Lagna
The first gay demonstration in London, 1967: photo, Lagna, unknown photographer. The Gay Liberation Front was formed in the UK in 1970 and they organised the first Gay Pride in London in 1973.
Google these names, and discover some of the people who contributed to the gay community, our history and achievements.
Aarons, Leroy, journalist
Albee, Edward, playwright
Allan, Tony, Radio Caroline Disc Jockey
Alexeyev, Nikolai, gay activist
Alli, Waheed, Lord, gay rights campaigner
Almásy, Count Laszlo de, adventurer
Almodovar, Pedro, film director
Almond, Peter Mark Sinclair (Mark Almond), singer
Alper, Caner, film maker
Amaechi, John, sportsman
Andrew, Stuart, politician
Ashley, April, transgender pioneer
Axgil, Axel, activist
Babeu, Paul, public servant and politician
Bachardy, Don, artist
Bailey, Paul, writer
Baker, Gilbert, gay flag designer
Baker, Jack, activist
Balding, Clare, broadcaster
Baldwin, James, writer
Barlow, Barrie, Gay father
Barney, Natalie Clifford, writer
Bart, Lionel, composer
Bartlett, Neil, playwright and novelist
Bass, Lance, musician
Bates, Alan, actor (disputed)
Beckford, William, Victorian novelist
Bell, Andy, singer
Bennett, Alan, writer
Berger, Simon, politician
Berkeley, Humphry, MP and gay rights supporter, 1960s
Bernstein, Leonard, composer
Beust, Ole von, politician
Binay, Mehmet, film maker
Bingham, Mark. hero
Birrell, Paul, Pride activist
Boniface VIII, born Benedetto Gaetani, (1235-1303), arts and university patron and Pope
Borges, Eric James, teenage suicide campaigner, film maker and suicide victim
Bourne, Betty, cabaret artiste
Bourne, Matthew, dancer
Brackett, Hilda, Dame, (Patrick Fyffe), arts patron
Bradley, Perry III, murder victim
Bram, Christopher, writer
Brazda, Rudolf, last surviving pink triangle prisoner of the Nazis
Britten, Benjamin, composer
Broadhead, George, activist
Brown, Bob, politician
Brown, Nick, politician
Browne of Madingley, Lord, businessman
Bryant, Chris, politician
Buchanan, James, statesman (disp)
Buckley, Steve, sports writer and broadcaster
Bunch, Charlotte, activist
Burgess, David, aka Sonia, lawyer
Burgess, Guy, spy
Burke, Brendan, sportsman
Burke, Glenn, sportsman
Burn, Captain Micky, Commando, Colditz prisoner, spy, journalist
Burr, Raymond, actor
Burroughs, William, author
Burton, Peter, writer and publisher
Buttimer, Jerry, politician
Cairns, David, politician
Calhoun, Robert, film maker
Callow, Simon, actor
Campbell, Ian, local politician and Britain’s youngest ever Mayor
Capote, Truman, writer and journalist
Carpenter, Edward, theorist and writer
Carter, Robert, Reverend, openly gay priest and gay activist
Cashier, Albert, born Jennie Irene Hodgers, transgender soldier in the US Civil War
Cashman, Michael Maurice, Member of the European Parliament
Cassady, Neal, writer
Causer, Michael, victim of homophobic violence
Cave, Dudley, humanist
Cecchin, Matt, sportsman
Chamberlain, Richard, actor
Chibarro, Lou, Jnr, journalist and publisher
Clews, Colin, activist
Clift, Montgomery, actor
Cocteau, Jean, surrealist, film maker and writer
Collier, Andrew, murder victim
Collinson, Phil, actor and television producer
Colquhoun, Maureen, politician
Cordover, Jeanne, activist
Core, Philip, artist and obituarist
Corren, Peter, activist
Coward, Colin, The Rev, gay Christian rights activist
Coward, Noel, wit, raconteur and writer
Crisp, Quentin, writer, model and commentator
Croome, Rodney, activist
Crowley, Mart, producer and writer The Boys In The Band
Cumming, Alan, actor
Cunningham, Michael, novelist
Curry, John, skater
Cusack, Donal Og, sportsman
Darby, James, gay rights pioneer
Davies, Steve, sportsman
Day, F Holland, photographer
Delanoe, Bertrand, politician
Derbyshire, Brian, writer
DiFranco, Ani, singer
Digby, Kristian, television personality
Dincdag, Halil Ibrahim, sportsman
Di Rupio, Elio, politician
Doran, Gregory, artistic director
Drewitt, Tony, Gay father
Dudgeon, Jeff, activist
Duke, Barry, humanist activist
Dunn, Christopher, murder victim
Edwards, Hilton, actor
Eisenstein, Sergei, film maker (disputed)
Ellis, Henry Havelock, writer, reformer, writer of the first book about homosexuality
Epstein, Brian, Beatles manager
Etheridge, Melissa, singer
Everett, Kenny, broadcaster
Protests against Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988
27 May 2012
The Way We Were – Gay Activist’s Gay History Blog
SP
thanks for that effort, at least in europe things are aliitle changing and the perception towards gay people is a little ok, but things in my country uganda is still alittle hard