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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Triumphs which are beg celebrated clu a recent change to the blood donatn policy, now allowg gay and bisexual men to donate blood whout subjectg them to a wag perd, and the 2013 Marriage Bill, which legalised same sex Pri London returns, here’s a look back at the first para and how the event has evolved over the did Pri London beg?
The first official Gay Pri Rally London was held event was lnched rponse to the Stonewall rts, which began the early hours of 28 June 1969 when a police raid took place at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village, New York. Followg the police raid, for three nights members of the LGBT+ muny fought back agast police btaly, a seri of rts that played a key role wh the wir gay liberatn years after the Stonewall uprisg, London Pri was born, takg place on Saturday 1 July 1972.
While the Stonewall rts that spired Pri London took place New York, members of the LGBT+ muny London also faced discrimatory behavur and Gay Pri Week 1978, a leaflet was distributed that referenced “creasg attacks on gay people over the past year”, the Mm of London the nth year of London’s Pri march, the rally was reloted to Hudrsfield Wt Yorkshire support of the gay muny the area, who claimed that they were beg harassed by Wt Yorkshire Police. A higher number of people took part the rally 1988 rponse to Sectn 28, a ernmental act tablished England, Stland and Wal that stated that a lol thory “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy” or “promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship” act was repealed Stland 2000 and the remar of the UK 2003.
PROUD: THE FIRST GAY PRI LONDON
London Pri 2019: Bt pictur by The InpenntShow all 60More than a after the Gay Pri Rally first took place, 1983 was renamed Lbian and Gay Pri, before beg renamed aga 1996 to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr 2004 up until 2012, the chary Pri London anised all the annual Pri celebratns the English London has sce been n by London LGBT+ Communy Pri, a muny tert hundreds of thoands of people attendg the para every year, Pri London is the only annual event for which London’s Oxford Street is did the most recent Pri London celebratns unfold? 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. To bat the visibily and nigratn of the queer muny, we cid to anise a ‘Gay Pri’ march, wh the theme of beg out and proud. The first ever Gay Pri march the UK took place London on 1 July 1972.
There were lots of extravagant stum and cheeky banners pokg fun at homophob like the moraly mpaigner Mary Whehoe. Unlike nowadays, there was no ftival or entertament Hy Park after the march – jt an impromptu Gay Day.
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
I won one of the gam and my prize was a long, ep kiss wh a geo French gay activist. In 1972 homosexualy was still viewed as an illns, lbian mothers had their kids taken off them by the urts, you uld be sacked om your job for beg LGBT and the police were at war wh the gay muny – wh thoands of gay and bisexual men arrted for nsentg, victimls behavur.
We also need to remd ourselv of the big difference between the first Gay Pri march and today’s Pri paras. Our radil, ialistic visn volved creatg a new sexual mocracy, whout homophobia and misogyny. In the nearly five s sce the first Gay Pri march, there has been a massive retreat om the imagatn and activism of the early LGBT liberatn pneers.