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Originally Posted by parmnion
Got anything on ex POWs not being allowed to take part in these memorial parades?
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“Until the mid-1980s, it was forbidden to lay a pink triangle wreath at the Cenotaph in remembrance of the LGBT victims of fascism and of LGBT service personnel who fought to defeat Nazism. The wreaths we laid were swiftly removed. She helped me and others overturn the wreath ban.
“Prior to the late 1990s, the Royal British Legion refused to acknowledge that LGBT people has served and died in the armed forces. It would not allow a LGBT war veterans contingent to march in the official Remembrance Day parade.
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https://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/shar...ean-1923-2013/
if you want more, do you own research, I have no time to post more links for you
17-07-2019, 12:14 PM
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