Thank you, Guardian, for publishing Sunil Gupta’s joyous photographs of the LGBTQ+ movement in Britain in its early years (‘This was my own tribe!’: Pride before it went commercial – in pictures, 22 November), including his photo of the banner of the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights (we added “lesbian” in 1984). I was marching under that banner.
In those days before the corporatisation of Pride (big business wanted nothing to do with us; we were illegal and had no rights), we understood that we had to fight for legal and social change by protest and lobbying.
