Ted Brown first encountered GLF when he was handed a leaflets the collective were distributing outside a screening of The Boys in The Band. Ted was active in the GLF Youth Group and participated in the first public march and demonstration by LGBTQ+ people in the UK on 28th August, 1971 – a year before for the first Pride march in London. Ted founded Black Lesbians and Gays against Media Homophobia, leading a campaign against The Voice magazine following its reports on the first openly gay professional footballer Justin Fashanu (1990). The 1992 campaign to stop the broadcast on commercial radio of Baju Banton’s homophobic reggae pop song Boom, Bye, Bye resulted in it being banned and a televised apology.
