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