'Ted Brown: the man who held a mass kiss-in and made history' The Guardian online, 8 April 2021

S/PTC/6/2/19

8 April 2021

Three A4 sheets, both sides, black, grey and red on white with colour photos. Printout of an article by Jason Okundaye on the black gay activist and journalist Ted Brown, who joined the London Gay Liberation Front in 1970 and took part in it's first public demonstration at Highbury Fields in 1970, and helped organise the first Gay Pride march in London in 1972. Born in New York and arriving in London via Jamaica and Canada, the article highlights the Gay Liberation Front's roots in and connections with the black civil rights movement in the USA, and covers his 'coming out' and his involvement in Galop (then the Gay London Police Monitoring Group) in the 1980's, Lewisham Action on Policing (set up following the New Cross fire in January 1981) and his founding of Black Lesbians and Gays Against Media Homophobia.

LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+) Community, LGBTQ+ Individuals, LGBTQ+ Campaigning and Politics, RACE RELATIONS, HOMOPHOBIA, BLACK PEOPLE

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