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RI TO LONDON'S GAY PAST FOR LGBT HISTORY MONTH
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Our missn is to brg cyclists together om across the UK’s LGBT and gay cyclg clubs, who we often work llaboratn are a natnal group, wh a foc on ridg our Natnal Parks and Areas of Outstandg Natural Bety. The first, an entirely flat route, foced on s Central London and the send, wh a sharp hill climb to the former home of Dty Sprgfield, went wt to Kensgton, Chelsea and Earl's Court, the centr of London gay life for much of the past century.
Notg that gay history has generally been a worldwi tale of persecutn, discrimatn and jtice, we began by markg the impact of Henry VIII’s Buggery Act of 1533, the first secular legislatn England on sexual moraly. The first ri moved on to the Cy of Quebec, the olst ntually gay public hoe the UK, and om there, explored a number of former venu where gay men - and ls often women - met and socialised over the centuri.
One unexpected disvery was that London 1720 had more gay venu than the 1950s, when the then Conservative home secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, sought to wipe out what he lled a “plague over England” g a batn of police entrapment and rmers. The Cy of Quebec is the olst ntually gay public hoe the UK. The mpaign for homosexual rights and reform.
GAY CYCLG GROUPS IN THE UK
A send theme of this ri was the mpaign for homosexual rights and toleratn by 19th century ratnalists, Bloomsbury tellectuals and trial survivors, like the journalist Peter Wilblood, thor of the 1955 memoir 'Agast the Law'. The ri nclud Parliament Square, markg the law reform of 1967, and Hy Park where the first Gay Pri march was held July 1972.
The ntributn of gay celebri on Brish culture. The send ri took place a month later, and went om Marble Arch to the near suburbs of Wt London and was very different tone - lookg more at personali and the liv of gay men and women who ntributed to Brish cultural life over the past two centuri.
The ri also vised s of longer - and more recently vanished - gay venu that thrived when Chelsea was a trendy and bohemian quarter full of artists, stunts and youth fashn. We then cycled on to Earl's Court, the centre of London gay life the 1970s and 1980s, where the Coleherne, Bromptons, the Catabs and the Copabana domated the scene until gay life moved to Soho and Vxhall the 1990s, later to go onle even before ronavis. This year, we started wh showg support for the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Sunday 17 May by distributg ee rabow lac to some 100+ of our volunteers.