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- EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWN‘VIBRANTLY ILLTRATED’ STAMPS TO MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST UK PRI RALLYUK NEWSPUBLISHED: JUN 22, 2022A FILM G THE ILLTRATNS FEATURED THE STAMPS HAS BEEN MA LLABORATN WH ANIMATN STUD ANIMA.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPNEW STAMPS MARKG THE ANNIVERSARY OF PRI MARCHROYAL MAIL HAS REVEALED IMAG OF A NEW SET OF “VIBRANTLY ILLTRATED” STAMPS TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UK’S FIRST PRI RALLY.THE EIGHT STAMPS CELEBRATE A MARCH THAT TOOK PLACE OM TRAFALGAR SQUARE TO HY PARK LONDON JULY 1972, WHICH WAS THE FIRST TO BEAR THE NAME GAY PRI RALLY.THE MARCH WAS SPIRED BY EVENTS THE UNED STAT, WHERE THE FIRST PRI EVENTS HAD TAKEN PLACE TO MEMORATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK.THE STAMPS, SPECIALLY MISSNED BY ROYAL MAIL, WERE ILLTRATED BY AWARD-WNG ARTIST SOFIE BIRK, ART DIRECTED BY NB STUD AND ROYAL MAIL NSULTED WH S TERNAL LGBT & FRIENDS NETWORK.THE SET OF EIGHT NEW STAMPS BEG ISSUED TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UK’S FIRST PRI RALLY (ROYAL MAIL/PA)THEY PICT THE FIRST GAY PRI RALLY AND EARLY PRI EVENTS WHERE PARTICIPANTS SHOUTED SLOGANS SUCH AS, “GAY IS FUN! GAY IS PROUD! GAY IS BETIFUL!”, TO THE MORE RECENT UPDATE ON THE TRADNAL RABOW FLAG.DAVID GOLD, OF ROYAL MAIL, SAID: “THE VIBRANT, LOURFUL PRI EVENTS THAT TAKE PLACE TOWNS AND CI ACROSS THE UK TODAY TRACE THEIR ORIGS TO A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO MARCHED THROUGH CENTRAL LONDON HALF A CENTURY AGO TO RAISE AWARENS OF DISCRIMATN AND EQUALY.“THERE HAVE BEEN HUGE CHANG LAWS AND SOCIAL ATTUS, BUT PRI EVENTS NTUE TO PLAY A KEY ROLE RAISG AWARENS OF DISCRIMATN, AS WELL AS CELEBRATG DIVERSY AND DIVIDUALISM.”ALAN DYE, CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF NB STUD, SAID: “IT WAS A REAL HONOUR TO BE ASKED TO SIGN THIS INIC SERI FOR THE ROYAL MAIL, AS THEY REPRENT SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF BRISH LGBTQ+ HISTORY.“WATCHG THE BETIFUL ILLTRATNS E TO LIFE, YOU ULD EASILY IMAGE YOURSELF AS PART OF THE ‘MARCH THROUGH TIME’.”NB STUD HAS CREATED A FILM G THE ILLTRATNS FEATURED THE STAMPS, LLABORATN WH ANIMATN STUD ANIMA.UK NEWSMOST READ
- GAY PRI RALLY 50TH ANNIVERSARY (UK 2022)
EXPRS & STARHOMENEWSSPORTENTERTAMENTSERVICNOTIFITN SETTGSSUBSCRIBE TO ONE OR ALL NOTIFITN SOURC OM THIS ONE PLACE.NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S TOP STORI SENT DIRECTLY TO YOU.SIGN ME UPNEWSALL NEWS COST OF LIVGLOL HUBSCRIMEPOLICSHEALTHBSEDUTNVOICFEATURENVIRONMENTMORE UK NEWSNOSTALGIAPROPERTYTRANSPORTMOTORSWORLD NEWSVIRAL NEWSFEED A FAYSPONSORED ARTICLFD NEWS FOR YOUR TOWN‘VIBRANTLY ILLTRATED’ STAMPS TO MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST UK PRI RALLYUK NEWSPUBLISHED: JUN 22, 2022A FILM G THE ILLTRATNS FEATURED THE STAMPS HAS BEEN MA LLABORATN WH ANIMATN STUD ANIMA.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER!SIGN UPNEW STAMPS MARKG THE ANNIVERSARY OF PRI MARCHROYAL MAIL HAS REVEALED IMAG OF A NEW SET OF “VIBRANTLY ILLTRATED” STAMPS TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UK’S FIRST PRI RALLY.THE EIGHT STAMPS CELEBRATE A MARCH THAT TOOK PLACE OM TRAFALGAR SQUARE TO HY PARK LONDON JULY 1972, WHICH WAS THE FIRST TO BEAR THE NAME GAY PRI RALLY.THE MARCH WAS SPIRED BY EVENTS THE UNED STAT, WHERE THE FIRST PRI EVENTS HAD TAKEN PLACE TO MEMORATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK.THE STAMPS, SPECIALLY MISSNED BY ROYAL MAIL, WERE ILLTRATED