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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.
This float om an early Gay Pri march shows the batn of mic and marchg that took place the early 1970s.
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* first london gay pride *
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. In the 18th and 19th century, certa London pubs and ffeeho beme popular gay meetg plac, known as "Molly-ho".
The 18th century book Pla Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy England attributed a supposed crease homosexualy to men's drs. The thor claimed gay men wanted to drs like women: "they would appear as soft as possible to each other, any Thg of Manls beg diametrilly oppose to such unnatural Practic. It was not until the 1960s that gay men's flamboyant drs styl fluenced mastream fashn, makg more lourful and adventuro.