“I’m pretty sure Peter Tatchell was there because one thing you can guarantee at the end of the 80s is that if somebody was founding something, Peter Tatchell and I would turn up to it.” In the 30 years since, Power has become a powerful LGBT advocate (she helped set up Stonewall). She remembers 15 or 20 people being present.
Her memories of the session, held in the basement of the now-defunct Gay and Lesbian Centre, are that it was “dimly lit” and had “cheap beer”. Lisa Power was at the very first meeting of Act Up London in late 1988. Photograph: Publicity image from film company
How to Survive a Plague … the US take on Act Up.
