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Graham McKerrow

March 2026

  • Martyn Butler co-counder of the Terrence Higgin Trust speaking at Newport Pride in the Park 20222KDDBAG Martyn Butler co-counder of the Terrence Higgin Trust speaking at Newport Pride in the Park 2022

    Martyn Butler obituary

    Co-founder of the Terrence Higgins Trust, the leading HIV charity, in 1982

November 2023

  • Andrew Lumsden pictured in 1982. He was a reporter at the Times and later a news editor at the New Statesman.

    Andrew Lumsden obituary

    Journalist and leading gay rights campaigner who helped set up Gay News and the first Pride march in 1972

August 2019

  • Liz Cooper, centre, wearing a scarf, with other members of the Publications Distribution Co-operative

    Other lives
    Liz Cooper obituary

    Other lives: Socialist feminist who organised the distribution of radical publications across Britain

February 2015

  • Michael Mason on the Gay News office phone in 1977

    Other lives
    Michael Mason obituary

    Other lives: Journalist at Gay News and co-founder of Capital Gay, who helped spark the campaign against Section 28

March 2014

  • Peter Ashman, human rights lawyer and activist

    Peter Ashman obituary

    Lawyer and activist whose work on human rights helped lead to the decriminalisation of homosexuality across Europe

June 2010

  • Antony Grey

    Antony Grey obituary

    Campaigner for the decriminalisation of homosexuality

May 2010

  • double quotation markDavid Laws: Yet again, hiding in the closet proves a politician's undoing

    Graham McKerrow
    Graham McKerrow: It seems hardly believable that in 2010, after all the changes in public attitudes and in the law, the gay liberation message still needs to be heard

July 2002

  • Hope from words and deeds

    In contrast to the last International Aids conference two years ago, when many political leaders stayed away, this week's meeting in Barcelona has been littered with vice-presidents, prime ministers and ministers of health, writes Graham McKerrow.
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