The Brief Encounter (Croydon)
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- This article is about the series of meetings in Croydon. For the bar in the West End, see Brief Encounter
The Brief Encounter was the name given to a bi-monthly series of open meetings organised by Croydon Area Gay Society. The meetings were originally held in a central Croydon pub called "The Brief",[1] hence the name, but this venue closed down suddently, and the meetings were then held in other Croydon premises. mainly the Spread Eagle, Katharine Street. The last meeting in the series was in February 2017; the series was then to be replaced by the "CAGS Monthly Meeting".[2]
List of speakers
- October 2008: Brian Paddick
- December 2008; Allan Horsfall and Ray Gosling
- April 2009: Denise Anderson
- June 2009: Peter Tatchell
- August 2009: Sharon Ferguson
- October 2009: Angela Mason
- December 2009: Mark Bunyan
- February 2010: "Hustings" meeting in advance of the General Election
- April 2010: Justin Varney
- May 2010: Thierry Schaffauser
- June 2010: Colin Coward
- August 2010: Paul Burston
- October 2010: Linda Bellos
- December 2010: Peter Scott-Presland
- February 2011: Darren Ollerton
- April 2011: Rory Goring
- June 2011: "40 years on" - recollections by members of 40 years of CAGS
- August 2011: Lindsay River
- October 2011: Sue Sanders
- December 2011: Tony Walton
- February 2012: Lisa Power
- April 2012: Patrick Strudwick
- June 2012: Ivor C Treby
- October 2012: Ted Brown
- December 2012: Stella Duffy
- February 2013: Michael Danvers-Walker
- March 2013: Laura Fox
- May 2013: Ed Connell
- July 2013: Terry Cooling
- September 2013: The Bishop of Croydon
- November 2013: Peter Robins
- February 2014: Film The Celluloid Closet
- May 2014: Poems of Ivor Treby, read by John Dixon and Jeff Doorn from Paradise Press
- July 2014: Yemisi Ilesanmi, author of Freedom to love for all: Homosexuality is not Un-African
- September 2014: Tony Butchart-Kelly from the Albert Kennedy Trust
- November 2014: "Hustings" meeting in advance of the General Election
- February 2015: Robert J Brown, compiler of Through the Eyes of Others
- March 2015: Mark Watson
- May 2015: Kevin Maxwell
- July 2015: Donald West
- September 2015: Stephen McKenna
- November 2015: Navah Bekhor from Diversity Role Models
- February 2016: Rev Art Lester from Croydon Unitarian Church
- March 2016: Del Campbell from the SWISH project
- May 2016: Dr Matt Cook
- July 2016: Mansel Stimson
- September 2016: David Ledain, author of Gay Dad
- November 2016: Cari Mitchell, from the English Collective of Prostitutes
- February 2017: Peter Scott-Presland and Andrew Lumsden
