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Shot during the coal miners’ strike in south Wales, 1984-85. 

A plaque in the Highbury Fields neighbourhood in Islington, London, the birthplace of the U.K. queer rights movement.

Welsh singer and actor Ivor Novello (real name David Ivor Davies).

I’m a music journalist in my day job. The Ivor Novello Awards honour Britain’s songwriters every year. Did you know they were named after a gay man? Now you do.

Roberta Cowell (MTF), the first person in the U.K. to have sex reassignment surgery.

English novelist and poet Radclyffe Hall (born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall), author of lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness.

English lesbian actress Vera Holme (left) with a friend.

British transgender painter Peter Gluck.

Activists protesting outside the Old Bailey in London, England, 1977.