Difference between revisions of "Lisa Power"
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Activist | Activist | ||
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| + | ==Notable Achievements== | ||
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| + | MBE | ||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
| − | Corporate head of policy at the Terrence Higgins Trust. | + | 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). |
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| + | ==Further Reading/Research== | ||
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| + | * 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/ | ||
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Revision as of 21:03, 17 September 2015
Contents
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).
