trans people and anyone who supports them it would be (just a suggestion) more balanced if some LGBT supporters were there also to peacefully show there is also support for LGBT people. You know, free speech for everyone?

When have you or anyone else EVER seen women who want their legal rights left alone 'screech hatred' at anyone at all? They are not the ones banging on windows, wearing balaclavas, chalking obscenities, holding up placards threatening to kill people and peeing everywhere. That would be transactivists.

You cannot allow women anything at all, can you? Not without rushing over to poison it as fast as your little fingers can type.

These women are not welcome at Pride due to people like you, and those you support, who feel that MRA and homophobia is the way to go and that the most important thing about 'lesbians' is forcing those women to pretend that the only good lesbian is a man. Those women, forbidden from having any groups or spaces of their own without men preying on them and dominating them and controlling them, have set up their own event, miles away, leaving everyone else in peace to go and be hateful and controlling about women and homosexuals in peace and you can't even let them do that!

Fgs, this is moving from anti-woman activism to actual homophobic harassment and persecution. Women must never, never be permitted peace, happiness or anything else unless they've submitted themselves unconditionally to the control and use of men. And in this case, actually agreed to pretend those men are gay women and validate by providing internal access to their bodies as opposed to the external undressing that is normally required. These are women that trans identified men and their supporters have ordered to 'learn to cope' with unwanted straight sex because men matter and homosexual women only exist in their usefulness as sex toys.

It's past time to be honest about exactly what 'hate' is, what it looks like, and where it's coming from.

Pleasantsort · 16/06/2025 16:27

TheOtherRaven · 16/06/2025 16:23

For fuck's sake.

The first bloody reply. Have yet to read the thread but for crying out loud Chris, get a grip. Lesbians are a diverse bunch of women, and they are not all about your precious bloody men .

Women actually have lives too.

I know ! The entitlement. Just leave the lesbians and bisexual women alone, Chris. Ffs. Counterprotests...
Honestly listen to yourself.

nothingcomestonothing · 16/06/2025 16:25

soupyspoon · 16/06/2025 16:09

I think this is a really good analogy actually

Its like the Apple Growers association holding a celebration of UK apples and the Potato Growers association getting the arsehole because they're not included

Its not about you potatoes!!!

Can 'it's not about you potatoes!!!' just be the reply to all TRA posts now please?

TheOtherRaven · 16/06/2025 16:23

Christinapple · 16/06/2025 13:46

Is this a gender critical event?

For fuck's sake.

The first bloody reply. Have yet to read the thread but for crying out loud Chris, get a grip. Lesbians are a diverse bunch of women, and they are not all about your precious bloody men .

Women actually have lives too.

WallaceinAnderland · 16/06/2025 16:20

Actually, vegetarian is probably more relevant, considering the picnic options.

Just saying.

RedToothBrush · 16/06/2025 16:17

A march for lesbians and bi-sexual women is open to lesbians, bi-sexual women and transmen who are attracted to females.

This is therefore trans inclusive. Just not male inclusive because sexual attraction of females to females is the point.

HTH.

soupyspoon · 16/06/2025 16:09

WallaceinAnderland · 16/06/2025 15:51

Is this a gender critical event is about as relevant asking is this a vegetarian event.

I think this is a really good analogy actually

Its like the Apple Growers association holding a celebration of UK apples and the Potato Growers association getting the arsehole because they're not included

Its not about you potatoes!!!

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 16/06/2025 16:08

I’m not included because I’m a straight woman, and thus far have managed not to lose my shit and threaten to turn up and shout at some Lesbians and Bisexual women having a picnic.

Amazing. I think I’m going to be able to maintain this level of self control right up until after the event

hope you have a lot of fun. It’s great to see women out and proud and organising

soupyspoon · 16/06/2025 16:07

Waitingfordoggo · 16/06/2025 16:01

@AidaP, you can’t have a ‘counter protest’ against something that isn’t a protest. It’s a picnic. So what you are proposing is a protest, not a counter-protest. If you are planning a protest, you had better make sure you’re clear on what it is you are protesting:

Lesbians gathering for picnics.

