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1./ I was just sent a video by @PeterTatchell celebrating 50 years since the Gay Liberation Front was founded. I hope you like my slight enhancement. How strange that in NONE of the archive is there a single appearance of those acronyms LGBT or LGBTQ. Wonder why? 👇
2./ You know for sure Peter would have chiselled them in if he could have found a single image. But just like the claim that trans people started the Stonewall riot the truth is trans people didn’t play a significant role in the founding of GLF. Nor did Peter.
3./ Peter didn’t arrive in the UK until the following year. The year before that a 19 year old women called @BevJacksonAuth became GLF spokesperson and told the Times, “we are not ashamed to be homosexual”. Almost exactly a year ago in 2019 she co-founded @ALLIANCELGB
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