Don't Invade This Space! Leaflet

S/PTC/2/6/20

Summer 1985

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.

Photocopy on one side of an A4 sheet of an A5-size leaflet, black on white. Photocopy of a leaflet handed out to men planning to enter The Fallen Angel LGBT+ bar in Graham Street, in the Summer of 1985. In 1985 the Equal Opportunities Commission (later incorporated into the Equality and Human Rights Commission of England, Scotland and Wales) received a complaint about the bar's policy of admitting women only on Tuesday nights: the Commission ruled that it was illegal and the bar was forced to allow entry to men on that evening. A group of men decided to demonstrate outside on Tuesday nights and try to discourage any men who turned up intending to enter the bar: this is a photocopy of one of the leaflets handed out.

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LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+) Community, LGBTQ+ Campaigning and Politics, Sexism, LAW

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