Difference between revisions of "Gay Activists Alliance"

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Gay Activists Alliance was a political gay movement based in London in the late 1970s and early 1980s. GAA was formed following protests against the newsagent W H Smith which had refused to stock Gay News in 1978. There was no formal membership but local groups were formed and the London group recorded collective decisions in minutes ^[1]. GAA got involved in a number of left-wing political causes. It overlapped with much of the moribund Gay Liberation Front. GAA also went carol singing outside the home of Mary Whitehouse in Essex.

GAA London on Troops Out March c 1979 (LSE/HCA/Ephemera/1079)

GAA Christmas Card showing group singing outside Mary Whitehouse's home (LSE/HCA)

GAA Leaflet in the Hall Carpenter Archives

References

1. ↑ LSE/HCA/Ephemera/1079. The minutes are all hand written and often scribbled in different coloured ink