Making a short list of interesting/influential queer UK people since pride month usually only teachers USAmerican queer history;
Edward Carpenter (activist for gay rights, philosopher, anthologist)
Radclyffe Hall, whose book 'The Well of Loneliness' sparked legal controversy for bringing the topic of homosexuality to the public.
Thomas Baty (also known as Irene Clyde) gnc lawyer, writer and activist who was possibly nonbinary, genderfluid or a trans woman.
Edith Lees who write the first British play with lesbian love.
Colonel Sir Victor Barker, a trans man who after he was outed as trans had his marriage to a woman forcefully anulled and ended up in freak shows.
In a nicer turn of events, Mark Edward Louis Weston aka 'The Devonshire Wonder', an intersex athlete who transitioned towards male later in life.
Laurence Micheal Dillon, doctor and author known as the first known trans man to undergo phalloplasty in the UK and Roberta Cowell (racing driver and fighter pilot) the first known British trans woman to undergo mtf surgery.
Both of those surgeries made possible by surgeon Harold Gillies and colleagues.
Ivor Cummings, openly gay civil servant of Sierra Leonean ancestry, known as the gay father of the Windrush Generation" for his work establishing Brixton as a hub for Britain's Afro-Carribean community.
Lord Wolfenden who chaired a committee which produced a report advising the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK. This was backed by councillor Alan Horsfall and Antony Grey who were both activists. Decriminisaltion of homosexuality was later pushed again by Lord Arran. MP Humphry Berkeley also tried to introduce a bill to legalise homosexuality. It was eventually partially decriminalised so long as it was in private and between two men over 21 (lesbianism was never illegal) after the efforts of these people and MP Roy Jenkins.
Esme Langley, one of the founders of The Minorities Research Group, the UK's first lesbian social and political orginisation.
Campaign for Homosexual Equality (first British gay activist group). In Scotland, the Scottish Minorities Group aka Outright Scotland founded by Ian Dunn.
Aubrey Walter and Bob Mellors who founded the Gay Liberation Front in response to the Stonewall Rebellion (look into the GLF it's great).
UK's first 'Gay Pride' held 1st July 1972.
Dr Carol Steele and fellow trans woman Linda B, founders of the Manchester TV/TS Group.
Phillip Cox and Paul Welch, founders of The Londay Gay Teenager Group, Europe's first registered gay youth group, chaired by Steven Power.
Mark Rees, who brought a case to the European Court of Human Rights about UK law not recognising him legally as male. The case was lost, but get the court thinking about the seriousness of issues facing trans people.
Stonewall UK - a group set up to oppose homophobic law 'Section 28', founded by Sir Ian McKellen, Lisa Power and Michael Cashman.
And honestly I could go on.
