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"The theory was that while everybody was hiding their sexuality or gender identity, we were never going to get anywhere," says Nettie Pollard, another GLF member who helped to organise the 1972 march. The age of consent for gay sex between men wasn't reduced to 16 – the same as for everyone else – until 2000.īut it was the inaugural Gay Pride Rally held in London on Jthat had a broader agenda. Though the Sexual Offences Act 1967 had ostensibly decriminalised male homosexual acts, it only applied to men of 21 and over. Tatchell points out that many young men were still treated as criminals for sleeping with other men. “They didn’t show their face in public for fear of arrest, rejection by their friends and family, and being sacked from their jobs." “Back then, most LGBTQ+ people were ashamed and closeted,” recalls activist Peter Tatchell, who helped to organise the 1972 march. It came after the UK’s first LGBTQ+ rights demonstration that took place on November 27, 1970, when 150 members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) held a torchlight rally against police harassment in north London’s Highbury Fields. It’s now half a century since the first Pride march took place in London in 1972, in which hundreds took to the streets in protest against oppression, police mistreatment, and homophobia.
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But it’s also a significant year to look back at all of what the LGBTQ+ movement has achieved. Dozens of events will be held this month from Belfast to London and Shetland to Brighton where queer people and their allies will march, raise placards, and party.
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2022 is a landmark year for Britain’s LGBTQ+ community as it marks 50 years of UK Pride.