Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality

The Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality (TORCHE) was a British LGBT conservative organization.

Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality
PredecessorNone
SuccessorLGBT+ Conservatives
Formation1975
FounderPeter Walter Campbell
Founded atUnited Kingdom
Dissolved2004
PurposeLGBT conservatism
Location
AffiliationsConservative Party

In 1975, it was founded as the Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality (CGHE), also called GayCon, by Peter Walter Campbell. The CGHE was a voluntary organization that lobbied the Conservative Party opinion in favour of gay rights and to provide a political balance within the gay rights movement. The group was revived in 1980, and a constitution drawn up and adopted on 28 March 1981, establishing an elected Executive Committee to oversee the running of the group. In 1991, the CGHE reconstituted at the Conservative Party Conference and renamed the Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality. The organization would remain active until 2004, when it disbanded.[1][2][3]

See also

References
  1. "Record".
  2. Taylor, Yvette; Snowdon, Ria (18 February 2014). Queering Religion, Religious Queers. Routledge. ISBN 9781135013769 – via Google Books.
  3. Koller, Veronika (19 February 2008). Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community. Routledge. ISBN 9781135900502 – via Google Books.


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