Amazing archival images of the drag queens of the Gay Liberation Front ❤️ The photos are currently on display at queercircle in Greenwich. See more here ➡️
“That’s me and my friend Nicholas Bramble,” says Stuart Feather. “The man in the fishnets. He came as the Spirit of Porn.” It’s September 1970, and Stuart Feather is being thrown by police into a van wearing pearls and a dress and a wig. Thehad staged a demonstration at the Festival of Light, a nationwide church campaign to re-criminalise homosexuality, make abortion illegal, and have stricter penalties on porn and prostitution.
A photograph of the event is on view at Queercircle, a new LGBTQ+ cultural space on Greenwich Peninsula. Titled, the exhibition showcases rare documentary photography celebrating the radical drag queens of the UK Gay Liberation Front , designed to mark the 50th anniversary of the first UK Pride March in 1972. “Over 50 per cent of dedicated LGBTQ+ spaces in London have closed in the last ten years,” says Ashley Joiner, Queercircle’s founder.
GLF realised that homophobia stemmed from gender norms, from sexism and patriarchy. Still today, being punished for being gay often stems for one’s failure at being ‘a man.’ Radical queens, then, are pivotal. “We were more and more fed up with the games men were playing,” says Feather. “The women were complaining early on about misogyny. I thought about it a lot.” On display is a photograph of a demonstration outside Bow Street’s Magistrates Court.
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