Interesting bits and pieces, unknown people and events, BADGES!
Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show (1980s)
Left-wing rebel journal
Ian Townson shouting and pointing a finger at someone
Street theatre from Brixton Faeries (1970s)
Brixton Faeries street theatre on Railton Road outside the gay squats.
L-R: Terry Crabtree, Bill Thornycroft, Colin Gleeson, Julian Hows, Peter Bradley
Controversial publication that sparked a backlash from Maragaret Thatcher’s Tory government
The Danish publication that sparked off a hysterical campaign by the Thatcher government against gay parenting. This led to Section 28 of the Local Government Act forbidding the teaching of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship by schools and local authorities
Radical gay liberation counselling group
….and gay women
Boosting pride and self-esteem to counter negativity
A brilliant dissection of gay self-oppression and how to end it
When Gay Pride was much more political
Julian How’s showing the way
The ban played on
Brixton gays fun in the sun
L-R: Stephen Gee, Barry Prothero, Colm clifford, Edwin Henshaw
L-R: Alan Bray, Stephen Gee
Barry Prothero
Relaxing at a riverside country retreat
L-R: Colm Clifford, Paul Coyle
L-R: Colm, Stephen Gee
A sister of perpetual indulgence will help you see the light
The cast rehearsing for a production of Friends of Rio Ritas at the Oval House (1983?)
On our left is Jim MacSweeney and standing is Graham Norton long before his apprearance in Father Ted and fame as a celebrated talk-show host. The rest are unknown.
Gay Pride 1981 Film and video festival
Bruno de Florence, radical gay film maker, jointly organized the first ever Festival of Gay Film and Video for
Gay Pride 1981 with Thomas Mutke. Both were Brixton gay communards
L-R: Thomas and Bruno (early 1980s)
Queers against the cuts fight fascists
Alan Bray and early modern queers
GLF anniversary celebrations
40th anniversary of the Gay Liberation Front (2010)
50th anniversay of the Gay Liberation Front (2020)
L-R: Ted Brown, Andrew Lumsden, Nettie Pollard, Julian Hows
Lesbians, gay men and solidarity with working class strike action
CPGB supported gay rights from 1976
The struggle in Northern Ireland for lesbian and gay rights
Nighthawks (1978)
L-R: Ron Peck, Paul Hallam, co-directors of the film Nighthawks (1978).
Brixton Gays took part in the initial shooting of the film but the scenes were never shown because they were judged to be too radical to fit in to the main narrative.
L-R: Ken Robertson who played a teacher in Nighthawks forced to hide his gay sexuality but he is outed and has to confront the consequences. With Ron Peck
Mr Punch who doesn’t beat up his wife
Ernst Fischer staged artistic events and performances In the gay Community houses and were a huge success
From Bloolips to Quentin Crisp and back again
Betty Bourne, sometimes known as Peter Bourne, founder and mainstay of the Bloolips theatre troupe
Portrait: Bill Thornycroft
Portrait: Terry Crabtree
Union Place Community Resource Centre
Relaunching the gay liberation movement in South London
An attempt to re-establish Gay Liberation activism after the decline of the first wave
People yet to be identified
Caring for each other
Trouble makers and celebrations
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Meaning cruise nuclear missiles not cruisng for alluring sexual liaisons
