Jackie Forster
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Jackie Forster (née Jacqueline Mackenzie) was born 6 November 1926 and died in London on 10 October 1998.[1] She worked as a TV presenter and news reporter before marrying her husband, Peter Forster in 1958. She became notorious for falling in love with a woman in 1957 and eventually divorcing her husband in 1962, when she realised her true sexual identity.[1]
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In the 1960s she joined the Minorities Research Group and wrote for its journal, Arena Three. Later on, she 'came out' publicly in 1969 when she joined the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) and went 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, which was a social group and one of the UK's longest-running lesbian publications (Sappho magazine was published from 1972 to 1981). The Sappho group members used to meet in a Chepstow Public House and had public speakers such as Maureen Duffy and Anna Raeburn.
After Sappho, Jackie became a member of the a member of Greater London Council's Women's Committee.
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