Pride In London Releases Moving LGBTQ History Lesson with #PrideJubilee Video

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Pride In London recently released its Pride Jubilee video in anticipation of Pride events this month and their huge Pride Parade on July 6.

The video journeys through history to highlight key moments that have made Pride what it is today, as chosen by the LGBTQ community.

Earlier this year Pride in London put out an open call to the community and its partners to nominate the moments, stories and landmark events that have defined the Pride movement. The moments that came up the most were then used as the basis of the film.

With 2019 being the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on June 28, 1969, the video encapsulates 5 decades of activism, protests and victories in the UK LGBTQ movement.

Over that time, the community faced Stonewall, the AIDS epidemic, the hideous Section 28 and more. While there were certainly bleak, difficult times, the video ends on an upbeat tone.

Pride in London says, "We want to mark the moments and the people behind them."

The organization says it used an entirely LGBTQ cast in addition to actual audio and video news footage for authenticity.

Pride in London lists these key moments in history that are depicted:

• 28th June 1969 - Queer people of colour lead the the Stonewall Uprising in New York, where members of the LGBT+ community at the Stonewall Inn rise up against continued oppression by the police and society in general

• 1st July 1972 - The first official UK Gay Pride Rally takes place in London

• Early 1980s - London is hit by the AIDS crisis, with thousands diagnosed with HIV over the course of the next decade

• 9th April 1987 - Princess Diana opens the UK's first purpose built unit for the treatment of HIV patients, shaking the hands of AIDS patients without gloves

• 9th October 1987 - Margaret Thatcher delivers anti-gay speech at Conservative Party Conference, widely seen as setting the foundations for Section 28

• 23rd May 1988 - Lesbian activists storm the 6 O’Clock News to protest the enactment of Section 28

• 12th January 2000 - The ban is lifted on lesbian, gay and bisexual people openly serving in the British Army

• 30th November 2000 - Equal age of consent for homosexual couples is finally passed after being blocked multiple times by the House of Lords

• 17th July 2013 - Same-sex marriage is passed in England and Wales

• 2019 - As anti-trans protestors continue to hijack Pride events globally and attacks on trans people treble in ten years, the fight for trans rights continues