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Revision as of 22:35, 20 July 2013
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”.
1996
- 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”.
1997
- 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.
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
January 1999: Peter Tatchell on a new approach to straight and queer liberation.
February 1999: Two representatives from Streetwise Youth on its role as a support organisation for male prostitutes.
March 1999: Two speakers spoke about DELGA (the Lib-Dem lesbian and gay group).
May 1999: Alistair Pegg, editor of the Pink Paper, on the role of the gay press.
June 1999: Terry Sanderson led a discussion about gay attitudes to religion.
July 1999: Dennis Candy from the Western Buddhist Order on Buddhism and Sexuality.
September 1999: Siobhain McDonagh, MP for Mitcham and Morden, on gay rights and other issues in Parliament.
October 1999: Psychotherapist Abé Duré on 'Sex addiction – the Secret Condition'.
November 1999: Liza Dresner on The Food Chain – Feeding the fight against HIV and AIDS.
December 1999: Peter Robins reminisced about his long career in BBC current affairs.
2000
2001
- November 2001: a speaker from the Quaker Gay and Lesbian Fellowship.
2002
- 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’.
See also
The Brief Encounter (Croydon) - list of speakers at Croydon Area Gay Society.
References
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