![]() ![]() ![]() We have many collections that relate to HIV / AIDS and the activism and support that helped to break down barriers including: Simon Watney, Peter Tatchell and Body Positive. The backlash coincided with the onset of AIDS.They were particularly concerned about employment rights and police attitudes towards LGBT people. The Greater London Council Gay Rights Working Party was formed in 1981 to investigate gay issues in the London area. Margaret Thatcher’s government is often seen as a time when the establishment fought against gay rights. Quest started in 1973 to provide pastoral support for LGBT+ Catholics.Friend (Fellowship for the Relief of the Isolated and Emotionally in Need and Distress) – a national counselling and befriending organisation.It also founded local groups around the country offering social activities and support for lesbians and gay men. The Campaign for Homosexual Equality led the fight for full legal equality.We hold the papers of some members of the GLF - John Chesterman, Rupert Beach, Michael Brown, Lisa Power, Mary McIntosh, Michael James, Simon Watney and Peter Tatchell.Įxhibit: the Gay Liberation Front in Britain.īlog: Sociology and the Gay Liberation Front – Bob Mellors at LSE.īlog: Mary McIntosh’s archive – research and activism.He met Aubrey Walter there, and when they were both back in the UK, they organised the first GLF meeting at LSE in October 1970. Bob Mellors, a student at LSE, was in the States during the summer of 1970 and became involved in the New York GLF. A new catalyst for change came in 1969 with the Stonewall Riots in New York and the start of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). The Sexual Offences Act was a small step on the road to equality. Albany Trust was another campaigning organisation which had an important educational and counselling role.Tony Dyson (left) and Antony Grey (right) Antony Grey became the Chair of the Homosexual Law Reform Society in 1963 and spearheaded the organisation through a crucial period of reform.Tony Dyson co-founded the Homosexual Law Reform Society in 1958.Key figures and organisations in this campaign were: Now same-sex acts in England and Wales were legal provided they were consensual, in private, and between two men who were 21 or over. This ended with the Sexual Offences Act in 1967. A small lobbying movement formed to campaign for these changes in law. In 1957, the Wolfenden Report proposed that homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should not be a criminal offence. We hold many lesbian magazines such as Shebang, Artemis and Sequel and information newsletters from the Lesbian Information Centre.Pat Arrowsmith – Pat is a pacifist, poet, artist and the first lesbian to come out in Who’s Who in 1976 and contributed to a book about lesbians We’re Here in the following year.įind out more: Pat Arrowsmith’s archive at LSE – “I feel guilty for not trying to escape from all of my prison sentences”. Lesbians in Libraries worked with women’s publishing houses such as Sheba Press , OnlyWomen Press and Black Women Talk to ensure that lesbian literature was made available in public libraries in the 1980s.Papers relating to this group and a run of its newsletter ‘Arena Three’ can be found in Mary McIntosh's archive.įind out more: Mary McIntosh’s archive – research and activism. The Minorities Research Group, founded in 1963, was the first lesbian group in the UK. ![]() Her lesbian relationships can be pieced together from photographs, a poem and an inventory. Vera ‘Jack’ Holme, cross-dressing actress, chauffeur, suffragette. Read about the history of the Hall-Carpenter Archives. Radclyffe Hall (left) and Edward Carpenter (right) It was named in honour of pioneers Radclyffe Hall and Edward Carpenter but there is very little relating to them in the archive. “Can I give you my number? Maybe you could shoot me a text if you want to go out sometime.The Hall-Carpenter Archives is a large LGBT collection that came to LSE Library in the late 1980s.“Maybe we could exchange numbers and go out some time?”.“Do you think I could get your number? I’d love to text you later.”.Even if you had a nice conversation, they may not want to move things further. Prepare yourself for the eventuality that some guys may say "no" when you ask to exchange numbers.This makes you come across more genuinely interested and it gives folks who might be wary of handing out their number an out: if they don’t want to text you, they don’t have to. Better yet, ask him if he’d like your number.Just make sure you keep talking once you have his number so you don't give him the impression you view flirting as an endgame. Ask him out for coffee, ask him to go dancing. No need to dance around the topic or make a big deal about it. ![]()
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