Gay Activists Alliance

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 . GAA got involved in a number of left-wing political causes. It overlapped with much of the moribund Gay Liberation Front. In 1979 the GAA distributed a leaflet supporting pedophilia at the CHE conference. 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)

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

GAA Leaflet in the Hall Carpenter Archives