Highbury Fields — First UK Gay Rights Demonstration ⚠ Unverified Own this place?

On 27 November 1970 about 150 members of the newly formed Gay Liberation Front gathered on Highbury Fields with torches to protest the arrest of Young Liberal Louis Eakes in a police entrapment operation there. It is generally counted as Britain's first gay rights demonstration. For the 30th anniversary in 2000, OutRage! unveiled a triangular bronze plaque at the Highbury Corner end of the fields. Otherwise this is an ordinary Islington park, free and open to all, with the plaque as the only marker. Highbury & Islington station is a couple of minutes' walk away.