So we shouldn’t be complacent about where we are there’s still a long way to go. Hate crime against LGBTQIA+ people is actually rising. “Yet still today, you’re twice as likely to be bullied at school if you’re LGBTQIA+ than if you’re not. “We have travelled a path froma position wheremany LGBTQIA+ relationships were criminalised through the long period of Section 28 where LGBTQIA+ children were going through education without anyone even talking about our community existing. “If you think back to those people who were on that first Pridemarch in London 50 years ago, this is almost a world they couldn’t imagine,” she says. Over that half-century, themovement has driven and borne witness to seismic societal change, says Nancy Kelley, chief executive of Stonewall, the LGBTQIA+ rights charity named after the watershed US protests. With events now held the length and breadth of the country – and the London event alone attracting 1.5million supporters and spectators annually – Pridemarks its 50th anniversary in the UK this year. Born in the US, in reaction to the infamous 1969 Stonewall riots, the Pride movement had o cially arrived in the UK. Proceeding through the capital toHyde Park, wearing carnival costumes and waving protest banners, they were both celebrating and demanding human rights for the LGBTQIA+ community.
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FREE 2 June 2022 Next issue out 16 June OFFERS Enjoy great savings on selected products p46 JUBILEE SPECIAL Eight pages of fabulous food and drink ideas SIR IAN McKELLEN Proud to be part of ‘the world’s big family’ p10 GIVE IT A SWIRL Edd Kimber’s colourful tie-dye rainbow biscuits p19 50 years of Pride Our special edition celebrates the UKmovement’s half-century of flying the flag for equality, from p2Ģ J UNE 202 2 2 On 1 July 1972, around 1,000 people gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square.
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