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London Raiders Softball Team http://www.londonraiders.co.uk<br> | London Raiders Softball Team http://www.londonraiders.co.uk<br> | ||
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Revision as of 16:35, 26 February 2012
Jonathan Harbourne is the co-chair of London 2018, the bid to host the Gay Games/Out Games in London in 2018. Jonathan’s fellow co-chair is Suran Dickson. He sits on the steering committee for the National LGBT Sports Network (UK). Jonathan founded the London Raiders softball club, now the largest softball club in the world, soon after he moved to London in 1999, and more recently, the London Gay Bikers (motorcycle) club on Facebook, which meets at the Eagle London bar on the second Thursday of the month. He founded the LGBT History Project (UK) in May 2011.
Jonathan was art director at Chronos Publishing, who published Pink Paper and Boyz, from 1994-1996, and he personally published The Back Pocket Guide to London.
From 2000-2003 Jonathan ran the web site Fired up for Snow which campaigned for a Gay Winter Games and attracted over 200,000 unique visitors over its lifetime, though there is still no World Gay Winter Games.
From 2000-2009 Jonathan volunteered for charity GMFA in their training groups and facilitated HIV intervention workshops including The Arse Class. Jonathan was a keynote speaker at the HMRC's LGB and Trans annual conference at Biz, Whitehall in May 2010.
Jonathan is the co-chair of his global financial firm's LGBT Affinity Network, a member of Interbank Forum. Currently Jonathan is working on establishing The National LGBT Volunteers Network (UK) and a national fundraising Programme for LGBT initiatives. He is also a trustee and marketing director of The London Chorus (formerly The London Choral Society).
External links
Gay Games/Outgames bid http://www.london2018.info
http://www.LGBThistoryUK.org
The London Chorus http://www.londonchorus.org.uk
National LGBT Volunteers Network (work in progress) http://www.vgl.org.uk
National LGBT Sports Network http://uksportsnetwork.org.uk
London Raiders Softball Team http://www.londonraiders.co.uk
London Gay Bikers https://www.facebook.com/groups/5847431706/
Jonathan Harbourne in the news (Gay Star News) http://www.gaystarnews.com/topics/Jonathan%20Harbourne
