Administrative/biographical history

The Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) is based at Bishopsgate Institute in the City of London and houses over 350,000 cuttings taken from the non-gay press on all LGBTQ+ matters since the late Nineteenth Century. Whether you are interested in the recommendations of the Wolfenden Committee in the 1950s, who wore what and why at the Gateways Club in the 1960s, the GLF and The Festival of Light in the 1970s, Clause 28 and the ranting of James Anderton in the 1980s, pink pounds and gay villages in the 1990s or Todd Grimshaw's coming out on Coronation Street in the 2000s, if the mainstream press wrote about it, we'll have the story. There are huge files of cuttings on major moments, such as legislative reform, HIV/AIDS, Section 28 and the collection provides an essential insight into LGBTQ+ history locally around the UK.

Scope and content

The collection is divided into the following areas, and each has many sub-divisions. A full index of the collection is included below in pdf form.

• Subjects
• Arts and the Media
• Censorship, Obscenity and Morality
• Counselling, Medicine and Health
• Employment/Services (Non-Gay)
• Goods and Services/Nightlife
• Public Policy in the UK
• International
• Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Organisations
• Sport
• Prisons
• Sex Work
• Political Life
• Religion
• Further and Adult Education
• Sex Roles and Sexuality
• Sex Offences/Crime/Offenders/Court Cases
• Sexual Law Reform
• Small Talk/Lifestyle
• Social Control
• Social Science and Research
• Young People and Education
• Armed Forces
• Elderly/Older People
• Geographical Areas (Every UK County)
• Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales
• London
• Persons
• Chronological Files up to 1969.