Stonewall, the most well-known campaigning group.Peter Tatchell, a well-known campaigner for LGBT+ rights, and a founding member of the campaigning group OutRage!.Prominent collections relating to legislative changes since 1997 include: Gay London Police Monitoring Group (GALOP) was set up to improve relations between gay people and the police.We have many collections that relate to HIV / AIDS including Simon Watney, Peter Tatchell and Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. The backlash coincided with the onset of AIDS.GLC Gay Rights Working Party - Newspapers campaigned against ‘loony left’ councils such as the Greater London Council who promoted progressive gay and lesbian policies.The era of Margaret Thatcher’s government is renowned by activists as a time when the establishment fought against gay rights. Various support groups such as FRIEND (Fellowship for the Relief of the Isolated and Emotionally in Need and Distress).Special interest groups such as Gay Christian Movement, Joint Council for Gay Teenagers and Gay Activists Alliance.
Campaign for Homosexual Equality – founded local groups which offered social activities and support for lesbians and gay men, while campaigning for law reform and full LGBT equality.Our archives contain papers relating to the GLF which you can browse. Find out more about the Gay Liberation Front which held its first meeting at LSE in October 1970.Explore some of these images in our Flickr album, Glad to be Gay.
In 1966, the Beaumont Society began as a social and support group for transgender people and their partners.The magazine dealt with various aspects of lesbianism and tried to break down public prejudices. In the following year, 'Arena Three' was produced by Esme Langley. The first group for lesbians was the Minorities Research Group set up in 1963.Albany Trust - campaigned for decriminalisation of homosexuality and became an educational and counselling organisation.įrom the Pride March 1976, organised mainly by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.Antony Grey - one of the key campaigners.Tony Dyson - instrumental in setting up the Homosexual Law Reform Society in 1958.We hold the archives of key figures and organisations involved in this campaign. The campaign ended with the Sexual Offences Act 1967 which partially decriminalised some sexual acts between males in England and Wales. Becoming legalįollowing the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957, a small lobbying movement formed to bring about changes in the law.
Our collection contains primary source material mainly relating to gay and lesbian rights. The collection is particularly strong for campaigning from the late 1950s to the 1990s. LSE Library’s main LGBT collection is called the Hall-Carpenter Archives in honour of Radclyffe Hall and Edward Carpenter, although there is no material relating to these two people in this archive.įind out more about the history of the Hall-Carpenter Archives at the LSE History blog.