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<DIV>Friday 13 March 2009, 7.30pm: <A class=external href="http://www.ethicalsoc.org.uk/conway/where.htm" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1231774343_0>Conway Hall</SPAN></A></DIV>
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<DIV>see <A href="http://www.galha.org.uk/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1231774343_1>www.galha.org.uk</SPAN></A> for other events</DIV></TH></TR>
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<DIV class=float-right><A class=internal href="http://www.galha.org/books/history.html#cook" target=_blank rel=nofollow><IMG height=156 alt="Book cover: A Gay History of Britain" src="http://www.galha.org/image/aghob.jpg" width=102></A> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Squatting In Brixton</STRONG> – the Brixton <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1231774343_2>Gay Community</SPAN> of the 1970s. A talk based on new research by Dr <STRONG><A class=external href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/about_staff/academic_staff/cook" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1231774343_3>Matt Cook</SPAN></A></STRONG>, Senior Lecturer in History at the <A class=external href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1231774343_4>School of Continuing Education</SPAN></A>, Birkbeck, University of London.</DIV>
<DIV>While GALHA has earned its place in <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1231774343_5 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">LGBT history</SPAN>, some aspects of the origins of the radical gay movement in the UK may still surprise some of us. Tonight Matt Cook reveals all. The Brixton Gay Community of the 1970s formed around the UK ’s first gay centre and a series of nearby squatted houses. Between 50 and 60 men lived in these squats for anything from a week to ten years. In oral testimonies many of them describe how their experience shaped their politics, their ideas about sexual identity and community, and their creative lives. The South London <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1231774343_6 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Gay Liberation Front</SPAN>, the journal <CITE class=title>Gay Left</CITE> and the Brixton Faeries are each linked to the squatting community, which in the mid-1980s was absorbed into the Brixton
Co-op. The houses – and the communal garden that connects them – are still reserved for gay and lesbian tenants: a tangible legacy of the earlier community. This talk describes the genesis and contours of the community, and explores the attempt by those involved to live differently</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><BR>
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