Crawley
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Crawley is a town in West Sussex. The borough includes Gatwick Airport.
LGBT history
There is a Crawley LGBT Group.[1]
There was a Crawley CHE Group in the 1970s. Gay News at the start of 1976 reported that police had warned gays in Crawley about the group! [2].
In 1986 the TV programme 'Facing South' discussed AIDS in the south of England. The programme included an interview with the mother of a young man called Kevin Cristy [3].
The Hindu temple in Ifield welcomes marriages by same-sex couples.
References
- ↑ http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/Hotspots/GayGuide-action-Page-pageid-4207.html
- ↑ Gay News issue 86 'Police warning to gay Crawley'
- ↑ Broadcast on TVS 31 January 1986. Cristy died 12 weeks before the programme was broadcast. His mother told the programme she could not even get a commode for her son
