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Pride in London 2025: The Sights, Sounds, and Stories That Lit Up the City

This year, we were privileged and proud to be headline sponsors of the UK’s biggest pride event – Pride in London.

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Queer Social Escapes for Summer’s Final Stretch: Events, Parties, and Connections to Savour the Seas

Pride month came and went in June but we had an incredible time.

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Pridepay’s Pride in London Playlist: The Queer Anthems Taking Over Summer 2025

At Pridepay, we recently had the honour and privilege of being headline sponsors for Pride in London.

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The Non-Binary Budget Doesn’t Exist (And That’s the Point)

At Pridepay, as the first payment provider designed especially for the LGBTQIA+ community, we often write about the personal finance challenges and journeys queer people face.

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Threads of Pride: How the World Dresses Up for the LGBTQIA+ Revolution

As we’ve written about before, fashion is an extremely important part of LGBTQIA+ culture.

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Main character energy: How queer users made social media cinematic

Since the late noughties, social media has transformed everyday society – billions of people around the world flock to platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X and Meta to create digital lives and connect with one another.

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Your Fave Is Probably Queer: Celebrity Economics of Gay Icon Status

The latter command some of the most passionate followings the world of fame has ever known.

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Slay or Be Slain: How Drag Vocabulary Became the Internet’s Default Language

“It’s giving”, “Spill the tea”, “yas queen” – these are just some of the phrases and slang that have entered our daily online (and increasingly IRL) lexicon. Their use has exploded in popularity in recent years, with social media spreading their use rapidly.

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Pride & Pixels: How Queer Culture Took Over Your Explore Page

Social media is a bizarre place, and one that has taken over our daily lives. Before Instagram and X, before Facebook – even before Myspace – the notion of living digital lives online would’ve seemed odd.

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Queer Coded Cartoons: The Hidden Gays of Your Childhood

In season eight of the popular (and some would say, iconic) sitcom Will & Grace, the titular Will at one point talks about a friend of his who has just come out of the closet and the learning curve he has ahead of him: “This is a guy who, just 24 hours ago, thought Batman and Robin only fought crime

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Coming Out in the Digital Age: TikTok, Twitter, and Truth

There are few moments, or personal choices, as special and pivotal as coming out.

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Queer Eye on Fashion: How LGBTQIA+ Culture Shaped What We Wear

The LGBTQIA+ community has influences throughout our daily culture, and this is especially clear in fashion and how we dress. For LGBTQIA+ people, fashion isn’t just about the clothes we wear, but about expression, self-identity and pride.

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