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[[Brian Paddick]] grew up in Sutton and attended the local Grammar School.
 
[[Brian Paddick]] grew up in Sutton and attended the local Grammar School.
  
There was a [[Lesbian]] group that met at the Women's Centre in Palmerston Road <ref> Leaflet undated in the Bishopsgate Institute </ref> [[File:P1270469suttonlesbians.JPG|thumb|left| Leaflet for Lesbian Group (undated) (Bishopsgate Institute Archives)]].
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There was a [[Lesbian]] group that met at the Women's Centre in Palmerston Road <ref> Leaflet undated in the Bishopsgate Institute </ref> [[File:P1270469suttonlesbians.JPG|thumb|left| Leaflet for Lesbian Group (undated) (Bishopsgate Institute Archives) Photo by Dr Clifford Williams]].
  
 
There was briefly a Sutton LGBT Forum ("LGBT in Sutton"): items on its website are dated between 2007 and 2009.<ref>http://lgbt.insutton.org/</ref> It was launched on "Wednesday 26 November" (presumably 2008) at the Robin Hood, West Street, with speakers from Sutton Police, Sutton Council, [[Galop]] and the [[IAG]].<ref>http://www.sutton.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=3475&p=0</ref><ref>http://sutton.moderngov.co.uk/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=11633&Opt=3</ref>
 
There was briefly a Sutton LGBT Forum ("LGBT in Sutton"): items on its website are dated between 2007 and 2009.<ref>http://lgbt.insutton.org/</ref> It was launched on "Wednesday 26 November" (presumably 2008) at the Robin Hood, West Street, with speakers from Sutton Police, Sutton Council, [[Galop]] and the [[IAG]].<ref>http://www.sutton.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=3475&p=0</ref><ref>http://sutton.moderngov.co.uk/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=11633&Opt=3</ref>

Revision as of 12:29, 10 November 2021

Sutton Heritage Mural
The London Borough of Sutton is an outer London Borough in south London. It was formed in 1965 by the merger of three previous local authorities, Sutton and Cheam, Beddington and Wallington, and Carshalton, all of which had previously been part of Surrey.

LGBT history

Brian Paddick grew up in Sutton and attended the local Grammar School.

There was a Lesbian group that met at the Women's Centre in Palmerston Road [1]
Leaflet for Lesbian Group (undated) (Bishopsgate Institute Archives) Photo by Dr Clifford Williams
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There was briefly a Sutton LGBT Forum ("LGBT in Sutton"): items on its website are dated between 2007 and 2009.[2] It was launched on "Wednesday 26 November" (presumably 2008) at the Robin Hood, West Street, with speakers from Sutton Police, Sutton Council, Galop and the IAG.[3][4]

Let me Out (LMO) is/was an LGBT youth group for Sutton and Merton.[5]

SMALL (Sutton Mature And Loving Life) was a group for older LGBT people in Sutton.[6]

A new Sutton LGBT Forum was set up in 2013 by Tyrone Ashby with support from Age UK Sutton.[7]

Elliot Colburn is the member of parliament for Carshalton and Wallington and also a borough councillor.

References

  1. Leaflet undated in the Bishopsgate Institute
  2. http://lgbt.insutton.org/
  3. http://www.sutton.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=3475&p=0
  4. http://sutton.moderngov.co.uk/ieIssueDetails.aspx?IId=11633&Opt=3
  5. http://www.gaysurrey.org/younglinks.htm
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20130717022834/http://www.ageuk.org.uk/sutton/our-services/sutton-lgbt/
  7. http://lgbtsutton.co.uk