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PROUD: THE FIRST GAY PRI LONDON
It was the first Gay Pri a cy the UK and the neart Saturday to the Stonewall date of 28 June.
The Gay Liberatn Front at Trafalgar Square, early 1970s.
Numero gay rights anisatns took part, cludg the GLF and CHE, and 200 - 500 people turned up, but was heavily policed. The march was part of a week-long monstratns and ‘Gay Ins’ for London Pri.
PARADE 1972 FIRST GAY PRI PARA SAN FRANCIS
First Gay Pri, 1972. Sectns of the women’s movement thought the ncerns were domated by gay men. This float om an early Gay Pri march shows the batn of mic and marchg that took place the early 1970s.
Float an Early Gay Pri March. Words like gay (and more recently queer) were reclaimed by activists om beg homophobic sults and celebrated.
Slogans like ‘Glad to be Gay’ and ‘Gay is good’ n be seen on the plards rried early Pri march. London Gay Pri, 1974. It was anised by members of the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) and was held rponse to the Stonewall Rts, where police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village New York on June 28, 1969.