Nettie Pollard
Janet (Nettie) Marian Mackenzie Pollard (6th September 1949 - 25th December 2025), known in life as Nettie Pollard, was a pioneering lesbian activist and civil rights campaigner. She is known primarily for her early involvement with the UK branch of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF, founded in 1970), her work with the NCCL, and her involvement with the group Feminists Against Censorship.
Early Sexual Liberation and Civil Liberties Activism
The British GLF organization published a newspaper called Come Together. It for 16 issues from 1970 to 1973 and listed the same address as Peace News, a pacifist magazine at one time edited by Roger Moody, a friend of Nettie's until his death.[1]
External Links
- Nettie Pollard and Michael Parkes on Icebreakers and GLF (Video interview published on Youtube by LSE Library, Jul 19, 2024)
- Interview with Nettie Pollard (audio only, transcript available) conducted between 2023-2025 as part of LSE University's GLF Collections - an open-access online repository of documents and oral interviews with GLF activists.
References
- ↑ Notably, Roger Moody was a British socialist and anti-war activist and the first person to openly declare himself a "paedophile" in print.