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PROUD: THE FIRST GAY PRI LONDON
Lookg through our llectn for signs of the long stggle for gay rights. * first london gay pride *
It was the first Gay Pri a cy the UK and the neart Saturday to the Stonewall date of 28 June. The Gay Liberatn Front at Trafalgar Square, early 1970s. Numero gay rights anisatns took part, cludg the GLF and CHE, and 200 - 500 people turned up, but was heavily policed.
The march was part of a week-long monstratns and ‘Gay Ins’ for London Pri.
First Gay Pri, 1972. Sectns of the women’s movement thought the ncerns were domated by gay men.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
* first london gay pride *
This float om an early Gay Pri march shows the batn of mic and marchg that took place the early 1970s.
Float an Early Gay Pri March. Words like gay (and more recently queer) were reclaimed by activists om beg homophobic sults and celebrated. Slogans like ‘Glad to be Gay’ and ‘Gay is good’ n be seen on the plards rried early Pri march.
London Gay Pri, 1974. From 1533 England, homosexual activi between men were a crime punishable by ath.