elop : : holistic lbian and gay centre

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• IS A HOLISTIC LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE THAT OFFERS A RANGE OF SOCIAL, EMOTNAL AND SUPPORT SERVIC TO LGBT MUNI, AND OUR RE SERVIC CLU UNSELLG AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S SERVIC. WE N ALSO OFFER TRAG AND NSULTANCY FOR FELLOW PROFSNALS AND THOSE SEEKG TO ENHANCE THEIR UNRSTANDG OF ISSU FACG LGBTMUNI.
• REMEMBERG THE 1980S UK LBIAN AND GAY CENTER THAT DIED TOO SOON
• THE BLACK LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE
• LONDON LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• GREENWICH LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE 1986

IS A HOLISTIC LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE THAT OFFERS A RANGE OF SOCIAL, EMOTNAL AND SUPPORT SERVIC TO LGBT MUNI, AND OUR RE SERVIC CLU UNSELLG AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S SERVIC. WE N ALSO OFFER TRAG AND NSULTANCY FOR FELLOW PROFSNALS AND THOSE SEEKG TO ENHANCE THEIR UNRSTANDG OF ISSU FACG LGBTMUNI.

We are an excg novative lbian and gay mental health chary based East London. ELOP was tablished around 1995 as a grassroots veloped and muny-led anisatn wh the aim to promote the mental health, wellbeg, empowerment and equaly of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) muni. Many of the closed venu, such as the London Lbian and Gay Centre and the Joer's Arms, played ccial rol anisg queer ristance movements.

Beyond a place to exhib and support LGBTQ+ artists, Joer hop that the venue will functn as a safe space for the queer muny durg a time of risg homophobic and transphobic hate crim: a recent Stonewall report found that two five trans people Bra had to al wh a hate crime or cint the past 12 months. The Black Lbian and Gay Centre. The Gay Liberatn Front held s first meetg a basement classroom at LSE 1970.

REMEMBERG THE 1980S UK LBIAN AND GAY CENTER THAT DIED TOO SOON

It had a short life and s wake, numero gay and lbian groups emerged. Here, Curator Gillian Murphy troduc the Black Lbian and Gay Centre south London. LSE Library holds the Hall-Carpenter Archiv, which ntas the papers of gay activists and anisatns, ephemera and related journals.

THE BLACK LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE

One such group is the Black Lbian and Gay Centre south London. Durg the early 1980s, black lbian and gay groups Bra began to emerge, such as the Gay Black Group.

LONDON LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE

They faced homophobia, racism and, for women, sexism. The Greater London Council (GLC), led by Ken Livgstone, had progrsive gay and lbian polici and was keen to award grants to projects which supported mory groups.

In 1982 the Gay Black Group approached the GLC to requt fundg for a centre which would provi advice and unsellg, a helple, a library and other rourc. The Black Lbian and Gay Centre received GLC fundg 1985 and was open to all lbians and gay men.

Blackout, a black lbian and gay magaze, prted s first issue 1986 providg a fom for the many black gay and lbian groups that had emerged London. ⁠⁠They were prottg over the age of nsent as, 1992, UK laws treated nsensual sex between gay men unr 21 as a crimal offence.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Lbian Strength March, 19 June 1982 - held the weekend before the annual Lbian and Gay Pri march. Among the objects and ephemera are prott banners, ed the mpaign agast Sectn 28; a tncheon seized at a mo by Mark Ashton, founr of Lbians and Gays Support the Mers; a poster promotg the UK's first natnal nference of black gay men; and a wealth of badg bearg slogans and movements om 'Gays Agast Nazis' to 'Lbians Igne'. Photos clu those of young queer people relishg the LGBTQ+ London scene, spe of a Tory ernment that was brazenly homophobic.

(Then-prime mister Margaret Thatcher said that teachg children about gay culture 'cheated them of a sound start life' — yik. On 31 October 1987, the UK saw s first ever natnal nference of black gay men.

Unr the tle In This Our Liv, the event foced on black lbian and gay history, fears and prejudice wh the black muny, spirualy, bisexualy and health issu. Organised by the London Black Lbian and Gay Centre, was held at Hampn Communy Centre north London and was attend by men om across the UK cludg Manchter, Leeds, Leicter and Bristol. Talks, nversatns and films acpany the exhibs, cludg a screeng of the landmark gay sex ed documentary, The Gay Man’s Gui to Safer Sex, followed by a discsn wh producer Tony Carne and film curator Sela Robson (1 March).

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Volunteers om the London Lbian & Gay Swchboard drs as the Village People for a fundraiser event held at Heaven nightclub, 27 May, 1982.

GREENWICH LBIAN AND GAY CENTRE 1986

Flyers om LGBTQ+ club nights datg om the 1980s onwards cludg GAY, Popstarza and Heaven. Swchboard smock Mobile phone outf ed by London Lbian & Gay Swchboard staff and volunteers for events and other promotnal activi. The tncheon pictured was seized by Mark Ashton of LGSM (Lbians and Gays Support the Mers) on the picket le of the News Internatnal dispute (1986/7) Photo: Chris and Betty Birch Archive, Bishopsgate Instute.

Knted doll prented to the ex-chairman of the London Gay Men’s Chos (LGMC) Photo: London Gay Men’s Chos Archive, Bishopsgate Instute. Hy Park Gays and Sapphics banner, cir 1980s Photo: LGBTQ+ Archiv, Bishopsgate Instute. Lbians, gay men and bisexuals livg ee om discrimatn or disadvantage based on their sexual orientatn.

We lift up LGB people by prervg their history, celebratg their achievements and by workg to create the ndns which lbian, gay and bisexual people n thrive to enjoy happy and fulfilled liv. Follow on om a swim wh a drk at the nearby Kg William IV, one of the cy’s olst gay pubs.