1972 – Police Target Keele Gay Lib Soc
In 1972 police targeted the Keele Gay Lib Soc as part of a wider campaign against local gay men. An article in the newly launched national publication “Gay News” reported that over the last eight months police had been compiling a dossier of all known gays in the potteries.
Article reproduced from Gay News Issue 6 published around 1st September 1972. Retrieved from The Gay News Archive
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