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This is a list of the speakers at SLG (South London Gays) meetings.^[1]

South London Gays have been holding meetings almost every month since the group was founded in 1995.

Note: this is a partial list at present; many more entries will be added shortly.

1995

September 1995: Terry Sanderson on “Media Watch”, also the title of his latest book.
October 1995: Peter Tatchell led a discussion on the theme “Equal Rights are not enough; assimilation versus emancipation”.

February 1996: Keith Flett from the Socialist Workers Party on Progress towards Gay Liberation.
April 1996: Mark Watson from Stonewall spoke about their immigration campaign.
May 1996: Members of the Western Buddhist Order spoke on Buddhism.
June 1996: John Randall on “The Formation of Sexuality”.
August 1996: Tony Somerton on “Gay History – Pioneers and Heroes”.
September 1996: John Bratherton on “Life as a Male Prostitute”.

January 1997: Duncan Lustig-Prean from Rank Outsiders on the campaign for the rights of gays in the Military.
February 1997: John Beckley on the role of the Landmark HIV/AIDS support centre in Tulse Hill.
April 1997: Terry Sanderson read from his latest two books.
May 1997: Neil Cavalier-Smith of Prowler Press (with one of his models) on magazine and video publishing.
June 1997: Speakers talked about the notorious “Spanner” case.
July 1997: Keith Hill, MP for Streatham on the plans of the new Labour Government.
September 1997: Author Adam Mars-Jones read from some of his writings.
October 1997: Lynn Sutcliffe and some young actors from the Pink Project Theatre performed extracts from their production Life on the Outside.

February 1998: Chris Morris from Youthspeak on his campaign as a gay teenager to achieve an equal age of consent.

May 1998: Lynn Sutcliffe on her book There must be 50 ways to tell your mother.

July 1998: Alan Day read from his own gay poetry.

August 1998: SLG member Glen McKee on the Gay's the Word trial of 1994, held after customs officers had raided the bookshop and seized its stock.

September 1998: Paul Burston of Time Out read extracts from his new book Queens' Country.

November 1998: Denis Cobell on humanist ceremonies and tradition.

January 2002: Malcolm Reece from the National Secular Society.
February 2002: Michael Brown on an overview of recent gay history.
March 2002: Joan Smith of the Independent on 'Sexuality and Human Rights'.
April 2002: Graham Parker, author of Gay and Lesbian London.
May 2002: Rabbi James Baaden on ‘The Pleasures of Diversity’ - a rabbi’s life in South London.
June 2002 Tony Somerton on 'Tangier in its Heyday' - a gay perspective of Tangier between 1920 and 1960.
July 2002: Dennis Candy on 'Spirituality and Sexuality'.
September 2002: Darren Johnson, Leader of the Green Party group on the Greater London Assembly.
October 2002: Terry Sanderson, the Gay Times columnist, showed a video and led a discussion on ‘50 Years of Gay Liberation’.

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 ==1998==
+January 1998: Rev [[Richard Kirker]] from the [[Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement]].
+February 1998: [[Chris Morris]] from Youthspeak on his campaign as a gay teenager to achieve an equal age of consent.
+April 1998: [[Dave Allen]], chair of the [[Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality]] (TORCHE).
+May 1998: [[Lynn Sutcliffe]] on her book ''There must be 50 ways to tell your mother''.
+July 1998: [[Alan Day]] read from his own gay poetry.
+August 1998: SLG member [[Glen McKee]] on the Gay's the Word trial of 1994, held after customs officers had raided the bookshop and seized its stock.
+September 1998: [[Paul Burston]] of ''Time Out'' read extracts from his new book ''Queens' Country''.
+November 1998: [[Denis Cobell]] on [[humanist]] ceremonies and tradition.
+=1999=
 ==2001==