Leading gay rights activist to speak in Croydon (From Your Local Guardian)

Leading gay rights activist to speak in Croydon

2:00pm Friday 3rd February 2012 in Croydon By Nick Hitchens

A long-term gay rights activist is set to give a talk as part of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month.

Lisa Power, MBE, policy director of the Terrence Higgins Trust, a HIV and AIDS charity has been consistently involved in human rights campaigns for the past 25 years, first as a writer and activist for lesbian and gay rights and then, since the 1980s, in HIV and sexual health.

A founder member of Stonewall, the UK’s leading gay rights lobby group, and General Secretary of the International Lesbian and Gay Association, she was the first person to speak at the United Nations on behalf of gay rights.

Ms Power, who grew up in Croydon will speak at a meeting of Croydon Area Gay Society at The Spread Eagle Pub, Katharine Street, on February 7 from 8pm.