Lawyers contribute to carnival atmosphere at London Pride march buoyed by US Supreme Court backing of gay marriage
Members of the legal profession were out in force on Saturday at Pride in London, the annual Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) parade through the capital.
Walking behind a huge purple banner emblazoned with scales of justice, the crowd of solicitors and barristers wowed the crowd with that old lawyer favourite, the horsehair wig, while seeking to draw attention to the #LegalHeroes campaign being run to highlight key contributions to gay rights.
Justice for all. Celebrating Pride. @LSHumanRights @TheLawSociety pic.twitter.com/NnXMXMsdRs
— Catherine Dixon (@catdixon100) June 27, 2015
Among the 18 “legal heroes” named on the Law Society’s website is No5 barrister S Chelvan, a champion of LGBTI rights among asylum seekers and migrants, who was in attendance at the parade.
Mark and I at the startof @LondonLGBTPride paradeLegalPride #legalheroes @thebarcouncil @TheLawSociety @CILExLawyers pic.twitter.com/Cy3WxnAcK3
— S Chelvan (@S_Chelvan) June 27, 2015
Other participants included Bar Council chair Alistair MacDonald QC, Law Society chief executive Catherine Dixon and former Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff (pictured below, from left to right).
Legal Cheek caught up with the lawyers as they headed noisily down Regent Street at a jubilant procession buoyed by Friday’s decision of the US Supreme Court to legalise gay marriage across all states.
And to crown the day, this correspondent even managed to get a #LegalHeroes sticker for his Lord Denning T-shirt — courtesy of Bircham Dyson Bell solicitor Kevin Poulter.
Read about the Law Society’s LGBTI legal heroes here.