BY AWARD-WNG ARTIST SOFIE BIRK, ART DIRECTED BY NB STUD AND ROYAL MAIL NSULTED WH S TERNAL LGBT & FRIENDS NETWORK.THE SET OF EIGHT NEW STAMPS BEG ISSUED TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UK’S FIRST PRI RALLY (ROYAL MAIL/PA)THEY PICT THE FIRST GAY PRI RALLY AND EARLY PRI EVENTS WHERE PARTICIPANTS SHOUTED SLOGANS SUCH AS, “GAY IS FUN! GAY IS PROUD! GAY IS BETIFUL!”, TO THE MORE RECENT UPDATE ON THE TRADNAL RABOW FLAG.DAVID GOLD, OF ROYAL MAIL, SAID: “THE VIBRANT, LOURFUL PRI EVENTS THAT TAKE PLACE TOWNS AND CI ACROSS THE UK TODAY TRACE THEIR ORIGS TO A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO MARCHED THROUGH CENTRAL LONDON HALF A CENTURY AGO TO RAISE AWARENS OF DISCRIMATN AND EQUALY.“THERE HAVE BEEN HUGE CHANG LAWS AND SOCIAL ATTUS, BUT PRI EVENTS NTUE TO PLAY A KEY ROLE RAISG AWARENS OF DISCRIMATN, AS WELL AS CELEBRATG DIVERSY AND DIVIDUALISM.”ALAN DYE, CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF NB STUD, SAID: “IT WAS A REAL HONOUR TO BE ASKED TO SIGN THIS INIC SERI FOR THE ROYAL MAIL, AS THEY REPRENT SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF BRISH LGBTQ+ HISTORY.“WATCHG THE BETIFUL ILLTRATNS E TO LIFE, YOU ULD EASILY IMAGE YOURSELF AS PART OF THE ‘MARCH THROUGH TIME’.”NB STUD HAS CREATED A FILM G THE ILLTRATNS FEATURED THE STAMPS, LLABORATN WH ANIMATN STUD ANIMA.UK NEWSMOST READ
On 1 July 1972 a crowd of people gathered London’s Trafalgar Square and marched to Hy Park chantg “Gay is fun! Gay is proud! Gay is betiful!
But was the first rally the UK wh the name “Gay Pri”, spired by Pri events the years on, Royal Mail is memoratg the landmark event wh a set of eight illtrated stamps, art-directed by NB Stud and illtrated by the award-wng artist Sofie Birk, whose work has featured mpaigns for brands such as Nike and stamps rry vibrantly loured illtratns of typil scen at Pri events, which are now an annual fixture at ci across the world.
GAY PRI RALLY 50TH ANNIVERSARY (UK 2022)
Photograph: Royal Mail/PAOne of the mands of the first Pri rally the UK was greater legal equaly for gay people. Homosexualy was partially crimalised England and Wal 1967 yet police arrts of gay and bisexual men remaed mon the years followg. However, a climate of homophobia only creased the 1980s as the Aids epimic led to a rise attacks on LGBTQ+ people.
A very lourful set of eight stamps will be issued by Royal Mail on Friday 1 July 2022 markg the the 50th anniversary of the first Pri rally London is not jt about the rally is acknowledgement by Royal Mail, some time after many other untri, of the signifint proportn of the populatn who intify as one of the LGBTQ+ Mail celebrat the march that took place om Trafalgar Square to Hy Park, and of which was the first to bear the name ‘Gay Pri Rally’. Usg her work to promote the gay agenda wherever possible, her illtratns have featured mpaigns for brands such as Nike and Apple. Begng 1972, the stamps tell a story of Pri over time; begng wh the first ‘Gay Pri rally’, where participants shouted slogans such as ‘Glad to be gay’, to the more recent update on the tradnal rabow flag; s sign enpassg the flags of trans and tersex people, while also referencg the cln of LGBTQ+ people of of 1st class PRIDE stamps issued 1 July of 1st class PRIDE stamps issued 1 July of £1.
The set marks the 50th anniversary of the untry’s first gay pri march, which took place London 1972 and was spired by siar events the US. Related: UK reveals new banknote featurg gay, maths geni Alan Turg. A gay man, his reer was left tatters after he was arrted for gross cency 1952.