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Contents:
- ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- BRIGHTON PRI: UNSEEN IMAG OF 1973 GAY MARCH DISVERED
ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
The first march was anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) - a group first formed the US, who wanted to take a stand agast 1970, the group cid to hold s first para, on the one year anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn 1969 - where LGBT+ patrons had been targeted by the New York Police Department. Throughout the para, there will also be a few performanc across stag certa are the different stag:• Trafalgar Square Stage Mic om: Wt End Cast of SIX the Mil, Jahan, Kgs Elltt, Wners of Pri's Got Talent 2023, Homoparody, Jack Hawt, Stars Louis III, Dylan & the Moon, Ida Menzel, Todrick Hall and Adam Lambert. • Dean Street StageMic: Sadie Sner & The Coa Butter Club, Be Jangl, Alexa Vox, HERR & Me, Lola Lasagne, Conleth Kane, London Gay Men's Chos, Alpha Dancers, Natalie Gray, Jobie, Jenny Son, Aaron Sibley, Andrea Di Gvanni, Sweet FA, Fae Wildfyre, Jordan Charl, Moira Ls and performanc: Hs Of Zodiac, Wner of Pri's Got Talent 2023, Marnie Srlet, BOi Boxm Bourgeois & Mrice, Jordan Gray and Juno Birch.
Accsibily: Venue do not ter for any accsibily more om Sky News:More people set to be pardoned for historil crim lked to homosexualyWhat 's like to be LGBTQ+ a untry where you uld be killedHow to watchThe para is ee to attend and watch om the n get a good view om Picdilly Circ, Trafalgar Square as well as Haymarket and n also buy tickets at the Haymarket Grandstand which will be open om Para 2022 pictur.
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.
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
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.
BRIGHTON PRI: UNSEEN IMAG OF 1973 GAY MARCH DISVERED
Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry. "The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.
Homosexualy was crimalised the UK 1967 but a ban ntued the armed forc. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc.