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{{Short description|1980s government committee in London}}
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'''Gay Rights Working Party''' was a working party (committee) of the [[Greater London Council]] (GLC), which met between 1981 and 1986, when the GLC was abolished.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Brooke |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHAe63jpuOQC&dq=%22Gay+Rights+Working+Party%22&pg=PR11 |title=Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day |date=2011-11-24 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-956254-1 |pages=238–239 |language=en}}</ref>

The working party was formed in 1976 to investigate gay issues in [[London]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} The party was particularly concerned with policy addressing employment rights and police attitudes, and liaised with gay groups throughout the capital, helping them apply for grants from the GLC. They also planned the [[London Lesbian and Gay Centre]], which closed in 1991.<ref name=":0" />

Its work culminated in the publication of ''Changing the World: a London charter for [[gay]] and lesbian rights''. The charter included 142 specific recommendations to improve the lives of gay and lesbian Londoners.<ref name=":0" /> 

One of the important point of its activity was the forming of the Gay London Police Monitoring Group in 1982.

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==External links==
* [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/1/3229.htm Gay Rights Working Party in The British Library of Political and Economic Science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060425024712/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/1/3229.htm |date=25 April 2006 }}

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