5th July 2024 and Labour have won the biggest landslide majority in their history. The reasons given were, the Conservative vote had collapsed, the Liberal Democrats had risen from the …
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LGBTQI+ social exclusion causes loneliness, abuse and early death
by Mike Butlerby Mike ButlerOlder LGBTQI+ people having losts of the Opening Doors charity that acted as an umbrella organisation for older LGBTQI+ people back in the summer of 2024, a further blow in …
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A career in words: From Gay News to Some Men In London
by Mike Butlerby Mike ButlerJust a decade after the legalisation of male homosexuality in 1967 Peter Parker, then a young, aspiring, English Literature student at University College London decided to turn what others at …
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I had walked in Gays the Word bookshop, near Russell Square, to find myself face to face with the young, purple haired writer and activist, Ellen Jones. Her purple hair …
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Book Review: Some Men in London, edited by Peter Parker
by Mike Butlerby Mike ButlerThe books have been extensively researched, they contain excerpts from plays, court statements, parliamentary accounts, books, films, newspapers and any other media available at that time. Â Â There are accounts of …
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Victorian Books, ‘lefty’ politics, LGBTQ+ History and Kink meet in the Archives in Bishopsgate
by Mike Butlerby Mike ButlerOn the hottest day of the year in the summer of 2022, with the temperature inside what was Backstreet in Mile End hitting 40 degrees, Stef Dickers, curator of the …
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Polka Dots and Checkered Slacks in Bangla Town
by Mike Butlerby Mike ButlerIan, with some of his stock Picture: Mike Butler At the top end of Brick Lane near the junction of Bethnal Green Road sits Hunky Dory, a shop that sells …