Couple kissing at London Pride
(Picture: Getty Images)A IS FOR ANNIVERSARY
The annual London Pride celebrations debuted 50 years ago, meaning they share a birth year with Gwyneth Paltrow, The Rock and, perhaps more fittingly, Time magazine’s emblematic prom queen, the icon who ushered in the age of trans rights, Laverne Cox. The date of 1 July was settled on for the first London Pride to commemorate another anniversary, of the Stonewall Uprising, three years earlier in the sweltering Manhattan summer of 1969. That’s when Marsha P Johnson and her countercultural figureheads fought back from an NYPD raid on the storied Greenwich Village bar, publicly cementing our slapback to being treated as secondclass citizens. We owe all those historic heroes a raise of the glass this weekend.
