Louis Eaks
Louis Eaks (born 1946) was a leading member of the Young Liberals, serving as its chairman for 1969–70. He later became a political journalist. With Peter Hain, he set up the Stop The Seventy Tour campaign against the South African cricket tour.[1]
In 1970 he was arrested for importuning on Highbury Fields during a police entrapment exercise. He claimed that he was heterosexual, and had merely been asking someone for a light. The arrest provoked the Gay Liberation Front's first ever demonstration, which took place at Highbury Fields on 27 November 1970.[2]. Eaks was convicted and fined £60 (with £30 costs).
The following year Eaks was again in court. On 19 April 1971 he was convicted at Lambeth Magistrates Court of gross indecency in Hyde Park and fined £100 [3]. His address at the tie was given as Pyrland Road, Islington.
Louis Eaks died of an AIDS-related illness in the early 1990s.[4]
The spelling of his name as "Eaks" is attested for instance in his authorship of a book, From El Salvador to the Libyan Jamahiriya: A Radical Review of American Foreign Policy under the Reagan Administration (1988)[5] but it is often misquoted as "Eakes", for instance in No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles.
References
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- ↑ http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=15570
- ↑ Lisa Power, No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles, pp 28–31.
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post 20 April 1971
- ↑ Lisa Power, No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles, Appendix 4.
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/El-Salvador-Libyan-Jamahiriya-Administration/dp/B000ITU9XG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410273596&sr=1-1