The history of Gay Pri at Hy Park, London - Hy Park - The Royal Parks

Contents:

• PROUD: THE FIRST GAY PRI LONDON
• GAY PRI PARA, LONDON, JULY 1972
• THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI AT HY PARK, LONDON
• MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

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. 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.

GAY PRI PARA, LONDON, JULY 1972

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. The event sparked a global gay rights movement and later fluenced the UK's first Pri Para three years later.

THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI AT HY PARK, LONDON

Along wh the GLF, gay rights activist and human rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell helped anise the first Pri Para Hy Park, which was held on the neart Saturday to the Stonewall Rts.

Our chant of 'gay is good' challenged the orthodoxy that gay was bad, mad and sad. He add that though felt extremely sry to lnch a Pri at the time, he was proud to be part of an event that was mandg gay liberatn.

Marchers, banners and police at the first official gay Pri march London, July 1, 1972. Bated Sectn 28, the notor 1988 mandate agast the public promotn and teachg of homosexualy. Yet galvanized the gay-rights movement before Stland repealed 2000, and the rt of the U.

MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS

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Way back the early 1970s, I was a member of the newly-formed Gay Liberatn Front. It was Bra’s first direct actn human rights movement of openly lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. To bat the visibily and nigratn of the queer muny, we cid to anise a ‘Gay Pri’ march, wh the theme of beg out and proud.

The first ever Gay Pri march the UK took place London on 1 July 1972. There were lots of extravagant stum and cheeky banners pokg fun at homophob like the moraly mpaigner Mary Whehoe. Unlike nowadays, there was no ftival or entertament Hy Park after the march – jt an impromptu Gay Day.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

I won one of the gam and my prize was a long, ep kiss wh a geo French gay activist. In 1972 homosexualy was still viewed as an illns, lbian mothers had their kids taken off them by the urts, you uld be sacked om your job for beg LGBT and the police were at war wh the gay muny – wh thoands of gay and bisexual men arrted for nsentg, victimls behavur. We also need to remd ourselv of the big difference between the first Gay Pri march and today’s Pri paras.

Our radil, ialistic visn volved creatg a new sexual mocracy, whout homophobia and misogyny. In the nearly five s sce the first Gay Pri march, there has been a massive retreat om the imagatn and activism of the early LGBT liberatn pneers. In ntrast, the first Gay Prirs saw the fay as “a patriarchal prison that enslav women, gays and children” and sought to transform .