London Lesbian and Gay Centre

Programme of events at the LLG&C for September 1986

The London Lesbian and Gay Centre was a lesbian and gay community centre located at 67–69 Cowcross Street, London.[1] It was established in 1985 by the Greater London Council (GLC), which donated three-quarters of a million pounds to its establishment.[2][3]

In 1984 The GLC published Changing The World – a charter of gay rights and supported a number of open meetings in the council chamber of County Hall during that summer.[4] These resulted in the creation of a working group to create one of the few LGBT community centres in the UK, after Edinburgh Gay Centre which opened in 1974, Manchester Gay Centre on Bloom Street (1981)[5] and the Birmingham Lesbian and Gay Community Centre which had opened in 1976.[6] The group included Brian Kennedy, Revd Richard Kirker, Helen Carr, Helen Jenkins, Alison Wheeler, Jaci Quennell, Jennifer Wilson and Lisa Power amongst many others.[4]

  1. ^ The global emergence of gay and lesbian politics: national imprints of a worldwide movement, Barry D. Adam, Jan Willem Duyvendak, André Krouwel; Temple University Press, 1999, pages 135–154.
  2. ^ Adam, Barry D.; Jan Willem Duyvendak; André Krouwel (1999). The global emergence of gay and lesbian politics: national imprints of a worldwide movement. Temple University Press. p. 154. ISBN 9781439901533.
  3. ^ Zimmerman, Bonnie; George Haggerty (1999). Encyclopedia of lesbian and gay histories and cultures, Volume 1. Taylor & Francis. p. 477. ISBN 9780815333548.
  4. ^ a b Radical records: thirty years of lesbian and gay history, 1957–1987, by Bob Cant, Susan Hemmings, Taylor & Francis, 1988, page 139-155.
  5. ^ "Press - Manchester Gay Centre, 61a Bloom Street, 1985".
  6. ^ Knowles, Jeremy (2009), An Investigation into the Relationship Between Gay Activism and the Establishment of a Gay Community in Birmingham, 1967–97 (PDF), Birmingham: University of Birmingham, p. 24, retrieved 2 July 2011