Hodges, Andrew and Hutter, David. With Downcast Gays - Aspects of Homosexual Self-Oppression (Pomegranate Press, 1974)

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Paul Thurlow was a volunteer on the Islington's Pride LGBTQ+ archives project at the Islington Local History Centre and later became a volunteer with the Islington Local History Centre. He is a long-term resident of Islington and an active member of the LGBTQ+ community having volunteered with many organisations including Gay Switchboard. He also actively participated in many events and activities.

Written by two former-members of the Gay Liberation Front Counter-Psychiatry Group (which had produced the pamphlet "Psychiatry and the Homosexual" in 1971-2) this booklet "begins where 'Psychiatry and the Homosexual' left off" and details the oppression and self-oppression experienced by LGBTQ+ people in the 1960's.

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