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JSE EISENBERG TELLS OFF ANTI-GAY PROTTERS AT LONDON PRI PARA
This annual gay pri para and ftival champns LGBTQ+ inti wh a posive, gltery rnival vibe across central London. Here’s all the key you need on this year's para and parti Trafalgar Square and beyond. * gay parade london 2016 *
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Pri celebrat lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people and is s 43rd yearTens of thoands of people have joed the Pri para through central annual celebratory march, now s 43rd year, stopped for a mute to remember the victims shot ad a gay nightclub para got unr way the Wt End wh an creased visible police prence. Image source, RtersImage ptn, The para stood still to remember the victims of Orlando club shootgThe march tak place weeks after a gunman shot ad 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando Florida.
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Mlims joed the march to send a msage agast homophobia and hateThe Metropolan Police said will mount a visible police prence to provi reassurance to those takg part. Not proud of beg out": Voic om Pri paraImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Members of the armed forc personnel joed Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The rabow flag loured the streets of LondonOrganisers expect that more people will attend the event this year to show support for the Lbian Gay Bisexual and Transgenr source, UK Parliament/JESSICA TAYLORImage ptn, A Rabow flag has been flyg om Portcullis HoeImage source, RtersImage ptn, The EU referendum and Brex vote also ma s prence felt as London had voted to remaGay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell, who was volved anisg the first Pri, said people mt une agast hate and this year both gay and straight Mlims will jo the para a show of said: "In the wake of the horrific mass murr of LGBT people by an Islamist gunman Orlando, we are highlightg the need for dialogue, uny and solidary between the Mlim and LGBT muni - to oppose all hate.
Image source, EPAImage ptn, The 2017 theme is 'Love Happens Here'More than 26, 000 people have joed the Pri para through central annual march, now s 45th year, marks 50 years sce homosexualy was crimalised England and lourful para took a 1. Image source, EPAImage ptn, The march, now s 45th year, marks 50 years sce homosexualy was crimalised England and WalImage source, PAImage ptn, Tens of thoands of people have turned out for the celebratnImage source, EPAImage ptn, The Pri celebratn has been nng sce 24 JuneImage source, EPAImage ptn, There is expected to be one ln people attendanceHe said: "We've had a horrible last few weeks. "Media ptn, Thoands attend Pri para LondonA vio msage om Prime Mister Thera May was also played which she said the UK would challenge "ernments that crimalise homosexualy or practice vlence and discrimatn" agast LGBT add: "Here at home too, we mt ntue to stand up for te equaly and rpect for everyone, right across our Uned Kgdom.
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Lord Fowler, Speaker of the Hoe of Lords, said: "Homosexualy is still illegal over 70 untri around the world, cludg many the Commonwealth. They joed flag bearers reprentg untri around the world, cludg those where is still illegal to be Met said had been workg closely wh Pri London and a tailed policg plan was source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The Pri flag fli om Somerset HoeImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Sadiq Khan said the para was an "antidote to sorrow"Image source, EPAImage ptn, A drag artist drsed as the Queen pos for a pictureImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Pri celebrat lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) peopleImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A number of tube statns have joed the celebratnThe force add: "We know that recent events London and Manchter will e people to worry. Image source, Peter Tatchell / Jamie GarderImage ptn, The first Lbian and Gay Pri march central London, on 1 July 1972, was anised by the Gay Liberatn FrontFifty years ago about 2, 000 people took part London's first official Lbian and Gay Pri event, as part of a prott agast how the police treated that muny.
Policg PriImage source, Peter Tatchell / Jamie GarderImage ptn, The first Lbian and Gay Pri march through central LondonImage source, Peter Tatchell / Jamie GarderImage ptn, Pri protters gathered Trafalgar Square on 1 July 1972The first Lbian and Gay Pri event the UK, on 1 July 1972 was a relatively small affair, although s roots are a gatherg a few away Highbury Fields held November tumn some 150 members of the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) held a torchlight vigil to prott agast police harassment of gay people.
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The GLF march of the early 1970s were staged prott at police harassment of gay peopleImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Lbians played a key and very visible role GLF march throughout the 1970s and 80sPeople like Andrew Lumsn, who attend the first London Pri march 1972, saw those events as the begng of a huge change. The feelg was that we had broken down a barrier that was put ont of that said, 'you mt not be out, you mt not be seen', " he ptn, Stuart Feather and Andrew Lumsn took part the first London Pri march 50 years agoMr Lumsn, who will be marchg alongsi some of the origal Gay Liberatn Front members this year, says was also about fyg the anti-gay tablishment. Policians at PriImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Prime Mister Boris Johnson, then London mayor, at the 2008 Pri marchWhile the first march may have been held fiance of policians, 's somewhat different the days - every directly elected London mayor has attend Pri at some the 1980s, Pri foced on the Aids crisis and the troductn of Sectn 28, which saw the Conservative ernment of the day ban the promotn of homosexual liftyl schools.