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Contents:

• LBIAN AND GAY NEWSMEDIA ARCHIVE
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
• BLACK LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE
• BISHOPSGATE INSTUTE: 50 YEARS OF THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT

LBIAN AND GAY NEWSMEDIA ARCHIVE

It vers the late neteenth century llectns enpass LGBTQIA+ history polics and culture, wh archiv om Stonewall, Swchboard, GMFA/The Gay Men's Health Chary, Outrage! We also hold rerds of dividuals cludg Paris Le, Sue Sanrs/Schools Out/LGBT History Month and many othersWe’re proud to be ctodians of the Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA). From plards rried at monstratns to never-seen-before photographs documentg London’s gay scene over the past 40 years, the ems drawn om Bishopsgate Instute’s extensive Special Collectns and Archiv prent the stori of dividuals, llectiv and anisatns who fought for social, polil and cultural change.

Prott banners ed their mpaign agast Sectn 28 and a tncheon seized at a monstratn by Mark Ashton, the founr of Lbians and Gays Support the Mers. The exhibn celebrat ems, photographs, artefacts, media and artwork om dividuals and anisatns cludg the Swchboard, Terrence Higgs Tst, GMFA: the Gay Men's Health Chary, the London Lbian and Gay Centre, Ivan Cartwright, Duckie, OutRage!, Stonewall FC, Transfabulo, the London Gay Men's Chos, photographers Robert Workman and Gordon Rasford, and many more.

To plement the exhibn The Curve, Barbin Cema will prent a rare screeng of the landmark gay sex ed documentary, The Gay Man’s Gui to Safer Sex (UK, 1992, dir David Lewis) on 1 March followed by a ScreenTalk wh producer Tony Carne and film curator Sela Robson, who will discs the film’s legacy. Ma associatn wh the Terrence Higgs Tst, when the age of nsent for gay and bi men was 21, The Gay Man’s Gui to Safer Sex was a val sex tnal doc that offered safe sex advice an artistic and unashamedly erotic piece of cema. Participants will clu E-J Stt of the Mm of Transology; Tash Walker of LGBT+ phone helple Swchboard; Sue Sanrs of the ternatnal Ftival of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans History Outg the Past; and LGBTQ+ activists Dan Glass and Faizan of Imaan.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO

Found 1894 as a place for learng, they offer a bewilrg array of urs and events to get people spired and cur about the world, om history to performg and creative arts, languag and also hold one of the UK’s largt llectns of LGBTQ+ archiv, brgg together hundreds and thoands of lerature and ems om gay history.

A wi range of LGBTQ+ urs, talks and tours throughout the year ver every aspect of LGBTQ+ history, society and life, om the history of Gay Swchboard to queer mil theatre, pl creative wrg, film, photography and ArchivWe were lucky enough to meet the lovely Stef and have a tour of the gay archiv of Bishopsgate. The llectn is huge and spirg, cludg the vast Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive – which go back centuri and pulls together an credible range (300, 000 no ls) of newspaper clippgs om the straight prs regardg LGBTQ+ life. The archiv also range om Stonewall, Peter Tatchell, Swchboard and the Rebel Dyk history project, to GMFA/The Gay Men’s Health Chary, Outrage!, the Terrence Higgs Tst, Achill Heel, QX magaze and much are origal gay pri badg, cludg the famo Mary Whehoe “Gay News Fight’s On” badge; there’s a vast llectn of porn (helped along by a Sttish man who offload four trans vans on to the Instute); a special UK Leather and Fetish Archive; and even a bed as part of the Rebel Dyk history project!

They also hold a library of over 10, 000 LGBTQ+ tl, om amic texts to gay pulp fictn, and thoands of magaz, ftival programm, club flyers, T-shirts and n drop anytime to look through the archive, whether for rearch purpos or jt out of cursy – and we strongly suggt that you do. About this ArchiveAdmistrative/bgraphil historyThe Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) is based at Bishopsgate Instute the Cy of London and ho over 200, 000 cuttgs taken om the non-gay prs on all LGBTQ+ matters sce the late Neteenth Century.

BLACK LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE

Whether you are terted the remendatns of the Wolfenn Commtee the 1950s, who wore what and why at the Gateways Club the 1960s, the GLF and The Ftival of Light the 1970s, Clse 28 and the rantg of Jam Anrton the 1980s, pk pounds and gay villag the 1990s or Todd Grimshaw's g out on Coronatn Street the 2000s, if the mastream prs wrote about , we'll have the and ntentWe also have a llectn of over a hundred badg, a selectn of t-shirts and a reference library of several hundred books.

The clu the archive llectns of anisatns such as Stonewall and Outrage, and material relatg to the Terrence Higgs Tst, London Gay Swchboard, Achill Heel magaze and QX magaze. The LGBT llectns at Bishopsgate Library are maly based around the Lbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA). LAGNA nsists primarily of a llectn of an timated 250, 000 prs cuttgs verg all aspects of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans experience om the late neteenth century to the prent.

Skip to ma ntentThe Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) was found by stunts Bob Mellors and Aubrey Walter. It challenged gay people to e out and be visible, while also explorg the means by which they were opprsed by society.

BISHOPSGATE INSTUTE: 50 YEARS OF THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT

For the GLF, gay liberatn was not about law reform, was about a revolutnary change society. Many gay rights anisatns that emerged durg the urse of the 1980s and 1990s would have their re prcipl rooted the work of the manifto digised here is the first what will bee an onle library of key LGBTQ+ texts om the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, held the Special Collectns and Archiv here at the Manifto, 1971GLF Manifto, 1979Further readg our LGBTQ+ CollectnsWhat We Do. Around the same time, a group of black gay men started dog the same.