With not long to go until this year’s event, Brighton & Hove Pride celebrates a milestone 50th Anniversary of the first Pride march in the city with their Pride at 50 – Dare To Be Different campaign.
Brighton & Hove Pride say: “Campaigning has always been at the forefront of Pride, and we couldn’t have achieved the advances in both civil society and legal terms without the thousands of LGBT+ trailblazers who have made a stand and Dared To Be Different.”
Organised by the Sussex Gay Liberation Front (SGLF), the first Brighton Gay Pride March took place in July 1973, and was composed of students and staff at the University of Sussex, along with LGBTQ+ people in the area.
Brighton & Hove Pride add: “Whilst we commemorate 50 years of progress and the trailblazers who came before us, we also find ourselves as a community in a challenging period with our rights and progress under threat, such as Uganda’s widely condemned new anti-LGBTQ law that includes the death penalty.
“As a community, now more than ever we need to stand together with our friends and allies around the world to call out the hatred and injustices particularly those being directed to our trans siblings. #TransPeopleAreLoved.”
The Pride at 50 campaign remembers and uplifts key members at the forefront of the Pride movement, with a widespread campaign that features on lamppost banners across the city, an exhibition at Brighton’s Jubilee Library and an online campaign to celebrate some of the most iconic trailblazers.
The exhibition, taking place at Brighton’s Jubilee Library, will feature portraits of veterans of the 1973 march, as well as vintage photographs from that march.
More information about the Pride at 50 – Dare To Be Different campaign can be found HERE.
Photos © Chris Jepson/Brighton Pride