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# LGBT HISTORY MONTH: Cambridge Event: ‘Gay in the 80s’ looks back on a pivotal era in the LGBT movement’s history
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/lgbt-history-month-cambridge-event-gay-in-the-80s-looks-back-on-a-pivotal-era-in-the-lgbt-movements-history/
- Published: 2017-01-31T11:08:10.000Z
- Updated: 2017-01-31T11:08:10.000Z
- Description: Ahead of LGBT History Month, Colin Clews sheds new light on the LGBT experience in the 1980s in his new book Gay in the 80s.
- Author: Besi
- Tags: Arts, Books, In The South, LGBT History Month, News, Friends Meeting House

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Ahead of LGBT History Month, Colin Clews sheds new light on the LGBT experience in the 1980s in his new book *Gay in the 80s*.

**The 1980s heralded many challenges** for LGBT+ people around the world, political and social. Underpinning all of these challenges was the unfolding of the AIDS crisis: a time when LGBT+ people realised that they were no longer simply fighting for their rights but, quite literally, fighting for their lives. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom; by the end of the eighties there had been some very real progress.

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Colin Clews

A special event is being organised as part of Cambridge LGBT+ History Month to launch the book. This will be a presentation by **Colin Clews** and **Sergeant Kevin Misik** from Cambridgeshire Police Service on *From Persecutors to Protectors: The Changing Relationship Between Police and the LGBT Community*.

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**Event:** *From Persecutors to Protectors: The Changing Relationship Between Police and the LGBT Community*.

**Where:** Jesus Lane Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA

**When:** Thursday February 23 from 7-9pm.

**Time:** 7pm- 9pm