Ian Buist

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Ian Buist at the CHE AGM 2011
Ian Buist (actually John Latto Farquharson Buist, born 1930) is a gay rights campaigner and former diplomat. After achieving a first in classics at Oxford he joined the diplomatic service and worked in senior positions in Kenya and East Africa.

Buist joined CHE in 1972, rejecting GLF because 'The “GLF” idea of an anti-family, anti-Establishment social revolution seemed to me unlikely to produce change for the better.'[1]

He has continued to contribute to the ongoing campaign for gay rights.

References

  1. http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/BDOHP/Buist.pdf British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, BUIST, John Latto Farquharson (Ian).