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WickedsDesire -> Pride parade in London: Thousands join LGBT march (7/8/2017 8:31:41 AM)
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Pride parade in London: Thousands join LGBT march
Tens of thousands of people have joined the Pride parade through central London.
The annual march, now in its 45th year, marks 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales. (let me check haggis land In 1889, Scotland became the last jurisdiction in Europe to abolish the death penalty for same-sex sexual intercourse, which reduced the penalty to life imprisonment in a penitentiary.[7][8]
The United Kingdom Parliament voted to pass the Sexual Offences Act 1967 for the limited decriminalisation of homosexual acts in only England and Wales.[9] Homosexual activities were legalised in Scotland — on the same basis as that which was used for the 1967 Act — by Section 80 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980.[10] Section 2A, the legislation that prevented the promotion of homosexuality, was repealed in Scotland within the first two years of the existence of the Scottish Parliament by the "Ethical Standards in Public Life etc. (Scotland) Act 2000"
The colourful parade got underway at Portland Place and will soon pass through Oxford Circus and Regent Street, before ending in Whitehall.
A rainbow flag has been projected on to the Palace of Westminster for the first time in celebration of the event.
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