The photos show the parade in motion and one of the games they played in Hyde Park.ĭr Gillian Murphy, Curator of Equality, Rights and Citizenship at LSE Library, made the discovery. ![]() There was then to be a Gay Day in Hyde Park. “After happenings, street theatre and other fun”, the parade was to make its way down Lower Regent’s Street to Piccadilly Circus, then along Shaftesbury Avenue, and Charing Cross Road, to Oxford Street and Speakers’ Corner. The carnival parade was starting in Trafalgar Square and two of the photographs show people gathering there. Saturday 1 July 1972 was International Gay Pride Day coinciding with similar events happening in Europe, the United States, Canada and the main cities of the UK. Bring banner, balloons and all other fun things” were the instructions. The curator found them while looking for material on gay pride in the library's Hall-Carpenter Archives.Īlong with the photographs, there are leaflets giving information about the day. The photographs were originally marked as 'undated', but with some detective work, they were dated to 1 July 1972. LSE Library has discovered a group of six photographs of the first gay pride, organised by the Gay Liberation Front, which took place 50 years ago.
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