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Gay Liberation Front retrace original Pride march route on 50th anniversary

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Veterans of the UK’s first Pride march celebrated the 50th anniversary by retracing the exact route that was walked in 1972. Well over a thousand people met at the steps of St Martins-in-the-Field church on Charing Cross Road before walking through Oxford Street to Hyde Park. Ted Brown, one of the organisers of the UK’s first official Gay Pride, told GAY TIMES he felt “a strong sense of achievement” as he marched once again in 2022. “We now have civil partnerships, we have gay marriage, we have legal protection, and…

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Gay Liberation Front to retrace original Pride march route on 50th anniversary

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The veterans and allies of the UK’s Gay Liberation Front (GLF) will hold a protest march to mark the 50th anniversary of the country’s first Pride. It is set to take place on 1 July, exactly 50 years after the original march took place in 1972. A collective statement from GLF veterans said they are “celebrating the exact anniversary of our 1972 pride march and protest regardless of any decisions the mayoral Pride run by the London LGBT Community Pride CIC (LLCP) takes for its event on Saturday, 2 July.”…

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New York park named after LGBTQ+ rights pioneer Marsha P. Johnson

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Brooklyn’s East River State Park has been renamed after Marsha P. Johnson, making it the first state park in the United States to honour an LGBTQ+ person. New York governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Monday, on what would have been the transgender activist’s 75th birthday. “Too often, the marginalised voices that have pushed progress forward in New York and across the country go unrecognised, making up just a fraction of our public memorials and monuments,” Cuomo wrote in a statement. “Marsha P. Johnson was one of the early…

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