Pri events 2022 mark 50 years sce gay rights mpaigners marched through Brighton 1972.
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Image source, Andy Garth/Arg Photographic ArchivImage ptn, Prevly-unseen photos of Brighton's first official gay Pri march 1973 were unveiled at an exhibn last yearGay rights pneers have relled the early days of the movement ahead of Brighton Pri returng this summer for the first time sce the panmic.
Organised by the Ssex Gay Liberatn Front (SGLF), a march 1972 saw a handful of people gather on Brighton seaont East -founr Mark Rowlands scribed walkg publicly hand--hand wh his boyiend at the march as "excg".
Image ptn, Mark Rowlands -found the Ssex Gay Liberatn Front and mpaigned for gay rights 1972Speakg of the early monstratn 1972 and ahead of the return of Brighton Pri, Mr Rowlands add: "We wanted people to see and to know . "Up until then people ed to say that gay men lived sad, miserable and lonely liv and we weren't. " Image ptn, Alf Le Flohic (L) said Pri and the Brighton Gay Swchboard have "stood the tt of time"Campaigners later set up a helple for the Brighton gay muny 1975, which has sce bee an LGBTQ+ support service.
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LGBTQ+ historian Alf Le Flohic said: "It was origally [lled] the Lavenr Le but beme Brighton Gay Swchboard and that was another way of ntactg people, gettg help.