UCL Americas supports campaign to celebrate LGBT+ pioneers

As part of the two week Pride Festival in London, UCL Institute of the Americas proudly collaborates with Proximity London, who have created Love Lived Here, a campaign to celebrate pioneers of the LGBT+ movement throughout British history.

Starting on the 26th June, key blue plaques around London, including writer Lytton Strachey's on the institute building façade, will be given a temporary rainbow makeover to acknowledge the individuals who lived there as part of the LGBT+ community, alongside their literary, scientific, economic or artistic achievements.

Their work of these people has been marked as part of British history, but their LGBT+ status may be lesser known, particularly in view of the less accepting times they lived in.

Other blue plaques turned rainbow plaques include those for:

• Alan Turing, 2 Warrington Crescent W9 1ER

• Charles Laughton, 15 Percy Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1DU

• Sir Frederick Ashton, 8 Marlborough Street, Chelsea, SW3 3PS

• John Maynard Keynes, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PD

• Radclyffe Hall, 37 Holland Street, Kensington, London W8 4LX

• Siegfried Sassoon, 23 Campden Hill Square, Holland Park, W8 7JY