EGG - Ealg Gay Group | AcronymAttic

Contents:

• EALG GAY GROUP
• MENTAL HEALTH ISSU IF YOU'RE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUALINFORMATN PROVID BY
• EALG GAY & LBIAN ORGANISATNS
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• MENTAL HEALTH ISSU IF YOU'RE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUALINFORMATN PROVID BY

EALG GAY GROUP

Ealg Gay Group (EGG) is a social group for gay men livg and around Ealg. The members of the group create a iendly and fortable atmosphere at events where gay men n gather and relax — meetg new people and makg iends. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month is celebrated globally each year the month of June to mark the 1969 Stonewall Rts, a seri of monstratns which were rried out by members of the LGBTQ+ muny rponse to a police raid which occurred at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, New York.

The purpose of Pri Month is to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals have had on history lolly, natnally and ternatnally.

MENTAL HEALTH ISSU IF YOU'RE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUALINFORMATN PROVID BY

Though her sexualy was an open secret to the gay muny, the fact that Sprgfield was relatnships wh women, is not mon knowledge today thanks part to the legacy of homophobia that left proment queer figur nstant fear of beg outed. ‘People say that I’m gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay.

Later life, Sprgfield beme a mp in, attractg gay fans and drag impersonators.

EALG GAY & LBIAN ORGANISATNS

Charl Ashbee was a gay man at a time when homosexualy was illegal the UK.

He is believed to have been a member of a number of groups that provid support and unrstandg to LGBTQ+ people, as well as beg a member the Orr of Chaeronea which was a secret male domated society for homosexuals found by the poet Gee Iv 1897 as a rult of his belief that LGBTQ+ people would not be accepted openly society and therefore mt have a means of unrground munitn. Febary is LGBT+ History Month, celebratg the liv and experienc of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people and promotg equaly and diversy.

Although two London stunts found Gay Liberatn 1970, very ltle is rerd about gay and lbian people lolly until the 1980s. That said, the lol newspaper advertised a gay helple 1975.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

There is no fe date when Ealg’s first gay club was found but, 1987, one had existed for some time, the Ealg Gay Associatn, and s chairman was Peter Knight.

Ealg’s first gay youth club was found 1987. It was lled ELAGY (Ealg Lbian and Gay Youth). In 1988 Ealg Council began to promote gay rights, ntrast to s attu 1979 when banned gay magaz appearg s librari.

The uncil published booklets and brochur and sometim fund social events aimed at gay people. It argued that was promotg equaly not homosexualy as s opponents claimed. The first known gay and lbian march Ealg took place 1990.

MENTAL HEALTH ISSU IF YOU'RE GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUALINFORMATN PROVID BY

This was om Elthorne Park to Ealg Town Hall to prott agast the unsolved murr of gay actor Michael Boothe which had occurred the park. Well-known mpaigner Peter Tatchell addrsed the rally to say that the police vtigatn was aquate and that gay people were not given the full protectn of the law.

Ealg North MP Harry Greenaway was opposed to the uncil spendg money on what he saw as homosexualy beg promoted schools. Likewise, fellow Acton uncillor John Gallagher, chairman of Ealg Gay and Lbian Workg Party 1986, was a proment figure the movement. There have been lol exampl of homophobia.

In 1968 two men attacked another man bee they thought he was gay.