This report is by Joseph Price, one of our first year unrgraduate stunts. 35 years ago, on the 29th June 1985, London’s gay pri para received some very unlikely supporters who saw their duty to show their support for a muny who had helped them survive durg tumultuo tim. The supporters were b loads…
Contents:
- WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
- GAY PRI
- PRI OR PROTT? WAL’ FIRST GAY PRI MARCH, 1985
- 50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS
- A STORY OF SOLIDARY: MERS AND THE GAY COMMUNY
WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
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GAY PRI
The year 1970 marked what many historians nsir the first gay pri paras Ameri. * gay pride 1985 *
"In the homema LGSM documentary, we also glimpse a tall, handsome fellow wearg groovy leather troers, shakg a donatns bucket outsi Gay's the Word bookshop London's Marchmont Street – this is Jonathan Blake. Cliff, an olr mer ( the film, a killgly funny and affectg Bill Nighy) appears the documentary sayg: "The lbians and gays have been super duper.
PRI OR PROTT? WAL’ FIRST GAY PRI MARCH, 1985
The L.A. Pri Para and Ftival Wt Hollywood is a fixture of Los Angel life, but 50 years ago, was at the center of a heated battle between the thori and the LGBT muny’s wish to be publicly gay. * gay pride 1985 *
One hope is that the film might revive polil tert bee the activism of the left has been siled, the tra unns are weak, gay rights issu aren't there.
50 YEARS OF L.A. PRI, THE WORLD’S FIRST PERMTED GAY PRI PARA, POSTERS
* gay pride 1985 *
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A STORY OF SOLIDARY: MERS AND THE GAY COMMUNY
And when he has to make a speech a gay bar wh a clientele whose look is more S&M than M&S, you fear for him – how is all gog to pan out? Twenty-seven gay people ( the film is a dozen) slept on his floor – the morng, his six-year-old dghter "uldn't put her foot down".
We knew gay people existed – my dad worked wh a mer who was gay – but nobody openly talked about ; was nsired very personal.
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