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10 Queer Women Who Changed History

10 Queer Women Who Changed History
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How the UK s historic Gay Liberation Front fought for trans rights

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.

The Velvet Mafia: the gay men who helped shape music in the 60s

Alun Owen, Lionel Bart and Brian Epstein at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in January 1964. Photograph: Sayle/Mirrorpix The story of rock’n’roll in the 60s has been told countless times by the stars who sang the songs, spun the solos or thrashed the drums. In the UK at the time, that most often meant straight white men, as it did in the US. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the ones who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized margin, gay men. From sharehousing with AC/DC to comforting Sharon Osbourne: life as the world’s first female roadie

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