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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But there was also history as the para marked 50 years sce the Sexual Offenc Act 1967, which crimalised homosexualy England and signifince was not lost on Ward and her iends, even if they also had sympathy for the claims this week by Peter Tatchell that Pri had “morphed to a mercialised, burecratic and le-bound event”.
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Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/ShutterstockA celebratn that he had taken part sce s begngs 1972 had now bee modified, add the veteran gay-rights mpaigner, one of the latt reeratns of the claim that mercialisatn was stealg the event’s soul. “It’s about makg sure that we do this for people elsewhere the world who don’t have rights, ” said Ward, who told of beg kicked out of the Royal Navy for beg gay 10 years after jog as a teenager. A renciliatn wh the navy me when she marched wh them the Pri 200 members of the armed forc takg part this year was naval manr Sam Telove, 42, the -chair of Compass, the navy’s LGBT+ work, who joed when beg gay the armed forc was illegal.
But this year feels particularly poignant as we toast 50 years sce the crimalisatn of male homosexual acts private England and Wal.