Ian Townson

Ian Townson (born 1950) is a gay campaigner, active during the 1970s. He was born and raised in Lancaster, escaping homophobic persecution in the mid-1970s to Brixton via Bradford where he met gay liberation activists from London while 'zapping' a conference on psycho-sexual disorders by 'expert' psychologists. He was involved in the South London Gay Commmunity Centre in Brixton.

In 2006 he deposited some of his papers with the Hall-Carpenter Archives but other papers are in the Bishopsgate Institute .

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