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Assorted press cuttings relating to LGBT+ experiences & issues, including some homophobic and transphobic media coverage of LGBT lives.

Titles include: The Times; The Sun; Daily Star; News of the World; Guardian; Times Literary Supplement; City Limits; Capital Gay, and many others.

Material relating to the organisation of International Women’s Day week of festivities in March 1985, coordinated by Camden Women’s Bus and organised by Camden Women’s Bus, Kentish Town Women’s Workshop, Women with Disabilities Group, Cypriot Women’s Centre, Chinese Community Centre, CLC, West Hampstead Women’s Centre, King’s Cross Neighbourhood Centre, Harmood Community Centre, Camden Community Transport, Playbox, Camden Council Women’s Unit, Under 2s Centre, Resources and Information for Girls, and Camden Residents.

Includes event proposal, programme drafts, budget and costings documents, meeting minutes, consultation flyer to gauge needs of women in Camden, and related material.

Material relating to A Woman’s Place (AWP) collective [not related to Woman’s Place UK]. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, incoming and outgoing correspondence, research questionnaires (all 1978-1979). Also includes a flyer for an all-women’s cruise as a benefit for Positively Women and Sheba feminist publisher [c.1980s?].

CLCBLG photographs from ‘Smash the Backlash’, an explicitly queer, anti-racist demonstration organised by Positive Images and Haringey Black Action in March 1987.

Series includes birth chart and psycho-graphologist analysis, handwritten letter to a ‘most beloved child’ with a photo attached of Forster and her parents, newspaper clippings of Forster’s fathers obituary. Also contains a file of 4 books signed and dedicated to Forster, a notebook and a horoscope birth book.

Press cuttings from various issues of Capital Gay magazine, covering many facets of LGBTQ+ cultural and social life in London and the UK, including Pride marches, protests & demonstrations, the debate around S&M and fetish gear, employment, housing and homelessness, HIV/AIDS, Section 28, politics, and related issues & events.

Literature and publications relating to Black women and Black lesbians.

Includes: All Faiths for One Race (AFFOR) occasional paper ‘On Racism & Sexism’ by Alison Sealey (May 1982); sleeve of articles copied from publications inc New York Native, 7 Sisters Girls Work magazine, ONYX (Black Lesbians Only), Funky Black Lesbians journal etc (c.1980s; includes list of publications); letter and minutes from Black and Ethnic Minority Working Group, Camden Women’s Committee meeting (Jan 1985); The Voice article on Black British women’s artistic contributions (6 Mar 1980); copy of article from Spare Rib Black Women’s special issue (Oct 1983); two magazine pages featuring images of Barbara Burford and J. Casselberry & Jaqué DuPreé; ‘We have Always Been Here’, report by Linda King, Black worker at the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (Jun 1989); Big Apple Dyke News pub (Mar 1981).

Series contains photographs of Jackie Forster, her friends, colleagues and others throughout her career. Includes professional acting headshots from the BBC, an envelope titled ‘Daytime Dykes 1996, photographs from a 1987 ALGWE Women’s Society meeting, a series of shots from Forster’s visit to Glasgow Women’s Library and photographs from Sappho and other events.

Press cuttings from the ‘Out in the City’ (later, simply ‘Out’) section of City Limits magazine, listing LGBT events including club nights, discussion and support groups, and arts events.