This afternoon saw the first Hackney Pride march through the streets of East London. Leaving Hackney Town Hall at 2.30ish, the 2 mile long route down Mare Street and along Hackney Road, the parade was to highlight homophobic and transphobic crime and to protest the commercialism of other pride events. We passed friendly faces at The Joiners Arms and The George & Dragon, and some not quite so friendly faces in some of the local corner shops and bus stops. My rough [...]