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QUARRELS (Queers Asserting the Right to Ride Every Line Safely) Demonstration

Archive type: Video
Archive ID: lcva_87480
Date: 1991
Location: Central London
Chroma: Colour
Duration: 00:04:17
Credits: View

This 1991 colour video documents QUARRELS, a demonstration organised by the activist group OutRage to promote the safety and visibility of queer people on London’s Underground. The film opens with lesbians and gay men preparing for the protest, distributing buckets and sashes, before cutting to scenes of the crowd assembling and rally organisers addressing participants through megaphones. On the platform, demonstrators display balloons with slogans like “I love queers” and “queer love,” while others playfully engage with the camera amid bemused commuters. The video captures chants, whistles, and speeches echoing through Farringdon station, culminating in the group’s dance to Locomotion along the streets of Soho.

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