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The Film - Queer Walking Tour of Brixton
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Introduction to the purpose of the website and the range of subjects covered
2. Wider Background and History
Covering the wider militant and uncompromisingly radical fight back against exploitation and oppression in which LGBT+ struggles were situated in the 1970s
3. Housing Crisis and Squatting
Homelessness and Alternative ways of living - the squatters response to the housing crisis leading to the establishment of the South London Gay Community Centre
4. Arrival of the Queens of Controversy
The first collective public appearance of radical drag queens in Brixton
Establishment of the South London Gay Liberation Front and early campaigns
First attempt at establishing a Gay Studies Course within the state education system
7. Breaking Ice and Counselling Gay Pride
Icebreakers, a radical left-wing 'counselling' group, were part of the struggle for gay liberation
8. Squatting and the Theft of Private Property
Coming out together: Squatting the first ever Gay Community Centre in the UK
9. Vote for the South London Gay Liberation Front, General Election 1974
Malcolm Greatbanks, our candidate in the General Election, October 1974
10. Dancing Queens, Grapplers, Sewing Bees and Greek Positions
Social activities at the South London Gay Community Centre
11. Hostile Forces and Community Spycops
How the Brixton gay community dealt with violence and police harassment
12. Shebeens Underground, Pearl’s Place
Pearl's illicit drinking establishment for black gay men and white gay friends.
How the media reported the political and social activities at the centre
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15. Eviction and Re-squatting the Gay Centre
Frustrating Lambeth Council's bailiffs. Refurbishment, 'open day' celebrations and tea dance on re-squatting the gay centre
16. Squatting a Gay ‘Community’
The gradual squatting of ten gay community houses on Railton and Mayall Roads with a shared garden
Brixton Faeries produced four or five plays, sketches and cabarets culminating in the recent play 'On Railton Road' which used one of the plays, 'Mr. Punch's Nuclear Family', as the centre piece.
17.1 Mr. Punch’s Nuclear Family
Campaigns undertaken by the South London Gay Liberation Front and jointly with the Gay Activists' Alliance also as the initiators of the National Gay News Defence Committee
18.1 Gay News: Helmut's Cock
18.2 British Medical Association Conference
18.3 Lambeth Council Refuses Grant
18.4 Brady's Bar Bans Lesbians
18.5 Brixton Gays Welcome Anti-Fascists
18.6 The Trial of Jeremy Thorpe
18.7 Brixton Police Station Picket
18.8 Queens in Furs
18.9 Queens Are...
18.10 Sacked For Wearing Gay Badges
18.11 Stefan's Deportation Case
18.12 Brixton Uprising (1981)
18.13 Writers of the 1930's
18.14 Captain Morgan's Rum Campaign
18.15 National Gay News Defence Committee
18.16 WHSmith Campaign
18.17 1979 Gay Pride
18.18 Frank Egan and the 'Meat Cleaver' arrest
18.19 Abolish the Monarchy, save the queens
18.20 International Gay Rights Congress
Audio taped autobiographical transcripts telling the stories of gay men and lesbians who took the plunge and squatted as part of the gay community
Every page of every edition of the radical gay publication Gay Noise
The legacy of the revolting gays: Ian Townson conducts Queer Walking Tours of Brixton, the play 'On Railton Road' and all the other manifestations of this history
22. Intergenerational Activism: What This History Means to a Couple of Trans People Today
Written by Colin Lievens in collaboration with Joe Lawn