Events tagged with "disability"
Commission for Equality and Human Rights
The setting up of a single equality commission – the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) - will create the first statutory body to protect Britain’s lesbian, gay and bisexual population. The Equality Act 2006 - which establishes the CE...
Disability
Individual lesbian and gay people’s identity is about more than their sexuality. Sadly, members of minority groups have not always found acceptance within the LGB community. Disabled lesbians and gay men face double disadvantage, including homo...
Memories tagged with "disability"
I didn't shape up with my disability - 1985
Trevor is disabled and uses a wheelchair.“As an outsider back in the eighties, the gay scene was very frightening. I got the feeling that the scene was very body conscious and gay men in particular seemed obsessed with the body beautiful and the male...
Lots happening for lesbians in the 1980s
Betty ‘Henrietta's Out’ (after Henrietta the Engine in Thomas the Tank Engine) had a logo with this train on it that somebody created. Catherine M was involved, the moving light in that was Liz Davidge.” Gill: “This was back around the same time as w...