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Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisеxual and Transgender (LGBT+) community take part in the annual Pride Parade on July 02, 2022 in London, England. The first Gay Pride march to be held in a UK city took place from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, London on 1 July 1972 and was a carnival parade of protest against the inequalities suffered by LGBTQ+ people at the time. Attended by around 500 people, the event was heavily policed and a far cry from the tens of thousands of people who take part now, fifty years on. Although in recent years the Metropolitan police have paraded in uniform as part of the march, this year there have been calls for them not to attend, this is in part due to the botched investigation of the murders of four gay men by serial killer Stephen Port. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images)
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