The fall of Pride is upon us

The ghoulish, fleshy public spectacle that is Pride Month 2025 has little to say beyond exhibitionism and hedonism. It certainly has nothing to say about the UK Supreme Court ruling in April that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex – a ruling that upheld the lesbian and gay right to single-sex associations. It has nothing to say about the Supreme Court justices observing that, had the judgment gone the other way, the protected characteristic of same-sex orientation would be rendered ‘meaningless’. It offers no praise or thanks to the lesbian interveners in the Supreme Court case for fighting for lesbian and gay rights. In fact, it is angry that they did so.

In a fit of ill temper, Pride UK has decreed that no political party may now participate this year, as punishment for their ‘crime’ of upholding the Supreme Court ruling. Irrelevance beckons and Pride 2025, high on gender ideology and committed to unreality, simply marches towards it.

Across the West, Pride groups and events are haemorrhaging corporate sponsors. In the UK, Plymouth Pride was almost cancelled owing to lack of funding. Lincoln, Southampton and Hereford are having the same troubles. In the US, Pride organisations’ shortfalls and deficits are now measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The post-Trump, post-Supreme Court reality check has spooked a corporate world once famous for covering any product in the corrupted rainbow of gender ideology. As the finances dry up and the parties get cancelled, it is becoming very clear that the parasite of gender ideology has all but sucked its host, the LGB movement, dry.

The Pride-supporting elites are poorly prepared for this historical moment. Pandered to for years, this movement knows only indulgence and uncritical support from governments, unions and corporates. It has never had to address the generational crime against humanity that is gender medicine. It has never had to address the fact that 80 to 90 per cent of the youth at the Tavistock gender-identity clinic were same-sex attracted – kids confused about their sexuality who were pushed towards medical ‘correction’. It has never had anything to say about Nancy Kelley, the former CEO of Stonewall, calling lesbians ‘sexual racists’ for not being attracted to transwomen, otherwise known as men.

Gay conversion therapy via chemical castration and brutal surgeries happened on the Pride leaders’ watch. At every point, they didn’t just abandon their posts, they cheered gender ideology on. The world is slowly waking up to all of this. In Denmark, a medical journal finally broke the taboo around the glaring overrepresentation of autistic-spectrum-disorder youth among those undergoing so-called treatment for gender dysphoria. And now, Australia is also erupting in alarm and disquiet at the wild west of gender medicine.

This year, Pride feels like a divisive and authoritarian anachronism. Far fewer companies are changing their logos. Stonewall, the gay-rights charity corrupted by gender ideology, rarely seems to speak in public at all now. When it does, it is reliably torn apart by both sides of the gender-ideology schism it did so much to create.

The world has changed. The BBC appears to have lifted its de facto ban on interviewing gender-critical women. The UK health secretary is considering banning cross-sex hormones for youths. Even the prime minister seems to have stopped saying that some women have penises. The elites who push Pride often accuse opponents of being on the ‘wrong side of history’, but in 2025 that allegation increasingly has the feel of an accidental confession.

We’ve come a long way from the original 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day march – the event that would become Pride. That was organised by two lesbians and two gay men, Linda Rhodes, Ellen Broidy, Craig Rodwell and Fred Sargeant. It was a cultural and political phenomenon that changed the world for the better.

Lesbians and gay men certainly made history back then. It falls to us today to destroy gender ideology once and for all. Now that would be something to be proud of.

Dennis Kavanagh is a director of Gay Men’s Network.