AIDS has certainly been subject to some extraordinary media distortions and deceit over the years. It’s usually the tabloid press (with special merit to Rupert Murdoch’s publications) that have produced the greatest amount of offensive rubbish. So it came as … Continue reading →
The recent movie Pride has done much to raise awareness of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM); a group of queer men and women who raised funds for striking miners during the 1984/85 National Miners Strike. But this month … Continue reading →
On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most visionary speeches of the 20th century. Before a crowd of 250,000 assembled for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the civil rights leader issued a … Continue reading →
Today is the 290th anniversary of the first documented (but little-known) queer fightback. On December 28th, 1725 – 244 years before Stonewall – some 30 men resisted a raid by ‘Peace Officers’ on a Molly House in Hart Lane, Covent … Continue reading →
On December 17th, 1986, police raided the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, a long-established gay pub in South London. In the course of the raid, police seized boxes of amyl nitrite (“poppers”). The landlord, Pat McConnon, and various members of his staff … Continue reading →