People held LGBT+ rainbow flags on the way into St Columba's Church, Long Tower
Mourners have gathered to remember the activism of journalist Nell McCafferty, who was described as a unique and bold figure.
Tributes have poured in from activists, politicians and artists about her work as a journalist, as a prominent voice on women's rights issues across the island of Ireland and for co-founding the Irish Women's Liberation Movement in 1970. Mr McCann said: "Bloody Sunday is very important to Derry of course, it's defined us all. Whatever you thought of your politics and so on, it's defined everybody from Derry."
He said Bloody Sunday had an effect on McCafferty, on how she viewed politics, on how she thought of her city's people and its marches. "Let it not be said of us that they died in vain. Stay free brothers and sisters, there will be another day," she wrote.
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