Today marks 50 years since the first official Pride march in London. Over the years it has evolved - but not without some bumps along the way.
Pride protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square on 1 July 1972
That autumn some 150 members of the Gay Liberation Front held a torchlight vigil to protest against police harassment of gay people.The GLF marches of the early 1970s were staged in protest at police harassment of gay peopleLesbians played a key and very visible role in GLF marches throughout the 1970s and 80ssaw those events as the beginning of a huge change"There was no nervousness at all because we were with our own people, we were with our friends.
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