This Pride Month there are lots of events to get involved in across Wandsworth, celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community.
Whether you're looking for a street party, exhibition or quiet space to create and reflect, there are lots of events happening for Pride 2026 across the borough.
Queer Wandsworth is an outdoor exhibition, presented across a series of vibrant cube installations, sharing powerful stories of LGBTQ+ life in Wandsworth, past and present. Located on the newly pedestrianised Totterdown Street, behind Tooting Market, it invites visitors to explore at their own pace, day or night. Discover both well-known landmarks and hidden histories, and learn how local people and places have played an important role in shaping queer history in the UK.Through artwork, archival material and community voices, Queer Wandsworth celebrates resilience, creativity and pride. This project is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
There is also the opportunity to do a self-guided walk in the footsteps of Wandsworth’s queer history on the Queer Wandsworth: Heritage Trail where you can explore significant locations around the borough.
Alternatively, you could join a guided tour like the Queer Putney walk to learn about art and activism in the area or the Queer Battersea walk exploring protest and performance.
The Queer Wandsworth project has been a chance to uncover and share stories that have often been overlooked in more traditional histories of the borough. Over the past year, through research, community consultation and archival work, we’ve built up a picture of a rich and wide-ranging queer history. From nightlife, performance and activism to everyday relationships, social spaces and local lives. The walks and exhibition are about bringing those stories into public view and showing that LGBTQ+ history is not something separate from Wandsworth’s history, it is woven through it. I hope people come away with a new understanding of the borough and the many different people who have shaped it over time. — Nick Collinson (The Urban Rambler), Queer Wandsworth Researcher and Curator.
There will also be a series of events in libraries around the borough, including crafts, author events and story times.
Join a creative writing workshop with Jack Strange at Balham Library and Southfields Library, or a talk from The Light of Day author Christopher Stephens.
And on Saturday 20 June Battersea Park will host Wandsworth Family Pride, featuring a series of free live performance as part of the Summer in Battersea Park festival. There's also PRIDESTRAVAGANZA, a community-led Pride celebration for Tooting and Furzedown, featuring queer performers, a DJ and entertainment.
The council offers year-round support to LGBTQ+ residents, including signposting sources of support for young people.
