LGBTQ organisation celebrates 50 years

A social group for the LGBTQ+ community covering Bath, Bristol and the South West is celebrating 50 years with an all-day party and a special edition calendar.

GayWest can trace its origins to April 1970, with the formation of Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in Bristol. A prominent campaigning group, members invited outside speakers and wrote to MPs and councillors to remove some of the anomalies left by the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which partially decriminalised male homosexuality in 1971. A similar group, Bath Gay Awareness Group, was formed in Bristol’s neighbouring city in 1971.

In 1982, Bath Gay Awareness Group became GayWest, merging with CHE Bristol the following year. The new group focused on social activities, but still had a political heart.

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