Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969.
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HOW THE GAY PRI MOVEMENT STARTED
The new fac of LGBTQ+ London: picturHistory of Pri month and the Stonewall RtsJune is Pri Month bee cis wh the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall year, the early hours of June 28, eight police officers om the New York “Public Morals Divisn” raid the Stonewall Inn — a gay bar Greenwich Village, New York was nothg particularly exceptnal about this. Stonewall 50th anniversary - picturAnd over the past five s, they have bee a plard to articulate specific mands, propellg like gay marriage and AIDS the 1980s, “Gay Freedom” beme “Gay Pri” and, om 2009 to 2016, Print Obama officially clared June the month of LGBT Pri. The UK’s biggt Pri event, Pri London, will take place tomorrow to celebrate the LGBT+ muny and fight for 2022 Pri Para will volve more than 30, 000 participants, startg at Hy Park Corner and endg at Whehall marks the 50th anniversary of the first historic prott the UK, when “hundreds of queer people marched fiantly through the streets of London to mand that they be treated wh rpect by a society that loathed them”, said Pk some of the veterans who took to the streets that day have said the official morn celebratns are a far cry om the prott of was the talyst for the gay pri movement?
Disput rema “about how exactly the rts began, but is agreed that they were the rult of police raidg the bar for activy then nsired crimal”, said The clash ntued for more than three days, and herald “a more ant approach – a more ant era – which gay people mand rpect and equaly, rather than askg for , or tryg to te the heterosexual populatn”, Michael Bronski, a profsor women’s and genr studi at Harvard Universy, told “there has always been ristance by LGBTQ+ people agast opprsn – om the law, the police, ernment officials, church doctre”, add Bronski, thor of A Queer History of the Uned Stat. ”That first weekend of memoratns would eventually turn to a month-long seri of events and paras, all unr the banner of UK’s first Pri march was anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) and held on 1 July 1972.
He explaed that he tend each stripe to reprent an aspect of the gay inty: “hot pk for sex, red for life, orange for healg, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, digo for harmony and vlet for spir” do Pri mean today?
THE ARE THE RADIL ROOTS OF BRISH GAY PRI
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.
Photo: Ray Malone It is pursu of exactly that goal that the GLF – s after origally disband – has the 17th of June, 2019, almost exactly 50 years after Stonewall, a crowd of gay, lbian, trans, non-bary and queer activists gathered at Trafalgar Square, the se of the first London Pri march 1972. The origal GLF mands, drafted by John Chterman, were read out – and several morn on add, focg on Pri once aga fg self as a prott, ee and accsible to all, wh environmental Pollard spoke furly about how Pri London had llaborated wh the arms manufacturer BAE Systems, allowg the pany to "pkwash" s diversy brandg while makg billns sellg weapons to profoundly homophobic, misogynist and thorarian regim such as Sdi Lumsn stck a more nciliatory tone after the event, sistg that the volunteers at Pri London are all "betiful and sensive people who unrstand the need for change and are tryg – fs and starts – to work wh . Queer culture and imagatn are yet aga beg exploed, -opted and gentrified – and our ternalised homophobia and low self-teem are beg manipulated so that we ourselv are actually ma part of that procs.
GAY PRI
Amid the outfs and the parti and the joy, 's worth rememberg Andrew Lumsn, Stuart Feather, Nettie Pollard, Ted Brown, Peter Tatchell and all the origal Gay Liberatn Front – as well as all the others who gave so much. Image: Peter Tatchell on the London Gay Pri march 1973, wh the plard: "Homosexuals Are Revoltg" (revoltg, as makg a revolutn agast "straight supremacism") back the early 1970s, I was a member of the newly-formed Gay Liberatn Front (GLF).