7^th February 2012:
Lisa Power,
Policy director of the Terrence Higgins Trust. Lisa grew up and discovered her sexuality in Croydon at a time when something like CAGS would have been a miracle. She went on to help found Stonewall and is the author of No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles. See our Press Release.

3^rd April 2012:
Patrick Strudwick,
award-winning journalist, political columnist at Gay Times. He exposed therapists and religious groups claiming to "cure" people of homosexuality.

 5^th December 2011: Tony Walton, editor of Out of the Shadows,  talked about his new book, Up the Kasbah, giving the memories and adventures of gay visitors to Tangier, Algeria and Tunisia, 1890 to 1980. See our press release.

4^th October 2011: Sue Sanders, Co-chair of Schools Out and founder of LGBT History Month UK.

see our press releases of 26 September and 8 October, the press cutting from the Croydon Advertiser, and an item by Erica Mochia on East London Lines.

2^nd August 2011: Lindsay River, founder of Age Of Diversity campaigning by and for older LGBT people, gave us some fascinating insights into the gay world from a woman's perspective.

See our Press Releases of 23 July and 3 August.

7^th June 2011: 40 years on: Selected CAGS members recalled memorable events in CAGS’s past forty years, between comment and questions from the floor.

5^th April 2011: Rory Goring, who runs the Harbour­Safe project at Woolwich, a peer mentoring programme to help helping black gay men practice safer sex and avoid HIV infection. See our 6 April Press Release  and the press cutting.

1^st February 2011: Darren Ollerton, Campaign Director of The Justin Campaign, campaigning against homophobia in football. This meeting was part of CAGS' contribution to LGBT History Month 2011. See our Press Release.

7^th December 2010: Peter Scott-Presland, gay writer and cabaret artiste, and founder of Homo Promos, performed a number of his own songs for us. He has recently been contracted to write the official history of CHE.

5^th October 2010: Linda Bellos OBE, black/Jewish lesbian activist, former leader of Lambeth Council and originator of Black History Month UK. This event was part of CAGS’ contribution to Black History Month in Croydon. See our 6^th October Press Release for more details.

3^rd August 2010: Paul Burston, described as “the nearest thing the UK has to Armistead Maupin”. He edits the gay and lesbian section of Time Out; novels include Star People (2006), Lovers & Losers (2007) and The Gay Divorcee (2009). He gave us some fascinating insights into the creative writing process and revealed that he'd just agreed a deal on TV rights for The Gay Divorcee. See our Flyer and Press Release.

1^st June 2010: Rev Colin Coward, president of Changing Attitude UK, one of the most effective lobbying groups in the Anglican Communion promoting the full inclusion of gays and lesbians into the life of the Church. He gave us an interesting talk last month on the situation of gay people in the Anglican Church, followed by a very lively discussion.

4^th May 2010: Thierry Schaffauser, male gay sex worker, and trade union leader. He has recently contributed to The Guardian in the on-going debate over the new legislation against sex work. There's more about this meeting, with a photo, in our press release.

6^th April 2010: Dr Justin Varney, consultant in public health medicine and co-chair of the Gay and lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists (GLADD). Justin told us that we need to engage with the local health bodies to ensure that LGBT issues are not neglected. We’ve been considering how CAGS could get involved with this.

1^st December 2009: Mark Bunyan, author, composer, and out gay cabaret artist. Mark treated us to a very entertaining evening performing and commenting on his own songs, with relevance to the gay situation down the years.

6^th October 2009: Angela Mason, long-term feminist and campaigner for women’s rights, lesbian mother, OBE and a Government adviser. Angela gave a very interesting talk about her days as head of Stonewall in a period when she helped to push through several major law reforms.

4^th August 2009: Sharon Ferguson, pastor in the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) and recently appointed Chief Executive of LGCM (the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement).

2^nd June 2009: Peter Tatchell, campaigner for gay equality, human rights, democracy, and global justice, Green Party candidate and leading member of Outrage! Noted for his courageous stand on sometimes unpopular issues and his attempted citizen's arrest of Robert Mugabe. See our 3rd June Press Release for more information.

7^th April 2009: Denise Anderson, Transgender campaigner, founder member of the Spectrum London transgender support group, London representative for the Gender Trust, and chair of the Haringey LGBT Network. Passionate about hate crime and domestic violence, and actively involved in support and raising awareness for the trans community.

2^nd December 2008: Allan Horsfall and Ray Gosling, veteran LGBT cam­paigners. Ray is a radio and TV journalist, and Allan was one of the founders of CHE. They both continue work on behalf of gay people to this day. The December press release gives full details.

7^th October 2008: Brian Paddick, who was the most senior openly gay police officer in the UK, and subsequently a candidate for Mayor of London. Brian gave a most informative and entertaining talk to a packed meeting. There's a summary of his talk in our October press release.