Fifty years ago, a group of LGBT+ campaigners marched from London's Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park to protest against discrimination and fight for acceptance in the city's first ever Pride rally.
Among them on the march on July 1 1972, organised by activist group the Gay Liberation Front , was John R. Lloyd, now 69.
Speaking at his home in Deal, in southern England, 73-year-old Simon Watney looked through old photos of the march and recalled his reasons for joining with his then-boyfriend. Eric Ollerenshaw, 72, remembered how the police that day weren't rude but looked "distinctly uncomfortable." Organisers of this year's Pride say it will commemorate those torch bearers of 50 years ago, as well as highlighting the challenges they say the community still faces nationally and globally.Veteran activist Peter Tatchell, who also marched that day in 1972, said he felt Pride had become over-commercialised and corporate in recent years and he would attend an alternative event.
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