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Champions of Equality - Trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain (Paperback)
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Champions of Equality - Trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain (Paperback)
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There is a big hole in the history of the LGBT movement in Britain.
Each step towards equality for LGBT people, every positive move in
public opinion, was the result of campaigning. But while
individuals and lobby groups loudly promote their role in the
victories, one major player has been written out of this history:
the unions. This book fills the gap. From the first strike action
organised by trade union members to save the job of a victimised
gay colleague in the 1970s, through the mutual solidarity of
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, to the Trades Union Congress
taking the initiative to save London Pride in 2012, and much more,
trade unions have contributed immensely to the successes achieved,
all the while protecting jobs and securing equality for thousands
of LGBT working people. Peter Purton was the TUC's first LGBT
officer. His book, of interest to everyone interested in equality
and trade union history, reveals how LGBT trade union members
organised to win recognition, then support, and how trade unions
supported the struggles of LGBT communities in Britain and across
the world. This is an inspiring tale, and in the dangerous world of
the twenty-first century, it is a warning call to the LGBT
community and those supporting it, to wake up to new threats, to
remember how past victories were achieved. The labour movement has
much potential as an active participant in the unfinished fight for
equality, but this book shows the need for mutual engagement to
make change possible.
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