HARINGEY A LEGACY OF LGBTQ+ ACTIVISM

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Homosexuality decriminalised Gay rights included in the Positive Images organises Bernie Grant, MP for On 23rd May, the night Wood Green arts charity The equalisation of the age UK’s Adoption and Children Section 28 is repealed. The T-shirt Haringey GIRES (Gender Identification MP for Hornsey and Wood Subodh Rathod and Haringey begins work to Haringey Vanguard, an in the UK. Labour Party’s manifesto. a march in support of , becomes the before Section 28 becomes Wise Thoughts is established of consent is enacted for Act allowed same-sex protester Booan Temple Research and Education Green, Lynne Featherstone Niranjan Kamatkar become make the council a more archiving project focussed Haringey is one of 10 Haringey’s gay and lesbian first MP to voice opposition law, four protesters, including to address social justice gay men nationwide. couples to adopt. wore when she stormed Society) is set up to improve is widely hailed as the the first gay couple to marry LGBT+ friendly place, with on the histories of Black, councils to donate more community. 3000 people to Section 28, which is Haringey’s Booan Temple, issues and the needs of the BBC is displayed as part the environment in which architect of the bill that in Haringey and the first gay support from Stonewall. Asian and ethnic minority than £600,000 to gay take part. brought in a year later. storm the BBC 6 O’Clock Haringey’s BME LGBT of Bruce Castle’s From the gender non-conforming brings same-sex marriage to Indian couple to marry in LGBTQ+ communities in the projects and groups. news, handcuff themselves communities. Closet to the Collection: people live. and Wales. the UK under new marriage borough, is launched. The book Jenny lives with Positive Images and to equipment, and shout Haringey LGBT Exhibition. equality legislation. Eric and Martin, about a girl Haringey Black Action ‘Stop section 28’. living with her dad and his organise the first partner, sparks protests on demonstration in the UK to the streets of Wood Green, highlight the stories of black as local parents complain lesbians and gay men. about gay rights.