Hy Park, London - GayOut 2023

Contents:

• THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI AT HY PARK, LONDON
• HIRE GAY WEDDG VENU HY PARK CORNER, WTMSTER

THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI AT HY PARK, LONDON

On 1st July 1972, a crowd of a few hundred people marched om Hy Park to Trafalgar Square, makg a stand for gay people landmark event LGBTQ+ history also forms an important chapter the story of Speakers’ Corner – an area of Hy Park that has been ed by prottors sce the mid sufagett and socialists to anti-war prottors and the Black Liv Matter movement, Speakers’ Corner has borne wns to many major social and polil movements Brish History. Stonewall and the Gay Liberatn FrontThe march was anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), a group first formed New York followg the famo Stonewall Rts of 1969. The took place followg a police raid on a gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

The LGBTQ+ muny there – sick of discrimatn and btaly at the hands of thori – cid to make a uprisg sparked a wave of prott and spired the formatn of new groups mandg equal rights for gay people.

Liberatn LondonIn the UK, the gay muny also faced prejudice, spe the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 which had partially crimalised homosexual acts. Interview wh a Pri veteran Simon Watney (left) at the first Pri march Hy Park Photograph urty of Simon Watney Prent at those early London meetgs of the GLF was Simon Watney – a veteran of the gay rights movement who also attend the first march om Hy Park was a stunt at Ssex Universy when he first got volved wh GLF. He ntu: ‘The sixti were only swgg for heterosexuals, not for lbians or gay men.

HIRE GAY WEDDG VENU HY PARK CORNER, WTMSTER

’ Some parts of the gay and lbian muni nmned the march, feelg that uld attract negative others, says Simon, was a ‘great big surpl overflow of energy, enthiasm and fun – partyg the streets, termed not to accept the stat quo.

‘There’s an visible history there’, he Legacy of the Gay Liberatn Front.