PRIDE Month 2025- Celebrating Our Icons

Pride has historically been both a time of celebration and protest.  

Since 1972, the UK has been holding Pride marches and events across the country celebrating the LGBT+ community, reflecting on the progress made and what has changed, but also how far there still is to go.

In their Hate Crime Report 2021, Galop highlighted that 3 in 5 LGBT+ people experienced anti-LGBT+ hate crime and only 1 in 5 were able to access any support.  

While domestic abuse disproportionately affects women, it exists across all parts of society and in every kind of intimate relationship. Responses to both survivors and perpetrators of domestic abuse in the LGBT+ community have been piecemeal and varied but work is continuing to be done. Respect’s work through the Drive Partnership’s National Systems Change programme is one of the ways we seek to address this.  

For Pride this year, we have been taking time together as colleagues to share and celebrate our individual LGBT+ icons and what they mean to us. We’ll be sharing some of these icons throughout the month on this page.