Tower Hamlets Council has been rightly praised by the lik of Stonewall for s gay-iendly workplace polici. However, the uncil is not the borough. The area around Spalfields and the Shoredch boundary is home to a growg and vibrant gay scene, but there is also a dark si. Acrdg to figur om the Met Police,…
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT)
- PROPERTY VELOPER FUNDS POP-UP GAY BAR AS NDN OF PLANNG PERMISSN
- THE ALIENATN BEHD GAY HATE CRIM
- CALLS TO SAVE TOWER HAMLETS PUB AMATR GAY STRIP NIGHT
- RINTS TACKLE EAST END "GAY EE ZONE" STICKERS
- MET POLICE ACCED OF VICTIM BLAMG FOR WARNG GAY PEOPLE TO AVOID DIMLY L AREAS AND LOUD MIC
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT)
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Tower Hamlets Lbian, Gay Campaign Group (THLGG) 1980s.
Wh the spir of the rabow the air, Tower Hamlets lols set up the Tower Hamlets Lbian, Gay Campaign Group (THLGG) the mid 1980s. In May 1988, Margaret Thatcher’s ernment announced the anti-gay Clse 28, which banned lol thori om the ‘promotn of homosexualy’. Librari weren’t the only plac to fy the ernments anti-gay mpaign.
11, which tght homosexualy as sex tn. This clud a rource gui to materials about homosexualy, cludg lbian and gay lerature for e by teachers and librarians sendary schools and further tn lleg. Erasure performg their set list at London’s 1995’s Gay Pri at Victoria Park, Saturday 24 June 2022.
PROPERTY VELOPER FUNDS POP-UP GAY BAR AS NDN OF PLANNG PERMISSN
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In , he tailed the sizeable gay populatn East London. He also noted how his article ‘propos some ways which the gay prence the borough uld ntribute to the regeneratn procs’.
THE ALIENATN BEHD GAY HATE CRIM
London’s longt-nng amatr gay strip ntt fac beg banned as a rult of Tower Hamlet uncil’s sex tablishment nsultatn. * tower hamlets gay *
Sectn 28 (formerly known as Clse 28) of the Lol Government Act 1988 imposed a legal ban on the promotn of homosexualy by lol thori and by schools and librari. The threat of Sectn 28 lnched the gay rights movement Bra to actn.
Explore rerds of Tower Hamlets Lbian and Gay Campaign Group, an anisatn which was formed rponse to the legislatn:. Issu 1-3 of 'Out East: Newsletter of Tower Hamlets Lbian and Gay Campaign Group', 1989-1990 (reference: LC9012). Tower Hamlets Lbian and Gay Campaign Group created the Pk Postrd Prott.
Campaigners feared Sectn 28 banned lol uncils, schools and librari om havg any lerature featurg gay people. When Sectn 28 beme law Tower Hamlets’ Central Library produced the Library’s Gay and Lbian Booklist (see reference: LC12596). This clared that the books were not a ‘remend list…simply tails of over sixty tl wh gay and lbian them’.
CALLS TO SAVE TOWER HAMLETS PUB AMATR GAY STRIP NIGHT
A group of East End rints spread "msag of love" to tackle stickers that have appeared their area llg for to be a "gay ee zone". * tower hamlets gay *
'Posive Imag: a rourc gui to materials about homosexualy, cludg lbian and gay lerature for e by teachers and librarians sendary schools and further tn lleg', 1986.
RINTS TACKLE EAST END "GAY EE ZONE" STICKERS
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'Prohibn on promotg homosexualy by teachg or by publishg material', by The Library Associatn, 1988.
A property veloper has promised to pay £100, 000 to fund a “pop-up LGBT+ bar” to give Londoners an clive place to meet durg the moln and revelopment of a popular gay Joers Arms Tower Hamlets was an stutn, attractg a host of famo nam among s regulars, cludg Alexanr McQueen, Ruf Wawright and Sir Ian McKellen, before was bought and closed by the veloper Regal London said regnised the pa and tratn the six-year lay revelopg the se had ed the LGBTQ+ muny, and was offerg the money so that a new bar uld open as soon as is believed to be the first time that a property veloper has offered to pay the st of settg up a temporary gay bar as a ndn of securg planng permissn. ”John Sizzle, -owner of nearby gay bar The Glory, said: “The protectn of our queer spac is an ongog necsy. At the sendary boys' school I went to the East London borough of Tower Hamlets, anyone who took an tert learng or attemptg to achieve anythg amilly was labelled "gay".
MET POLICE ACCED OF VICTIM BLAMG FOR WARNG GAY PEOPLE TO AVOID DIMLY L AREAS AND LOUD MIC
The Met Police has been acced of "victim blamg" for warng gay people to avoid "dim" areas followg the murr of Ranjh Kankanamalage. * tower hamlets gay *
The relative homogeney of the place meant that stunts had very ltle chance to meet people om different they hurled homophobic abe at each other, was not reference to a person's perceived sexualy (which most would not have known about anyway). Verbal homophobic bullyg was one of very few ways one was able to do how did this relatively nocuo name-llg scend to the suatn where 47 attacks agast gay people were reported to the police this borough last year? "But regardls of the public posturg by Galloway and other lol lears, the suatn has reached such a level that the police felt necsary recently to hold a meetg wh the borough's gay and lbian muny to discs the issue.
Homophobic attacks are not jt nfed to this part of London. 5% rise crim motivated by homophobia across London.