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REMEMBERG THE 1981 DAY LONDON’S GAY PRI RELOTED TO HUDRSFIELD
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Check our list of top York hotels for gay travelers. “There was a mour gog round that there was a march and everyone jt lerally went up town to look and stare, ” remembers the artist Ajamu X – and he was one of ’s fair to say that neher Ajamu, then 17 and not yet out, nor Hudrsfield self had ever seen anythg like : up to 2, 000 gay rights mpaigners on a full-sle Pri march through the town centre, holdg hands, kissg, larkg about and sgg chants like: “Two, four, six, eight … is that pper really straight? ”The marchers me om all over the UK and the events of 4 July 1981 serve to be seen, says playwright Stephen M Hornby, as a watershed moment Brish gay history.
It was nothg ls than “the UK’s first natnal Gay Pri”, he says, and was Hudrsfield. Photograph: Tim Bolton-Maggs, CHENext month Hornby and Ajamu X will open a new theatre productn and portra exhibn tled The Day the World Came to Hudrsfield, shg a light on a remarkable marchers me to Hudrsfield bee of a police mpaign agast the town’s popular gay venue, the Gemi club had enjoyed good relatns wh police until a new senr officer arrived clarg he was “gog to make Hudrsfield a homosexual-ee zone”, says club beme a target and was repeatedly pulled up on mor technili a bid to get the licence revoked. “They start mappg who the gay men are the town and dog thgs like turng up at their workplac and outg them, ” says harassment ma headl Gay News and a cisn was ma to move the annual Pri march, held London sce 1972, to Hudrsfield.