06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Heartstopper's Sebastian Croft: ‘Why Pride mattered more than ever in 2025'
From that moment, it has become an annual tradition to see them tackle Pride together — this year, to the delight of their millions of combined followers, fans could find them in a specific place: selling merch out of a converted horse trailer on Soho's Greek Street. You couldn't miss it, as artist Jack Taylor Lovatt had scrawled, in his signature lettering, the words 'Queer Past' across it. The T-shirts, caps and jumpers they are selling were long set to be the status symbols of London Pride 2025 (they've already been spotted on Troye Sivan, David Tennant and Jessie Ware) and bear the same slogan; part of a new capsule collection from Croft's charity Queer Was Always Here, which he founded with the Canadian actor Connor Jessup, 31, in 2022. It began with a one-off T-shirt featuring two kissing dinosaurs, named Dylan and Derek, and was sold in partnership with Choose Love, the 2015-founded charity formerly known as Help Refugees.
