‘We kept gettg people sayg: exce me, you don’t look gay’ – how Black people fought for a space at Pri | Pri | The Guardian

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• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• ‘WE KEPT GETTG PEOPLE SAYG: EXCE ME, YOU DON’T LOOK GAY’ – HOW BLACK PEOPLE FOUGHT FOR A SPACE AT PRI
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• SIGN UP NOW! DONATE NOW! SE NAVIGATN HOMEABOUT ABOUT USMEET THE TEAM IMPACT REPORTSTTIMONIALSWORK WITH USTRAG ACCSIBLE INFORMATN STANDARDSACHIEVG CULTURAL COMPETENCEAUTISM & NRODIVERSY THE WORKPLACEBLACK, ASIAN AND MORY ETHNIC TALENT AND LEARSHIP DEVELOPMENTBUILDG RILIENCE AGAST ADVERSYDIGAL TRAG & EVENTSDISABILY AWARENS TRAG: INCLN AND EQUALYDIVERSY PRACTICE – WORKG WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANS (LGBT) COMMUNIDIVERSY MENOPSEEQUALY, DIVERSY, EQUY AND INCLNGENR AWARENSIT’S ABOUT RACE – CHALLENGG RACIAL BIAS AND RACISM PRACTICEIT’S ABOUT RACE 2IT’S ABOUT RACE 3MANAGG AND MIGATG BIAS THE WORKPLACEMENOPSE AWARENS AT WORKMENOPSE EXPERTS TRAGMEN’S MENTAL HEALTHMENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEG THE WORKPLACEPRACTICE INCLIVYRACE AND GENRSAFEGUARDG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLESPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT!SPORTG MDSET TO BUILD EFFECTIVE TEAMSTRANSGENR AWARENS TRAGUNNSC BIASUNRSTANDG DOMTIC VLENCE AND ABETTIMONIALSTRAG FAQSSERVIC ACCSIBILY AUDAUDSCARE SERVICDOMTIC VLENCE AND ABE TRAG AND CONSULTANCYFILMMAKGHATE CRIME & DISCRIMATNREARCH & DEVELOPMENTREARCH REPORTSVOICE & INFLUENCEDIGAL EVENTS & TRAGWELLBEG SERVICYOUNG PEOPLE’S SERVICNEWS RECENT NEWSNEWSLETTERSBLOGSEVENTSPODSTCLIENTS & PARTNERSLKSCONTACTWHY DO WE CELEBRATE GAY PRI MONTH AND WHY DO STILL MATTER?

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP. Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.

Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology. A 53-year-old woman has been arrted, police said, after an activist told a crowd at a trans pri event to punch genr-cril people the the march London on July 8, an activist was filmed apparently llg for protters to “punch Terfs the face” Metropolan Police said a woman had now been arrted on spicn of cement to vlence Wtmster after a vio of the cint was wily shared on social is an abbreviatn for “trans-exclnary radil femist”, a term ed to scribe people who believe that a trans woman’s genr inty is the vio, the activist was apparently seen tellg a cheerg crowd: “I was gog to e here and be really fluffy, be really nice and be really lovely and queer and gay and lgh. Image source, North Country Off Grid/Youtube/via RtersImage ptn, Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry.

"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.

‘WE KEPT GETTG PEOPLE SAYG: EXCE ME, YOU DON’T LOOK GAY’ – HOW BLACK PEOPLE FOUGHT FOR A SPACE AT PRI

Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc.

Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.

SIGN UP NOW! DONATE NOW! SE NAVIGATN HOMEABOUT ABOUT USMEET THE TEAM IMPACT REPORTSTTIMONIALSWORK WITH USTRAG ACCSIBLE INFORMATN STANDARDSACHIEVG CULTURAL COMPETENCEAUTISM & NRODIVERSY THE WORKPLACEBLACK, ASIAN AND MORY ETHNIC TALENT AND LEARSHIP DEVELOPMENTBUILDG RILIENCE AGAST ADVERSYDIGAL TRAG & EVENTSDISABILY AWARENS TRAG: INCLN AND EQUALYDIVERSY PRACTICE – WORKG WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANS (LGBT) COMMUNIDIVERSY MENOPSEEQUALY, DIVERSY, EQUY AND INCLNGENR AWARENSIT’S ABOUT RACE – CHALLENGG RACIAL BIAS AND RACISM PRACTICEIT’S ABOUT RACE 2IT’S ABOUT RACE 3MANAGG AND MIGATG BIAS THE WORKPLACEMENOPSE AWARENS AT WORKMENOPSE EXPERTS TRAGMEN’S MENTAL HEALTHMENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEG THE WORKPLACEPRACTICE INCLIVYRACE AND GENRSAFEGUARDG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLESPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT!SPORTG MDSET TO BUILD EFFECTIVE TEAMSTRANSGENR AWARENS TRAGUNNSC BIASUNRSTANDG DOMTIC VLENCE AND ABETTIMONIALSTRAG FAQSSERVIC ACCSIBILY AUDAUDSCARE SERVICDOMTIC VLENCE AND ABE TRAG AND CONSULTANCYFILMMAKGHATE CRIME & DISCRIMATNREARCH & DEVELOPMENTREARCH REPORTSVOICE & INFLUENCEDIGAL EVENTS & TRAGWELLBEG SERVICYOUNG PEOPLE’S SERVICNEWS RECENT NEWSNEWSLETTERSBLOGSEVENTSPODSTCLIENTS & PARTNERSLKSCONTACTWHY DO WE CELEBRATE GAY PRI MONTH AND WHY DO STILL MATTER?

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".

The first Gay Pri said: “novate, don’t assiate! 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.