Suffolk

Suffolk districts:
1 Ipswich
2 East Suffolk
3 Mid Suffolk
4 Babergh
6 West Suffolk

Suffolk is a county in East Anglia. It contains five local government districts. 1n 2019 the former districts of Suffolk Coastal and Waveney were merged to form East Suffolk, and Forest Heath and St Edmundsbury were merged to form West Suffolk,

Prior to 1974 the county was administered by separate county councils for East Suffolk and West Suffolk, both covering larger areas than the current districts with the same names.

The county has its own police force, Suffolk Constabulary.

LGBT History

The Suffolk LGB&T Network was founded in 1988, and evolved from the Suffolk Gay and Lesbian Helpline.

The Pride in Suffolk’s Past project, set up in 2020 and hosted by Suffolk Archives, has two aims: To explore and share the hidden stories of LGBTQ+ people in Suffolk’s past, and to collect contemporary stories of Suffolk’s LGBTQ+ community, documenting people’s experiences through a period of monumental societal change towards sexuality and gender identity .