# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CoR6wAeuE4X
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/3779870-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-02-05T12:01:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

gettyarchive will be marking UK LGBT+ History Month throughout February, with new discoveries, vintage works, and a closer look at the event’s 2023 theme, Behind the Lens.⁠
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Follow our bio link for more British LGBT+ history, and swipe through to see:⁠
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1. A member of the Gay Liberation Front, circa 1971 | Evening Standard/Hulton Archive⁠
2. Irish writer, wit and playwright, Oscar Wilde, 1882 | Napoleon Sarony/Fine Art Images/Heritage Images⁠
3. Known as "the fastest woman on water", Betty ‘Joe’ Carstairs with her engineer Joe Harris in the cockpit of her speedboat, Estelle IV, 29th May 1930 | Douglas Miller/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive⁠
4. British dentist Georgina Turtle (1923 - 2013) prepares to marry Christopher Somerset at St Margaret's Church in London, 13th October 1962. The former Royal Navy officer had gender affirming surgery in 1957 | Evening Standard/Hulton Archive⁠
5. A drag act watched by drinkers in a pub in Lambeth, London, 1966 | Wolfgang Kunz/ullstein bild via Getty Images⁠
6. English artist David Hockney, 25th August 1969 | David Montgomery | davidmontgomerystudio⁠
7. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading performs in Italy, 1983 | Luciano Viti | lucianovitiphoto⁠
8. A couple photographed at the 1993 Pride march, London| Steve Eason/Hulton Archive | steve8eason⁠
9. A drag queen has their picture taken with a member of the Household Cavalry on Whitehall during the 1994 Pride event, London | Steve Eason/Hulton Archive⁠
10. Celebrities help to hold a banner opposing Section 28, at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride event, London, 4th July 1998. Those present include (from second left) actor Michael Cashman, comedian Rhona Cameron and activist Peter Tatchell. First and second from right are musician and radio presenter Tom Robinson, and comedian and TV presenter Graham Norton. Section 28 was an amendment to the Local Government Act 1988, passed by the British parliament the previous May and forbidding the 'promotion' of homosexuality by local authorities. It was repealed in 2003 | Steve Eason/Hulton Archive⁠
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#GettyImages #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive #LGBTQHistory⁠

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