Why do we celebrate Gay Pri Month and why do still matter? - The Diversy Tst

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• UKRAE HOLDS LARGT GAY PRI EVENT TO DATE KIEV
• THE ARE THE RADIL ROOTS OF BRISH GAY PRI
• 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?

UKRAE HOLDS LARGT GAY PRI EVENT TO DATE KIEV

Revellers wearg face pat, glter, jewels and sequs joed the celebratns as Pri returned for the first time sce the Covid-19 event, hailed as the most clive history, clud performanc om Ava Max and Emeli para paid homage to the origal 1972 march, anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), and saw revellers pass signifint s om the UK's LGBTQ+ led Park Lane ahead of the ma march through the pal, which was led by GLF activists holdg plards readg "I was there 1972".

THE ARE THE RADIL ROOTS OF BRISH GAY PRI

"Image source, EPAImage ptn, Thoands gathered Trafalgar Square to celebrateImage source, RtersImage ptn, The para paid homage to the 1972 march, passg signifint s om the UK's first LGBTQ+ movementIn Trafalgar Square, Dame Kelly Holm told the crowd she would "never live behd that curta aga" after g out as gay last month.

"For 34 years I have never been able to say those words until two weeks ago, due to the fear of judgement and retributn that was stilled me sce the age of 18 bee the laws the ary and beg the public eye, " the Olympic champn source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Dame Kelly, 52, shared her relief at g out as gay last monthAt the ont of the para, the star of Netflix g-of-age drama Heartstopper, Joe Locke, said was an honour to be celebratg "beg queer when the world might not be so acceptg". "I'm proud to be a gay man, " he ptn, London Pri at 50: Veteran meets para first-timerImage source, PA MediaImage ptn, Pri volunteers add rabow face pat to each other's fac ahead of the Pri London paraLoud, proud and backBy Lren Moss, LGBT and inty rrponnt, at the paraIn 2022 Pri is most fely a were dancg the street, throwg sweets, blowg whistl and havg a great enormo rabow flag billowed out behd the Gay Liberatn Front, who anised the first prott 's no doubt that 's worlds away om what was when started wh a few hundred people riskg arrt for kissg each other the 're followed by thoands of people who want to make their voic heard at the place where Pri was born 50 years source, Getty ImagImage ptn, More than 600 LGBTQ+ muny groups joed the marchImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Revellers wore face pat, glter, jewels and sequsMohammed Nazir, 24, om Banglash, om mpaign group Rabows Across Borrs, said he wanted to dite this year's pri to those who were still forced to hi their sexualy.

Organisers said reflected the "very real ncerns" of the LGBTQ+ muny - particular over the force's handlg of four murrs of gay men by serial killer Stephen force acknowledged ncerns om the LGBTQ+ muny the wake of quts which nclud police failgs "probably" ntributed to the aths of the young wasn't jt London that marked Pri on Shetland held their first Pri ftival, the most northerly celebratn of s kd the UK, plete wh burlque dancers, a samba band and people drsed as Vikgs.

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?

Image source, Peter Tatchell / Jamie GarderImage ptn, The first Lbian and Gay Pri march central London, on 1 July 1972, was anised by the Gay Liberatn FrontFifty years ago about 2, 000 people took part London's first official Lbian and Gay Pri event, as part of a prott agast how the police treated that muny. Policg PriImage source, Peter Tatchell / Jamie GarderImage ptn, The first Lbian and Gay Pri march through central LondonImage source, Peter Tatchell / Jamie GarderImage ptn, Pri protters gathered Trafalgar Square on 1 July 1972The first Lbian and Gay Pri event the UK, on 1 July 1972 was a relatively small affair, although s roots are a gatherg a few away Highbury Fields held November tumn some 150 members of the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) held a torchlight vigil to prott agast police harassment of gay people.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The GLF march of the early 1970s were staged prott at police harassment of gay peopleImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Lbians played a key and very visible role GLF march throughout the 1970s and 80sPeople like Andrew Lumsn, who attend the first London Pri march 1972, saw those events as the begng of a huge change. The feelg was that we had broken down a barrier that was put ont of that said, 'you mt not be out, you mt not be seen', " he ptn, Stuart Feather and Andrew Lumsn took part the first London Pri march 50 years agoMr Lumsn, who will be marchg alongsi some of the origal Gay Liberatn Front members this year, says was also about fyg the anti-gay tablishment. Policians at PriImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Prime Mister Boris Johnson, then London mayor, at the 2008 Pri marchWhile the first march may have been held fiance of policians, 's somewhat different the days - every directly elected London mayor has attend Pri at some the 1980s, Pri foced on the Aids crisis and the troductn of Sectn 28, which saw the Conservative ernment of the day ban the promotn of homosexual liftyl schools.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, UK Black Pri 2019 - a celebratn of LGBTQ+ people of lourOthers have been dismayed at events that have taken place at Pri, cludg when members of the lbian and femist group Get The L Out gathered at the start of the para actns of the protters - scribed at the time as bigoted by Pri London - reflected, though, that there are those who wish to separate the "LGB" om the "T", argug that transgenr rights n impge on the rights of gay people, pecially s of solidary, 's fair to say there is an creasg number of people who feel the event has lost s way - that the culture around the Pri march and the rabow flag don't reprent them. Last year, some of the origal Gay Liberatn Front protters - cludg human rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell - held a Reclaim Pri to the origal route of the 1972 march, they lled for the return to the origal pot of Pri, as a celebratn of and a prott support of LGBTQ+ rights, whout the morn-day rporate sponsorship and mercialism.