The Army, Airforce and Navy marched in full dress uniform at the front of the London Pride parade today for the first time in history.
The Royal Navy has previously paraded in uniform at Pride, but until now the Army and Airforce's gays have only been allowed to wear t-shirts. They were cheered as they made their historic march through the capital's streets.
The parade was lead by London's new mayor, Boris Johnson who was taking part in the gay festival for the first time. He took a moment to tell Pink Paper that he was enjoying himself and describe the event as "fantastic".
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, had earlier met with a delegation from gay lobby group Stonewall and sent his well-wishes to Pride via Pink Paper.
Later Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats addressed the Pride rally in Trafalgar Square. He told Pink Paper he had been to Prides before as his brother is gay, but it's the first time he's attended to represent his party.
Speaking after the rally, he told us equality for gay men and women is within reach.
He said: "If you look at the speed in which we've made progress over recent years equality is achievable."
But equalities minister, Harriet Harman, was given a tougher time by the crowd at the rally and their was some boos which had to be silenced by Capital Radio's Lucio, host of the main stage.
Despite this, she was able to tell the rally that Labour would stand behind the lesbian and gay movement despite challenges from right-wing Conservatives in parliament.
She told Pink Paper: "You only have to look at votes that were in the House of Commons recently to see that there is still a big prejudiced rump of Conservative MPs which indicates the challenge ahead."
She warned our readers "to be afraid of false friends" by which she meant the Conservative Party.
Also there was Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen who is a patron of Pride London.
McKellen said that Pride was more pertinent than ever. He told us: "It wasn't a parade of shops trying to cash in on the pink pound. It was old lesbian and gay people in a bus, it was kids with their mothers and fathers, it was gay Jews, gay Christians and gay Muslims, gay servicemen. And when you come out and define yourself as gay, that in itself is political."
There will be a full round-up and lots more pictures from Pride in the next issue of Pink Paper, out on 10 July. We are proud to be official newspaper of the event again this year.