The Pride movement

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Was just reading a bbc news article re Get the L out and there was a quote from the organisers of Brighton Pride - “The Pride movement was begun by trans people...”

Is that true? It’s not what I recall reading about the history of Pride (?)

BBC article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-44769118

Worth watching / re watching the film Pride.

Nope, it's generally accredited to a butch lesbian or a gay male transvestite. Neither called themselves transsexual (as it was then) and the man has said he wasn't even there, even if he is posthumously transed.

www.hrc.org/blog/the-history-of-lgbt-pride-from-1970-to-now

www.google.co.uk/amp/amp.history.com/news/how-activists-plotted-the-first-gay-pride-parades

It came from the stonewall riots and I think it was also in memory for being who had been killed. It could of been started by a trans person.

Thanks all. Very interesting reading. I knew it stemmed from the Stonewall riots and in the 90s remember it being “Gay and Lesbian Pride” (I’m bi, so vividly remember being told people like me weren’t included). I hadn’t realised the T was integral from the beginning, which is why the quote jarred when I first read it.