Leigh
Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire).
LGBT history
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was educated at the local Grammar School.[1]
In 1965 the local paper, the Leigh Reporter, covered Allan Horsfall's campaigning work with a full-width front-page article.[2]
References
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- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/jun/19/classicalmusicandopera.proms2004 Stephen Moss, "Sounds and silence" The Guardian 2 November 2009
- ↑ David Dutton, ‘Homosexuals and the Law’, Leigh Reporter, 6 February 1965, quoted in Peter Scott-Presland, Diverse Performances, Chapter 2