Some people walkg at a pri para London, 1972. Their signs read Gay is good, gay is proud, gay liberatn ont.
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.
GAY PRI PARA, LONDON, JULY 1972
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.
THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI AT HY PARK, LONDON
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.
MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS
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.
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.
NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
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Yet galvanized the gay-rights movement before Stland repealed 2000, and the rt of the U. The Pope says God mak some people gay.