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This article is about the former group in London. For the current group in Manchester, see Icebreakers Manchester.

Icebreakers was a support group for gay men and lesbians. It was founded in 1973, and ran until about 1984 from premises in Brixton ^[1].Icebreakers ran a disco at the Hemingford Arms in London every Friday evening in the early 1980s ^[2]. Antony Grey (1992) states that Icebreakers was 'an offshoot of the GLF (Gay Liberation Front) anti-psychiatry group^[3].

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References

↑ Out of the Shadows, Chapter 15. The start year for Icebreakers is given as 1971 in an article in Mister Vol 3 no 4
↑ Capital Gay 17 July 1981 listings. Admission was 30p. The disco was held upstairs at the pub. A 12 minute audio recording done at the Hemingford Arms at an Icebreakers disco in 1982 is held at the British Library (Catalogue C586/319)
↑ Antony Grey (1992) p 181 Quest for Justice; Towards Homosexual Emancipation (Sinclair-Stevenson;London) ISBN 1 85619 155 9

[1] Out of the Shadows, Chapter 15. The start year for Icebreakers is given as 1971 in an article in Mister Vol 3 no 4

[2] Capital Gay 17 July 1981 listings. Admission was 30p. The disco was held upstairs at the pub. A 12 minute audio recording done at the Hemingford Arms at an Icebreakers disco in 1982 is held at the British Library (Catalogue C586/319)

[3] Antony Grey (1992) p 181 Quest for Justice; Towards Homosexual Emancipation (Sinclair-Stevenson;London) ISBN 1 85619 155 9

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-'''Icebreakers''' was a support group for gay men and lesbians. It was founded in 1973, and ran until about  1984 from premises in [[Brixton]]  <ref>''[[Out of the Shadows]]'', Chapter 15</ref>.Icebreakers ran a disco at the Hemingford Arms in London every Friday evening in the early 1980s <ref>Capital Gay 17 July 1981 listings. Admission was 30p. The disco was held upstairs at the pub. A 12 minute audio recording done at the Hemingford Arms at an Icebreakers disco in 1982 is held at the British Library (Catalogue C586/319) </ref>. Antony Grey (1992) states that Icebreakers was 'an offshoot of the GLF ([[Gay Liberation Front]]) anti-psychiatry group''<ref> Antony Grey (1992) p 181 Quest for Justice; Towards Homosexual Emancipation (Sinclair-Stevenson;London) ISBN 1 85619 155 9 </ref>.
+'''Icebreakers''' was a support group for gay men and lesbians. It was founded in 1973, and ran until about  1984 from premises in [[Brixton]]  <ref>''[[Out of the Shadows]]'', Chapter 15. The start year for Icebreakers is given as 1971 in an article in Mister Vol 3 no 4 </ref>.Icebreakers ran a disco at the Hemingford Arms in London every Friday evening in the early 1980s <ref>Capital Gay 17 July 1981 listings. Admission was 30p. The disco was held upstairs at the pub. A 12 minute audio recording done at the Hemingford Arms at an Icebreakers disco in 1982 is held at the British Library (Catalogue C586/319) </ref>. Antony Grey (1992) states that Icebreakers was 'an offshoot of the GLF ([[Gay Liberation Front]]) anti-psychiatry group''<ref> Antony Grey (1992) p 181 Quest for Justice; Towards Homosexual Emancipation (Sinclair-Stevenson;London) ISBN 1 85619 155 9 </ref>.
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