Peter Tatchell, photographed in a green shirt, took part in an event in central London on Friday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of PrideImage subtitle: Peter Tatchell, photographed in a green shirt, took part in an event in central London on Friday to commemorate the 50th anniversary . of Pride
As we have been reporting, the first Pride March of the United Kingdom was held in London on 1 July 1972, a date chosen because it was the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots. .
Human rights defender Peter Tatchell, who helped organize the first march with the Gay Liberation Front, says the parade was the first in the world to use the term “Pride.”
“In the United States it was called Gay Liberation Day or Christopher Street Liberation Day, but we called it Pride,” he told BBC Newsnight.
“This was completely against the prevailing consensus. Society said we should be ashamed to be gay, so our idea was to give LGBT + people a sense of confidence and self-esteem to banish that guilt and shame, and be proud of who they were, ”he says.