Out of the Darkness [Gay Icebreakers], Gay News No 156, 30 November-13 December 1978

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November-December 1978

Two-page article in Gay News reproducing the text of a pamphlet produced by members of the Gay Icebreakers collective, which sets out their views on the nature of gay oppression. Icebreakers was an off-shoot of the London Gay Liberation Front's Counter Psychiatry Group established in 1972-1973, and existed until the mid-1980's. They describe themselves in the pamphlet as providing "contact between gays who feel isolated, depressed or alienated, and other gays who had shared their experience and with whom they could speak directly." They ran a telephone help line, social gatherings for people who contacted them, a discussion group at Gay's the Word bookshop in Bloomsbury, and a fund-raising disco that moved between venues in Islington from the original location at The Prince Albert pub (now Central Station), to the Hemingford Arms, then the Carved Red Lion, then The Pied Bull, and finally the Bell at King's Cross.

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LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+) Community, LGBTQ+ Charities and Organisations, Gay Icebreakers

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