Members of the Gay Liberation Front protesting outside Bow Street Magistrates Court (Central Press/Getty)
The erasure of trans people from history is sadly nothing new, so it’s hardly surprising that the fight for trans liberation in the UK is far older than many realise.
The crucible for modern-day LGBT+ rights was, of course, the Stonewall riots of 1969. The demonstrations sent ripples across the world, sparking trailblazing LGBT+ movements from Boston to Berlin – and in Britain, we had the Gay Liberation Front.
It began in 1970 as 19 people in a basement of the London School of Economics. Within weeks it snowballed into meetings attended by hundreds more, becoming a watershed moment in British queer history.