The letter, sent on 18 October, includes nine demands for change with the goal of a successful 50th anniversary Pride event being delivered in 2022.
Peter Tatchell, an LGBTQ+ rights activist and director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, is one of the letter’s signatories who helped organise the UK’s first Pride march in 1972 and has marched in every Pride London parade since that year.
He said: “We are urging the Mayor to take action, given that Pride in London is no longer abiding by its contract and has lost the trust and confidence of much of the LGBTIQ community.
I hope the Mayor will meet us. “Our nine demands are a bid to fix the problems with Pride in London. They are a compilation of concerns expressed by a wide cross section of