Jonathan Harbourne

Jonathan Harbourne

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 in the steering committee for the National LGBT Sports Network (UK). Jonathan is co-chair of his employer’s LGBT affinity network, a global financial institution based in London. Jonathan founded the London Raiders softball club, the largest softball club in Europe, 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 who 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 (UK) National LGBT Volunteers Network 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).