SLAGO

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SLAGO (The Surrey and London Association of Gay Organisations) is an umbrella group encompassing a number of LGBT groups in central and south London. The SLAGO Liaison Committee meets about once a quarter, to plan future events.

SLAGO member groups as of August 2021 are:

• CAGS (Croydon Area Gay Society)
• CHE (Campaign for Homosexual Equality)

• SLG (South London Gays)

Activities

SLAGO maintains a list of forthcoming events of interest to its member groups – see http://www.slago.org.uk/slago-diary.shtml – and organises special events such as the annual trip to Brighton in May, and for a number of years the Purley Garden Party in August. The groups compete in a variety of contests for the SLAGO Cup, awarded annually from 1982 onwards.

Membership of SLAGO entitles each group to its own website, provided by SLAGO, if it doesn't have one already.

Origins

SLAGO was formed in 1981, initially as SAGO (Surrey Area Gay Organisations).

Member groups at the outset were:

• Croydon CHE Group
• GAGS
• KRAGS
• South Bank Poly Gaysoc
• WAGS

Other early member groups included:

• South London MCC
• Croydon Area Gay Youth

Former member groups

The following groups were members at some time between 1997 and 2002:

• Croydon Area Gay Youth (CAGY)
• Croydon Friend
• Guildford Area Gay Society (GAGS)
• Hiking Dykes
• Kingston and Richmond Area Gay Society (KRAGS)
• Libertines
• LMG (London Monday Group)
• Magnet
• Pimpernel
• Redhill Area Gay Society (RAGS)
• Sunday-at-Two

The following were also members as at April 2013:

• Allegro Music Group
• Bromley Gay and Bisexual Men's Group
• LMG
• Merton LGBT Forum
• Metropolitan Community Church, South London
• Sutton LGBT Forum

The LGCM London Fellowship (3F) wasa member until it ceased operations in 2021.

Conferences

SLAGO at one time held conferences. The last of these was held at the Bread and Roses, Clapham in 1999. There were 35 delegates, representing the following 16 groups:

• Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE)
• Croydon Area Gay Society (CAGS)
• Croydon Friend
• Croydon Lesbian and Gay Forum (CL&GF)
• Kingston and Richmond Area Gay Society (KRAGS)
• Lewisham Gay Alliance (LGA)
• Libertines
• London Monday Group (LMG)
• Marylebone and Paddington Group (Marypad)
• North London Gay and Lesbian Association
• Pimpernel
• Pinks Down South
• Polari
• Redhill Area Gay Society (RAGS)
• Sunday-at-Two
• South London Gays (SLG)

External links

• http://www.slago.org.uk (no longer in use at 4 February 2024)