The only possible reasons to protest such a thing are homophobia and misogyny.

Counter picnic?

Different coloured blankets and different flavoured quiche?

Kingsleadhat · 16/06/2025 16:05

Wishing you a wonderful, peaceful pride. Xx

BackToLurk · 16/06/2025 16:03

If @Christinapple and @AidaP wanted to demonstrate that the 'trans rights don't affect what anyone else does' stuff was a load of bollocks, I'm not sure they could have done it better. Well done chaps.

Waitingfordoggo · 16/06/2025 16:01

@AidaP, you can’t have a ‘counter protest’ against something that isn’t a protest. It’s a picnic. So what you are proposing is a protest, not a counter-protest. If you are planning a protest, you had better make sure you’re clear on what it is you are protesting:

Lesbians gathering for picnics.

The only possible reasons to protest such a thing are homophobia and misogyny.

WandaSiri · 16/06/2025 16:01

Waitingfordoggo · 16/06/2025 15:40

@AidaP is reminding me of all the misogynists I saw commenting on a FB article this morning. They were really angry that some vulnerable and disadvantaged women are going to be getting a women-only housing block somewhere in West London. The comment section was a binfire of ‘What about the Menz?’ ‘This is discrimination!’ etc.

There are a significant number of men who will not ever accept women having things for themselves. It was a depressing moment when I realised most of these men are never going to change.

All we can do is endeavour to raise our sons to be better men than these spiteful, rage-filled misogynists.

Ironically, men are not excluded. Anyone identifying as a woman, apparently. Unlawful discrimination but in practice any man could claim to identify and be eligible.

Feelingleftoutagain · 16/06/2025 16:00

I am beginning to think that transwomen have FOMO, it's crazy, that they will protest about women. To all the people who are attending have fun, unfortunately as a straight woman I can't

ApocalipstickNow · 16/06/2025 16:00

It literally says it in the opening post.

Madcatdudette · 16/06/2025 15:59

ApocalipstickNow · 16/06/2025 15:54

It says it’s women only so bisexual men are not invited.

Whether there will be a counter protest from then seems to be unknown.

It appears that me saying it’s for lesbians and possibly bi males is not tolerated on MN 🤷‍♀️
Here’s me trying to be all ‘woke’ and get deleted 🤣

nothingcomestonothing · 16/06/2025 15:59

BackToLurk · 16/06/2025 15:55

"You won't know until you've tried it" like the 70s, but written in crayon on a repurposed Hello Fresh box

There's a meme for that:

Lesbian Pride March – Saturday 5th July – Women Only (London)
Teaandtoastserveddaily · 16/06/2025 15:58

BackToLurk · 16/06/2025 15:55

"You won't know until you've tried it" like the 70s, but written in crayon on a repurposed Hello Fresh box

'Lesbians just haven't tried the right dick yet'.

Sounds very much like homophobia to me.

nothingcomestonothing · 16/06/2025 15:57

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Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Try reading the OP again, as your reading comprehension seems a bit sub par.

It's not a protest.

It's nothing to do with transpeople (and that's the real issue, isn't it?)

Male supremacists are so predictable.

Teaandtoastserveddaily · 16/06/2025 15:57

Christinapple · 16/06/2025 14:41

"what are you planning?"

Nothing. Just trying to establish if this event will be similar in nature to the KJK anti-trans hate rallies (as described by NZ media I believe).

If people are actually going to be using megaphones to screech hatred against trans people and anyone who supports them it would be (just a suggestion) more balanced if some LGBT supporters were there also to peacefully show there is also support for LGBT people. You know, free speech for everyone?

Facts aren't hatred.

Men can't be lesbians. Lesbians shouldn't be coerced into accepting men into their spaces.

Trans people aren't victims and they have all the same rights everyone else has. What they don't have is the right to compell others to go along with their delusions.

Saying that isn't hatred.

Ratzon · 16/06/2025 15:57

Glad to see you can have your single sex event

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