London CHE groups

CHE plastic bag with a list of London CHE groups and contact details, issued for London Pride 1979

A number of London CHE Groups were set up during the 1970s. by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. Originally the idea was that each group should be no more than a certain size,and new groups were formed as new members joined CHE in London, without regard to geographical area. Later many of these groups renamed themeselves after an area, starting with Croydon CHE Group (London Group 7).

Some of these groups were listed in Out of the Shadows page 223 as existing in October 1976.

Numbered London Groups

The first CHE groups in London were set up between 1970 and 1972, and were not originally tied to geographical areas.

• London Group 1
• London Group 2
• London Group 3
• London Group 4
• London Group 5
• London Group 6
• London Group 7
• London Group 8
• London Group 9
• London Group 10
• London Group 11
• London Group 12
• London Group 13

From 1973 onwards all the numbered groups were renamed or merged: Groups 1 to 3 amalgamated to form the London West End CHE Group, Group 4 was renamed the Bloomsbury CHE Group, Group 5 became the London CHE Youth Group, also known as the London Student Group or Gay London, Group 6 became the Marylebone and Paddington CHE Group, Group 7 became the Croydon CHE Group, Group 8 became the Piccadilly CHE Group, Group 9 merged with Group 10 which became the London Monday Group, and Groups 11 to 13 amalgamated to form the Central London CHE Group.

Other groups with "London" in the title

• City of London CHE Group
• East London CHE Group
• London Central CHE Group: see Groups 11 to 13
• London Monday Group: see Group 10
• London Shiftworkers CHE Group
• London West End CHE Group (CHEWEG): see Groups 1 to 3
• London Women CHE Group
• CHE London Youth Group: see Group 5
• CHE London Student Group: see Group 5
• North London CHE Group: see Highbury and Islington
• Young London CHE Group: see Group 5

Other groups within Greater London

• Barnet and Brent
• Bexley and Dartford CHE Group
• Bloomsbury CHE Group (Group 4)
• Bromley
• Chiswick
• Croydon CHE Group (Group 7)
• Ealing
• Enfield
• Feltham
• Hampstead
• Haringey
• Harrow
• Highbury and Islington
• Kensington
• Kingston
• Lewisham
• Marylebone and Paddington CHE Group
• Piccadilly CHE Group (Group 8)
• Richmond and Putney
• Southwark-Lambeth
• Stepney
• Streatham
• Surbiton
• Waltham Forest
• Wandsworth-Richmond
• Wembley
• Westminster

See also

List of CHE Groups