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Cambridge Diamonds is a social and self-help group supporting the transgender communities in Eastern England.<ref> http://www.diamondstgc.org.uk/ Accessed 2 July 2023 </ref> | Cambridge Diamonds is a social and self-help group supporting the transgender communities in Eastern England.<ref> http://www.diamondstgc.org.uk/ Accessed 2 July 2023 </ref> | ||
| + | Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History by Simon Goldhill was published in 2025 <ref> Cambridge University Press, 2025, xii + 304 pp., £25 (hardback), ISBN 9781009528061 </ref>. Tom Hulme's review of the books says: If readers are hoping for a study that takes the city as a whole, however, the short and snappy title somewhat oversells the focal breadth. There is no town, only gown, and even then, just one college – King’s – and predominantly one stairway of rooms within it <ref> Hulme, T. (2025). Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History: by Simon Goldhill, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, xii + 304 pp., £25 (hardback), ISBN 9781009528061. Cultural and Social History, 22(5), 739–741. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2550880 </ref>. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:47, 5 February 2026
LGBT History
The University of Cambridge has a rich history of gay students including law reform campaigner George Ives and the notorious Guy Burgess.
In 1970 John Hiles formed the Cambridge branch of CHE. The following year, Hiles, together with Chris Heron, set up Gay Cambridge. Bernard Greaves was an active member and worked to get the police to change the way they policed homosexuality in the city. Hiles committed suicide in 1978 [1]. Toby Keynes (Gonville and Caius) flew the Cambridge Gay Liberation flag from the top of King’s Parade (from his rooms, in the corner tower) at Gay Cambridge's 10th birthday celebration at Easter 1981, and nearly got sent down.
There is a Cambridge University LGBT+ Alumni Association which is 2024 started to compile Q100 exhibition of 100 trailblazing LGBT Alumni.
In 2007 Jenny Bailey became mayor of Cambridge.
Queer Cambridge was a directory of queer groups, resources, organisations and links aimed for those in Cambridge.[2]
Cambridge LGBTQ+ group was functioning in 2023 [3].
Cambridge Diamonds is a social and self-help group supporting the transgender communities in Eastern England.[4]
Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History by Simon Goldhill was published in 2025 [5]. Tom Hulme's review of the books says: If readers are hoping for a study that takes the city as a whole, however, the short and snappy title somewhat oversells the focal breadth. There is no town, only gown, and even then, just one college – King’s – and predominantly one stairway of rooms within it [6].
References
- ↑ Gay News 16 November 1978 page 4
- ↑ now defunct website link http://www.queercambridge.co.uk/
- ↑ https://www.meetup.com/cambridge-gay-group/ Accessed 2 July 2023
- ↑ http://www.diamondstgc.org.uk/ Accessed 2 July 2023
- ↑ Cambridge University Press, 2025, xii + 304 pp., £25 (hardback), ISBN 9781009528061
- ↑ Hulme, T. (2025). Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History: by Simon Goldhill, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, xii + 304 pp., £25 (hardback), ISBN 9781009528061. Cultural and Social History, 22(5), 739–741. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2025.2550880
