The first gay rights demonstration in Britain took place in Highbury Fields when about 150 members of the Gay Liberation Front held a torchlight rally against police harassment. Louis Eakes of the Young Liberals had been arrested in Highbury Fields, accused of "importuning for an immoral purpose".
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First gay rights demonstration
Unveiled 25 November 2000, the 30th anniversary of the commemorated event. In...
Husband of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Born London. Campaigned with his wife E...
Split off from the Women's Social and Political Union where Emmeline Pankhurs...
Secretary of Married Women’s Property Committee, Secularist and sexual radica...
Anti-slavery movement and women’s suffrage. Executive member of NUWSS. Prisc...
