{"id":2079,"date":"2022-07-01T19:42:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/01\/pride-at-50-the-lgbt-revolution-sparked-in-a-basement\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:42:21","slug":"pride-at-50-the-lgbt-revolution-sparked-in-a-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"Pride at 50: The LGBT revolution sparked in a basement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lauren Moss, LGBT correspondent, and Josh Parry, LGBT producer<\/strong>
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Stuart Feather (left), in drag, is bundled into a police car during a gay-rights protest, in 1971<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s 1972 – the swinging ’60s are over, the miners’ strike has turned off the lights and Donny Osmond is topping the charts with Puppy Love. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It will be another 20 years before same-sex attraction is declassified as a mental illness and, despite homosexual acts being decriminalised, in 1967, the age of consent remains five years older than for heterosexual couples. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But, in a basement room at the London School of Economics, a revolution is brewing. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fresh from protests calling for the age of consent to be lowered, the year before, members of the Gay Liberation Front<\/a> are planning a new march – not only demanding change and equality but celebrating who they are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And, although they do not yet know it, the ripple effects will still be felt decades later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The UK’s first Pride protest is about to be born. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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