Reflecting on 50 Years of Pride

The Hall’s second ‘in conversation’ event took place on Tuesday 1 February during which Dan Glass, Gay Liberation Front activist and author, spoke to award-winning Russian journalist and writer Sergey Khazov-Cassia about the past 50 years of British Pride history. This event was hosted by the Principal of St Edmund Hall, Professor Katherine J. Willis with an in-person and online student audience joining us for a thought-provoking talk about how far LGBTQ+ rights have progressed in the last 50 years as well as comparing and contrasting the experience of the British and Russian LGBTQ+ communities.

Dan Glass is a Gay Liberation Front activist and has been recognised as Attitude Magazine’s ‘campaigning role models for LGBTQI youth’, a Guardian ‘UK youth climate leader’, 2017 ‘Activist of the Year’ with the ‘Sexual Freedom Awards’ and was announced a ‘BBC Greater Londoner’ in 2019 for founding ‘Queer Tours of London – A Mince Through Time’. Sergey Khazov-Cassia is an award-winning Russian journalist and writer living in Moscow and working for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Sergey has written and produced a series of articles and documentaries on LGBT+ and human rights. He is also the author of two novels A Different Childhood (2014) and The Gospel according to (2016), which reflect on the life and struggles of a gay person in both the Soviet Union and modern Russia.

The conversation is available to watch on St Edmund Hall’s YouTube channel.