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A new exhibn is showsg prevly unseen pictur of Brighton's first Gay Pri march 1973, after old negativ were disvered an archive.

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BRIGHTON PRI: UNSEEN IMAG OF 1973 GAY MARCH DISVERED

Pri events 2022 mark 50 years sce gay rights mpaigners marched through Brighton 1972. * brighton gay pride march *

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.

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The unseen imag of the cy's first Gay Pri march are beg displayed at an exhibn. * brighton gay pride march *

" 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. 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.

BRIGHTON PRI TO MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAY RIGHTS MARCH

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”He also spoke out agast the Commonwealth, which he said is a “bastn of homophobia”, llg for “an end to the crimalisatn of LGBTs 35 Commonwealth untri” up to First Edn, our ee daily newsletter – every weekday morng at 7am BSTAguilera, who also performed at Los Angel Pri June, is among dozens of acts who will take to the stage at Prton Park over the weekend for We are performers clu Ella Henrson, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Björn Aga and RuPl’s Drag Race UK stars Tia Kofi and Bimi. This weekend also marks the 50th anniversary of the cy’s first march, anised by the Ssex Gay Liberatn Kemp, aniser of Pri, told the BBC: “It has been a very long wa but we’re fally here.

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Brighton Pri will be markg the 50th anniversary of the first gay pri march the cy. * brighton gay pride march *

Image source, Andy Garth/Arg Photographic ArchivImage ptn, The imag are said to be a missg part of Brighton's LGBT historyNewly-disvered photographs of Brighton's first Gay Pri march 1973 are beg shown for the first time at an old negativ were found a drawer of the Arg newspaper archiv, after the outlet photographed the event but did not publish any march was a forenner of Brighton Pri, the UK's biggt Pri exhibn featurg the pictur is nng throughout Augt at the Ssex Bean the cy's Kemptown source, Andy Garth/Arg Photographic ArchivImage ptn, The march was a 'trag ground' for the activism which followed, Simon Watney saidMembers of Gay Brighton Past, an onle history group, disvered the imag the newspaper's of the group, Alf Le Flohic, om The Universy of Brighton, said nobody knew the photos existed.

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"The pictur are a missg part of Brighton's LGBT muny history, so was really important to give everyone the chance to see them, " he source, Andy Garth/Arg Photographic ArchivImage ptn, The march was anised by the Ssex Gay Liberatn Front (SGLF)Mr Le Flohic lked up wh former members of the Ssex Gay Liberatn Front (SGLF) - who anised the march - as part of his rearch to the event. Founr Simon Watney said: "The ia that one's 'Glad to be Gay' may sound terribly naive today, but was the begng of a whole notn that you uld be lbian or gay and not be ashamed.

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