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[[File:lisapower.png|200px|thumb|left|Lisa Power]]

==Country==

United Kingdom

==Birth - Death==

1954 -

==Occupation==

Activist

==Notable Achievements==

MBE

==Description==

Corporate head of policy at the Terrence Higgins Trust.  Co-founders of Stonewall, the highly successful LGBT lobby group and an early Secretary-General of the International Lesbian & Gay Association (ILGA), she was the first openly LGBT person to speak on gay rights at the United Nations in New York.  Trustee of Pride Cymru and a Director of the Save The Coal Exchange campaign.  Co-founded The Pink Paper and wrote an oral history of the London Gay Liberation Front, 'No Bath But Plenty Of Bubbles'.  Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (2011).

==See Also==

* [[LGBTQ Individuals at the United Nations]]
* [[Pride Event Management]]
* [[LGBTQ Founders and Executives with Charitable Foundations]]

==Further Reading/Research==

* http://www.pinknews.co.uk/topic/lisa-power/
* http://www.tht.org.uk/our-charity/Our-work/Our-history/2010s
* http://ilga.org/ilga-proud-of-former-co-secretary-general-lisa-power-s-inclusion-in-british-mbe-honours-list/