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Pride in London - Pride Jubilee
19/07/2019
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London, UK
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Fred Rowson's film for the Pride Jubilee film marches through history to highlight the key moments that have made Pride what it is today, as chosen by the LGBT+ community.

  • 28th June 1969 - Queer people of colour lead the the Stonewall Uprising in New York, where members of the LGBT+ community at the Stonewall Inn rise up against continued oppression by the police and society in general

  • 1st July 1972 - The first official UK Gay Pride Rally takes place in London

  • Early 1980s - London is hit by the AIDS crisis, with thousands diagnosed with HIV over the course of the next decade

  • 9th April 1987 - Princess Diana opens the UK's first purpose built unit for the treatment of HIV patients, shaking the hands of AIDS patients without gloves

  • 9th October 1987 - Margaret Thatcher delivers anti-gay speech at Conservative Party Conference, widely seen as setting the foundations for Section 28

  • 23rd May 1988 - Lesbian activists storm the 6 O’Clock News to protest the enactment of Section 28

  • 12th January 2000 - The ban is lifted on lesbian, gay and bisexual people openly serving in the British Armed Forces

  • 30th November 2000 - Equal age of consent for homosexual couples is finally passed after being blocked multiple times by the House of Lords

  • 17th July 2013 - Same-sex marriage is passed in England and Wales

  • 2019 - As anti-trans protestors continue to hijack Pride events globally and attacks on trans people treble in ten years, the fight for trans rights continues