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“Our view was that unless we fought for our rights, we’d continue to be persecuted and harassed forever.” “They said we were extremists, they said that demanding equal rights for gay people would only draw public attention to us and result in further oppression,” Peter explained. “Back then the overwhelming amount of LGBTQ+ people were closeted, shameful and didn’t believe they were entitled to equal rights,” Peter told us, adding that gay patrons outside of queer pubs would throw coins and beer bottles at them. While Pride is a calendar highlight for many LGBTQ+ people, when promoting the march back in 1972, the GLF faced resistance from the community.
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“They were ashamed of their sexuality and gender identity so our counter to gay shame was Gay Pride,” Peter Tatchell – one of the people who organised that 1972 Pride march – recently told GAY TIMES.īefore 1 July 1972 there had been many marches for LGBTQ+ rights across the UK, but this was the inaugural protest that would become part of the modern global Pride movement. Same-sex sexual acts had only been decriminalised in England and Wales five years earlier, so the LGBTQ+ community was still dealing with the trauma they’ve suffered during the decades before. Up to 40 members of the Gay Liberation Front had organised the protest, hoping it would serve as an antidote to widespread gay shame prevalent throughout the community. On 1 July 1972, around 2,000 people marched down Regent’s Street in London in the name of Gay Pride.