What Is the History of UK Gay Pri?

Contents:

• GAY LIBERATN FRONT UK
• THE ARE THE RADIL ROOTS OF BRISH GAY PRI
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT ACTIVISTS ON THE FIRST UK PRI
• THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
• OUT AND PROUD - THE LEGACY OF THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT
• HOW THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT IS WEAPONISG GAY LIBERATN

GAY LIBERATN FRONT UK

WHEN: Wednday, 5th October, 6pm – 8pm WHERE: Queer Circle, BUILDING 4, 3 BARTON YARD, SOAMES WALK, DESIGN DISTRICT, SE10 0BN WHAT: Gay Liberatn Front and Queer Night Pri ve you to our next strategic actn planng meetg.

THE ARE THE RADIL ROOTS OF BRISH GAY PRI

Young and old, the Gay Liberatn Front has a 51 year rerd sce 1970 of non-vlent and often hilar street actns agast the vlence of ernments.

21 – Lnch of ‘Revolutnary People’s Constutnal Conventn’ LIVE-STREAMED FROM SPITALFIELDS ON Saturday/Sunday 15/16 May 2021 at The Bishopsgate Instute, a ticketed ee event arranged by the GAY LIBERATION FRONT““We are the Gay Liberatn Front, ….

GAY LIBERATN FRONT ACTIVISTS ON THE FIRST UK PRI

#lgbtqhistory#lgbtlondon#queerlondon and another vio wh Members of the Gay Liberatn Front took to the streets today …. The Gay Liberatn Front and iends v you to ‘Fuck Off This is My Culture 6 – 50 Years of Pri Special’ on Saturday June 25th 2022 celebratn of Gee Michael and everyone standg up for sexual eedom everywhere. July 1st 2022 is the 50th anniversary of the first Pri anised and led by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) and July 2nd is the 50th anniversary ‘Pri’ march anised by ‘Pri London’ are we gonna do about ?

THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

Amazg archivg work by the one and only Stef Dickers, Rachel Smh and all at the Bishopsgate Instute see all on the Bishopsgate Instute webse here Come Together: Gay Liberatn Front About this Archive The newspaper of the Gay Liberatn Front, Come Together, was formed by the GLF’s Media Workshop 1970. In the early 1970s, Andrew was part of the short-lived, but massively fluential, Gay Liberatn Front.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO

The GLF were the te begng of the morn anised LGBTQ+ rights movement – and, among other thgs, they threw the world's first gay Pri march. Over four days late June, 1969, patrons of the Stonewall gay bar downtown New York fought back agast csant police harassment – largely led by black and Latx drag queens. Two Brish activists, Aubrey Walter and Bob Mellor, hopped on a plane and arrived jt time to attend the Black Panther's Revolutnary Peopl' Conventn – where, for the first time, an vatn was extend to legatns om the movements for women's and gay rights.

A month later they were back home foundg the London branch of the GLF a basement of the London School of Lumsn is passnate that this history not be fotten: "Our Gay Liberatn starts the Black Panther movement.

OUT AND PROUD - THE LEGACY OF THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT

" This is echoed by Stuart Feather, another of the early Brish GLF activists: "We lled ourselv the Gay Liberatn Front, like you'd read about a Front for the liberatn of Palte, or Wtern Sahara.

Stuart Feather rells: "When my fay found out I was gay, my father beat me up and I had to leave home.

HOW THE ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT IS WEAPONISG GAY LIBERATN

"Another origal GLF activist, Ted Brown, remembers: "In 1969 I was a 19-year-old gay black man, livg wh my foster parents. So, walkg to that first GLF meetg – jt seeg hundreds of gay people together, whout shame, jt beg openly gay – that was as astonishg as walkg on the surface of the moon.