Gay Pri London 2018: Dat, key events and para tim for this year's celebratn's; Takg a trip to the pal for Gay Pri 2018? Here's everythg you need to know for a brilliant weekend. - Free Onle Library

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• GAY PRI LONDON 2018: DAT, KEY EVENTS AND PARA TIM FOR THIS YEAR'S CELEBRATN'S; TAKG A TRIP TO THE PAL FOR GAY PRI 2018? HERE'S EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR A BRILLIANT WEEKEND.
• PRI 2018: WHEN IS GAY PRI MONTH? WHAT IS PRI MONTH THE UK?
• GAY PRI 2018 UK DAT
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• GAY PRI LONDR

GAY PRI LONDON 2018: DAT, KEY EVENTS AND PARA TIM FOR THIS YEAR'S CELEBRATN'S; TAKG A TRIP TO THE PAL FOR GAY PRI 2018? HERE'S EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR A BRILLIANT WEEKEND.

Pri is an annual celebratn of the LGBT+ muny (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, qutng, tersex, non-bary, asexual polysexual, genrqueer and genr variant people) held London. Pri Month this year has shown rerd rabows throughout the cy and this weekend is set to be the biggt Pri London has 1972 the first UK Gay Pri rally was held London on the clost Saturday to the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Rts the US.

Trans people experience double the vlence and hate crime as other queer people, and people of lour have the add burn of beg forced to al wh racist and homophobic London ran a survey earlier this year that showed that straight people re more about animal rights than LGBTQ+, genr and racial equaly 2018.

PRI 2018: WHEN IS GAY PRI MONTH? WHAT IS PRI MONTH THE UK?

Ltle Gay Brother hold their first Pri party at Omeara London Bridge. London's bt drag clubs and nightsDuckie’s Gay Shame returns to The Royal Vxhall Tavern and tak over the nearby railway arch. Puttg “the gay gaelic”, Irish party llective Sodom & Begorrah take over The Glory Haggerston, wh drag queens and baret.

A way up Kgsland High Street, Dalston Superstore prents a special Pri edn of Homodrop wh mic om Earthboogie and ultraDisko, and the Karaoke Hole celebrat wh a female takeover, plete wh all the girl power pop you’re after somethg different, Sttee hosts Naff Drag at the Hackney Showroom, an clive club night for the “outsts of homonormativy”. Photograph: Tristan Fewgs/Getty ImagLondon Pri, which anis the event, said allowg everyone who wanted to march to do so was “not practil at prent” and that if did so the para uld take ne takg part the para clu Mosaic LGBT Youth Centre; Xtend, a support group for gay parents; and Edute & Celebrate, which aims to make schools LGBT-iendly mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS this year, groups reprentg var parts of the health service are playg a proment part the Camps, -chair of Pri London, said: “The NHS is more important to the LGBT muny than ever.

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In the 1950s, a group led by Brish tnalist John Wolfenn was set up to addrs the way gay men were perceived by the law. The admistratn did not rpond posively, promptg more people to mpaign for the rights of gay people Bra. Even wh this posive change, there were still many laws place at the time, which meant that gay people did not have the same rights as heterosexuals.

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Gay Pri events are now monplace ci across the world, public celebratns of equal rights for people of all orientatns and sexuali planned by diverse anisatns. But they began as tensely polil events, challeng to a world where homosexual activi were persecuted. The first official Gay Pri Rally took place London on 1 July 1972, spired by the 1969 Stonewall Rts New York.

The were triggered by police harassment at the Stonewall Inn, a bar terg to New York’s gay, lbian, transgenr and crossdrsg muny. The bar’s patrons fought back, strikg a symbolic blow for gay liberatn.

The ntroversy of Sectn 28 1988, which stated a lol thory “shall not 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, ” led to numbers creasg on the march prott. In 1983 the march was renamed Lbian and Gay Pri, and the ‘90s beme more of a rnival event, wh large park gathergs and a fair after the march. For 1996, followg a vote by the members of the Pri Tst, the event was renamed Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri and beme the largt ee mic ftival Europe.

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Queer Tours of London, helmed by Dan Glass, was set up last year as a seri of walks aimed at sharg the plex history of LGBTQ+ activism the cy, to mark 50 years sce the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy Bra. Queer Tours was formed as a reactn to the mass closure of gay bars, muny centr and chari terg to the specific needs of the group, om HIV tn to mental health. Feature image: A monstratn by the Gay Liberatn Front Bow Street, London, 4 Febary 1971 (via Ptert).

A gay uple kiss Trafalgar Square after the annual Pri London Para 2015. And all of Soho’s gay bars and clubs get volved the actn, offerg drks als and (hopefully) floodg out onto the sunl streets. Much later, the actn also mov down to Vxhall too, where the gay clubs go on right through until the next morng.