Lisa Power
From QueerBio.com
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).
See Also
- LGBTQ Individuals at the United Nations
- Pride Event Management
- LGBTQ Founders and Executives with Charitable Foundations
