Bundle of material relating to the Association of London Authorities’ Lesbian and Gay Committee and the Lesbian and Gay Officer/s, including reports, meeting minutes, agendas, and related documents. Covers issues as they relate to local and national lesbian and gay communities, including policing, housing, workplace law and workers’ rights, Section 28, anti-discrimination strategies and training provision, HIV/AIDS, developments in lesbian and gay issues across the UK, and more.

Audio cassettes:
Tackling Heterosexism: A Handbook of Lesbian Rights & GLC Women’s Committee (tapes 1 & 2; n.d.); LA Anti-Discrimination Code of Practice (n.d.); Borough Action News No. 3 (tape 1; Jan 1987); Radar/Mind 1986 Disabled Persons Act & Handbook of Voluntary Organisations (c.1986); Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) 1986 Chapter 33 (c.1986); Women and Public Transport (n.d.); Haringey Disabilities Committee (June 1987); Education Matters (re Clause 28 & News of Lords Debate; n.d.); CLCBLG minutes of Management Committee meeting & agenda (Nov & Dec 1991); International Women’s Week exhibition (7 Mar 1991); Hackney: Staying Out (May 1988); Disability Sub Group (13 Jul 1987); ITOI Guidelines for Advocacy in Mental Handicapped Hospitals (n.d.); Borough Action News No.3 (tape 2; Jan 1987); GLC- Equal Opportunities Code of Practice (tape 2; n.d.); Women & Transport Conference (Oct 1985); LLGRC Conference info (n.d.); How to Make Ink Print Available to Blind & Partially Sighted People booklet (n.d.); Tackling Heterosexism (tape 3; n.d.); Lesbian Strength & Pride (1989); Disability sub group & access code to unit (9 Mar 1987); Minutes of Lesbians & Gays with Disabilities subgroup (13 May 1987); Harassment of lesbians and gays: how to challenge it in GLC (n.d.); Disability subgroup (14 Sept 1987); Disability subgroup mailing original (13 Aug 1986); Progress Report Disabilities GLC (tape 2; n.d.); L&G Sub Committee (1 Oct 1986); L&G with Disabilities Further Action (n.d.); Gay Men’s Sub-Group Disability sub group (9 Jan 1987 & 21 Jan 1987); Disability sub group minutes & access code to Lesbian & Gay Unit (9 Mar 1987); GLC Move Together (tapes 1 & 2; n.d.); GLC Women’s Bulletin Carematch (tape 3; n.d.); GLC Women’s Committee Knowing the Difference (tape 3; n.d.); Changing the World (tapes 1-3, multiple copies; n.d.); Changing the World Recommendations Gay/Lesbian GPS (n.d.); Section 28: A Guide for School, Teachers, Governors etc. (tapes 1 & 2; n.d.); Lesbian and Gay Sub-Committee (tape 3: agenda No.11-16; 16 Dec 1986); Making Connections PWD & PW AIDS (n.d.); Lesbian and Gay Sub-Committee (tape 4, agenda no.16 & appendix; 16 Dec1986); Haringey Lesbian Strength and Gay Pride Programme (1987); Haringey Strategy Statement on Racial Equality (n.d.); North London S&P Programme (1988); Local Government Bill mailing (n.d.); GLC Women’s Bulletin (tape 1; n.d.); Women & Disabilities (tape 1; Jan 1986); Women’s Committee Support Unit & draft of booklet on lesbian experience (n.d.); Access at conferences & meeting for people with disabilities (tapes 1 & 2; n.d.); North London Lesbian Strength and Unity; Materiography parts 1/2 & 3/4 (LRB 11; n.d.); Radio 5 Out This Week (25 Jan 1998); Women’s Airwaves (n.d.); Reformation- Chadwick (Part III, pp. 363-386); To Kirsten Hearne from CLCBLG (n.d.); Mistress tape reply to tape letters of enquiry from individual women to LISG (n.d.); Kirsten Hearne (from CLCBLG) concerning training (n.d.); Minutes of CLCBLG Management Committee & meeting agenda (Dec 1991 & Jan 1992); Letter to CLCBLG Management Committee members re non-attendance (Feb 1992); OLGA Prospectus (n.d.); Greater London Council Computer Information Pack for PWD (n.d.); Unite Bulletin no.1 COH Newsletter (May/June) & Guidelines for Sub-Group Co-operation (n.d.); GLC Women’s Committee Ailsa Beckett article contd (n.d.).

Organisational records relating to Camden Council Lesbian and Gay Committee. Includes: administrative correspondence & circulars; newsletters; reports; meeting minutes & agendas; memoranda.

Material relating to Camden Council’s Lesbian & Gay Unit and Lesbian & Gay Committee.

Includes: correspondence; flyers for events and affiliates including Camden Lesbian Day 1986 and Camden Women’s Bus; flyers and questionnaires re public consultation; a poster for Camden Lesbian Day 1986; flyers re lobbies against Section 28 and funding cuts to lesbian and gay services.

Camden Council Lesbian and Gay Committee meeting minutes, spanning Jun 1988-Jan 1991.

Camden Council Lesbian and Gay Committee meeting agendas and minutes, spanning Oct 1987-Mar 1988.

Material relating to Camden Council Lesbian and Gay Unit, including: circulars for public meetings and consultations; invitations to training days and events; correspondence re setting up a Unit steering group; role descriptions for Unit workers; and related material.

Material relating to Camden Lesbian and Gay Project, including: press releases, bulletins/digests, correspondence and circulars regarding establishing a Lesbian and Gay Unit within Camden Council; material (including flyer and follow-up notes) from Camden Lesbian Day on 3 May 1986; proposals for a L&G Unit by a Women’s Committee Lesbian Project Worker; and related material.

Ealing Council’s ‘Anti-Racism Positive Action Plan’, by its Lesbian and Gay Consultative Group (with cover letter requesting comment).

Material relating to the establishment of a Lesbian and Gay Committee on Camden Council.

Includes: correspondence; flyers re public consultation, Camden Lesbian Day (3rd May 1986) and conference, ‘Lesbians and gay men – working and campaigning for lesbian and gay rights in London… in local government’ (19th April 1986); proposals for committee; posters (x2) for meeting to elect representatives to Lesbian and Gay Committee (1987).