Jackie Forster

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Jackie Forster (née Jacqueline Mackenzie) was born 6 November 1926 and died 10 October 1998. She worked as a TV presenter and news reporter before marrying her husband, Peter Forster. She became notorious for later falling in love with a woman and divorcing her husband. The couple had two children at the time of the divorce^{[citation needed]}.

In the 1960s she joined the Minorities Research Group. In 1969 she joined the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). and came to serve on its Executive Committee. In 1970, she was a founder member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in London. She was on the first Gay Pride march in the UK in August 1971.

In 1972 she was one of the founders of Sappho, the UK's longest-running lesbian publication (Sappho was published from 1972 to 1981). It was both a magazine and a community for the women who contributed to it.^{[citation needed]}