Despite having reasonable legal protections for LGBTQ+ people in Brazil, the risk of harassment and violence was very high. At least the posters turned up!įinally, Nancy talked about the biggest Pride March of them all. I searched but couldn’t find any photos of any people on a march. This had Nancy in tears for most the day as she followed the progress of the Pride March on Twitter. In celebration the council had flown the Pride flag. On the other hand, Orkney had recently had its first Pride March. Nancy blamed such regressive laws across the world on ‘colonialism’. In Malawi 50 ‘siblings’ had asked the government to decriminalise same sex relations. Nancy wanted to talk about new Pride marches which had happened recently.
Pride is a party and a protest – it was about standing up and stepping out and resisting all the phobias (homo, bi, trans, etc). The new policy ‘Free to be’ meant that all LGBTQ+ people would be honoured, especially those pushed to the margins. Nancy was particularly proud of the sex education work Stonewall had done and thought it would be a game changer. Nancy reminded us that there were rising hate crimes at the moment and recently a man in East London had been murdered in a public park in a suspected anti-gay attack. The first Pride March was in 1973 and showed a photograph in which the placards seen either had ‘homosexual’ or ‘gay’ on them. Three cheers for Dave and bi visibility! First UK Pride Dawes is also into BDSM and polyamorous and gave a rope bondage workshop at a bisexual conference. I personally prefer to give a shout-out to Dave Dawes, recently suspended by the Royal College of Nursing for allegations of being ‘openly hostile’ to women and sexual harassment. Biphobia had made Brenda Howard invisible and she wanted us to ‘call her name out’. She was a bi rights activist, a ‘polyamorous kinkster into BDSM’ and also a registered nurse – so Nancy thought mentioning her was particularly apt for NHS staff. Nancy particularly wanted to bring attention to Brenda Howard, who is apparently known as the ‘Mother of Pride’. The first Pride March was held a year later. The Stonewall riot sent a powerful message to the world and shortly after the Gay Liberation Front was formed.
Then Nancy went a bit off-script, and showed a photo of Storme De Laverie and described her as an ‘absolute giant’ and suggested perhaps she threw the first brick at the Stonewall riot.
So you see, said Nancy, we’ve all forgotten about Comptons being the most important riot and people think about the Stonewall riot instead. Again, there is absolutely zero evidence of the alleged riot being the inciting incident to these social changes. Nancy said that following the incident that many organisations were set up to help trans people. Thus, there are no photographs or other evidence for the incident, other than his own documentary, which is an entirely sleight of hand affair in my opinion.ĭigging an even deeper hole for herself, Nancy told us drag queens and ‘trans women’ weren’t allowed to go to gay bars in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco, so had to go to Compton’s instead (in fact gay men went there because it was a cheap all night chain cafe where they could loiter for hours). Unfortunately for Nancy, I have watched and reviewed Stryker’s documentary, in which he fails to even establish a date for the supposed riot in August 1966. Nancy showed this photo and said it was of the Compton Cafe riot For example, the first momentous civil disobedience action was not the Stonewall riot, but a riot which took place at Compton’s Cafeteria a few years earlier led by ‘trans women’.
The LGBTQ+ movement thus far had mainly benefited white abled-bodied cis people, said Nancy, whilst other siblings had been airbrushed out of history. Nancy isn’t a historian and recommends that people look for further information from Lisa Power (personal interest in history) and Christine Burns (blatant trans activist) if we were interested. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we will begin …. This is the first ever Pride event that the NHS has held and Nancy was here to tell us about the history of Pride.
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