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Gay Housing Action
Gay Housing Action empowers and encourages the LGBT Community to escape homophobia⁄transphobia in the places where we live and to obtain safe, secure, friendly, decent, affordable housing.
| Contact: | Terry |
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| Email: | gayhousingaction@hotmail.co.uk |
| Gender: | Mixed |
| When: | Every two weeks. Please email for details. |
| Where: | Various venues around London |
| How much: | Membership is free (but donations are very welcome!) |
| Beginners welcome: | Yes |
Humanists
Gay & Lesbian Humanist Association
Founded in 1979, the Gay & Lesbian Humanist Association provides a voice for the many non-religious individuals in the lesbian and gay community in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and promotes a rational humanist approach to homosexuality and to lesbian and bisexual gay rights as human rights.
| Telephone: | George on 01926 858 450 |
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| Email: | info@galha.org |
| Website: | www.galha.org |
| Address: | 34 Spring Lane, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2HB |
| Gender: | Mixed |
| When: | Fridays 7.30pm once monthly |
| Where: | Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL |
| How much: | £25 (joint), £20 (full), £10 (concs) pa |
| Beginners welcome: | Yes |
Labour
Labour Campaign For Lesbian & Gay Rights
Campaigning organisation working within the Labour Party and the trade union movement
for full equality. LCLGR’s campaigning has backed up the massive programme of
reform which Labour has carried out since coming into government in 1997.
Recently it campaigned for civil partnerships' legislation, employment protection and anti-discrimination legislation in use of goods and services. The LCLGR meets regularly with ministers and officials to advise on legislation. During elections, it campaigns for Labour in the LGBT community. It is a membership organisation, open to any lesbian, gay man, bisexual or transgender person in the Labour movement. LCLGR is formally affiliated to the Labour Party as a socialist society.
| Telephone: | 07092 332676 |
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| Email: | info@lgbtlabour.org.uk |
| Website: | www.lgbtlabour.org.uk |
| Address: | PO Box 306, London N5 2SY |
| Gender: | Mixed |
| When: | Email or phone for details |
| Where: | Email or phone for details |
| How much: | |
| Beginners welcome: | Yes |
Liberal Democrats
DELGA
DELGA is an officially recognised organisation within the Liberal Democrats in
the UK. DELGA is committed to promoting the policies of the party to gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender people, and to ensure that the party’s policies address their needs.
| Telephone: | |
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| Email: | info@delga.org.uk |
| Website: | www.delga.libdems.org.uk/ |
| Address: | |
| Gender: | Mixed |
| When: | See website for details |
| Where: | See website for details |
| How much: | |
| Beginners welcome: | Yes |
Socialist Party LGBT Group
| Telephone: | Manny Thain on 020 8988 8777 |
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| Email: | mannythain@socialistparty.org.uk |
| Website: | www.socialistparty.org.uk/liberation/ |
| Gender: | Mixed |
| When: | Phone or email for details |
| Where: | Phone or email for details |
Stonewall
Stonewall is renowned for its campaigning and lobbying. Some major successes include helping
achieve the equalisation of the age of consent, lifting the ban on lesbians and gay men
serving in the military, securing legislation allowing same-sex couples to adopt and the
repeal of Section 28. More recently Stonewall has helped secure civil partnerships and
ensured the recent Equality Act protected lesbians and gay men in terms of goods and services.
Stonewall also works with a whole range of agencies to address the needs of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in the wider community. Their Diversity Champions programme offers advice and support to over 250 organisations including IBM, Barclays, Barnardos, DTI and the Royal Navy.
For more information about offering your support to their campaigns, contact Stonewall using the details provided below.
| Telephone: | 020 7593 1850 |
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| Email: | info@stonewall.org.uk |
| Website: | www.stonewall.org.uk |
| Address: | Tower Building, York Road, London SE1 7NX |
| Gender: | Mixed |
Unions
UNISON
Lesbians and gay men in UNISON organise locally and nationally to support each other,
to identify discrimination, to increase awareness of lesbian and gay rights and to
campaign for change.
| Telephone: | 0845 355 0845 |
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| Email: | out@unison.co.uk |
| Website: | www.unison.org.uk/out/index.asp |
| Address: | Lesbian and Gay Members, UNISON, 1 Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9AJ |
| Gender: | Mixed |
| When: | Phone for details |
| Where: | Phone for details |
| How much: | |
| Beginners welcome: | Yes |
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