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Ted Brown: the man who held a mass kiss-in and made history


Ted Brown: the man who held a mass kiss-in and made history
Ted Brown: ‘I felt that we were continuing the legacy of the civil rights march.’ Photograph: Tristan Bejawn/The Guardian
After a tumultuous childhood, he helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride in 1972 – going on to battle against homophobic media, in a lifetime devoted to change
Thu 8 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
On 1 July 1972 Ted Brown walked through central London, stopped at Trafalgar Square for a kiss – and made history. He was at the event he had helped to organise, the UK’s first official Gay Pride, in which more than 2,000 people marched through the capital before holding a mass kiss-in. Half a century later, his memories of the day are euphoric. “It was amazing,” he says. “I felt that we were continuing the legacy of the civil rights march.” That day he took photographs of buoyant butch lesbians and men in drag, crowding around the Trafalgar Square lions and fountains, draping them w ....

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