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Highbury

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the former Highbury Stadium

Highbury is a district within the London Borough of Islington. The former Arsenal football stadium was a local landmark, and has now been partly converted to housing.

LGBT history

There was a Highbury and Islington CHE Group in the 1970s.

David Starkey and his partner have a house in the area.[1]

Highbury Fields has been a known gay cruising area.

References

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  1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3669985/David-Starkey-A-man-with-a-past.html "David Starkey: A man with a past" by John Preston Telegraph 16 December 2007