Over the festival weekend, I’m launching Amiable Warriors, the history of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). Founded in 1964 as the North West local committee of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, CHE mutated over the next few years into the largest LGBT organisation this country has ever known.
The Lesbian & Gay Foundation (LGF) are organising a tribute and celebration in honour of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the modern gay… Read More »Manchester Celebrates 50 Years of Homosexual History
Sharley MacLean, veteran lesbian activist and member of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality has died peacefully at the age of 90.
Peter Pressland of CHE and Peter Tatchell pay tribute to a campaigning legend
One of the most long-standing LGBT activists in the UK has died at the age of 82. He was a founder of the world’s oldest… Read More »Michael Brown Dies
Allan Horsfall, one of the founding fathers of the modern Lesbian and Gay Rights (LGBT) Movement, will be remembered at an all-day event in Manchester… Read More »Allan Horsfall Remembered
Allan was arguably the grandfather of the modern gay rights movement in Britain. He was first active for gay law reform in the late 1950s.… Read More »Allan Horsfall. An Obituary by Peter Tatchell
