Peter Scott-Presland is a writer, actor, playwright and director.
He runs the gay theatre company Homo Promos (Horomos_UK!)
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Gaywaves was a radio programme that was broadcast on a pirate station during the 1980s.
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Robert 'Bob' Crossman (right) was the first openly gay Mayor in the UK, serving as Mayor of Islington from 1986-1987.
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Pictured: Derek Jarman (1942-1994) - film director, artist, diarist, author and tireless activist for #LGBTQ+ rights
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Trade, first beginning in 1990, was #London’s first #gay after-hours club night, hosted at Turnmills nightclub.
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Pictured: Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears.
Benjamin and Peter were in a romantic relationship from 1939 until Britten’s death in 1976. Their relationship was illegal for all but the last 9 years.
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Fay Presto is an award winning magician and illusionist, as well as a lifelong campaigner for #LGBTQ+ rights.
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Sir Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, essayist, author, and Lord High Chancellor of England (1618-1621).
He was widely known for having male lovers and coined the term "masculine love."
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Kenneth Williams (1926-1988) was an actor, comedian, diarist, and raconteur, most famous for his roles in the 'Carry On' films.
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#Section28 was a piece of legislation that was in existence from 1988 to 2003 in the UK, with the intention to prevent the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools.
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Holloway Prison, founded in 1852, had several well-known inmates including Oscar Wilde and Colonel Victor Barker.
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Pictured: Dockyard Doris, an iconic #Islington drag queen and entertainer.
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Derek Jarman was a film director, artist, diarist, author and tireless activist for LGBTQ+ rights.
He died of an AIDS-related illness in 1994.
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On the 27th of November 1970, around 150 members of the London Gay Liberation Front protested against police harassment in London.
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Robert 'Bob' Crossman was the first openly gay Mayor in the UK, serving as Mayor of Islington from 1986-1987.
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Phil Cox founded Gaywaves, a radio programme broadcast on the pirate station Our Radio during the 1980s
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🏳️🌈 "The Highbury Fields protest was...the first known public protest for #LGBTQ+ rights in the UK...."
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#Section28 was a piece of legislation that was in existence from 1988 to 2003 in the UK, with the intention to prevent the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools.
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Pictured: Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears.
Benjamin and Peter were in a romantic relationship from 1939 until Britten’s death in 1976. Their relationship was illegal for all but the last 9 years.
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Peter Wildeblood was a prominent journalist and author. In 1954 he served an 18 month prison sentence for “gross indecency offences (homosexual activity).”
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Pictured: an Excerpt from Boyz, June 1993
Paradise Club, which ran a variety of gay and straight club nights, stood on this site from the late 1980s until the late 90s.
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Robert 'Bob' Crossman (right) was the first openly gay Mayor in the UK, serving as Mayor of Islington from 1986-1987.
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The Pink Angel Festival was an annual event held around Islington, lauded by national newspapers as "Britain's Biggest Gay and Lesbian Festival".
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