Yvonne van Dongen: Glitter Bomb

For the first time in living memory no one I knew was interested in the Pride Parade. It’s just up the road so attending didn’t require huge commitment but even locals I knew were meh.

My friend Peter said he’d seen enough drag queens on Segways to last a lifetime, my son groaned and said “that OTT rubbish”, a 20-something male friend actually laughed at the prospect that I might think he was interested.