John Junor Remembered

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During the 2000s, The Lunettes, a local lesbian network held meetings at The Gregson Centre. The Lunettes began small, meeting once a month, face-to-face get-togethers grew, and at its height, the mailing list included over 100 women from Cumbria, Lancaster and south to Preston. Noted for his deliberately provocative views, Junor was described by the Conservative MP Julian Critchley as "possibly the best-known Scotsman in England" during the 1980s and as "an ill-natured populist with a taste for common-or-garden abuse." [3] Early life [ edit ] North Kelvinside Secondary School in Maryhill, Glasgow, which Junor attended in the 1930s. The service meant a lot. There were switchboards in larger towns, but there were large parts of the country that weren’t covered. We did get people calling from quite remote places – Southern Lakes is an obvious example… who felt they had nobody else to talk to. Alistair, a volunteer at the Lancaster Gay Switchboard

We were young radicals challenging homophobia, sexism, racism, fascism and capitalism our house became a political hub for meetings to organise activist activities and interventions. A founder member of the West Road Gay Collective On an internal wall in the John O’Gaunt gatehouse, there is a rare example of graffiti from the 18th century. It was carved into the wall by John Bailey, who was arrested for homosexual practices. The graffiti is written in Georgian gay slang describing how he had been “committed for kissing”. He was arrested by Brindle, who was a member of the ‘The Reformation Society’. During the 18th and early 19th centuries this group took it upon themselves to try and stamp out drinking, gambling, prostitution and homosexuality. Junor has worked for the Evening Standard and a column for Private Eye lasted five years. [2] Personal life [ edit ]In 1988, the Quakers held an event to discuss attitudes towards homosexuality, which several people from the Lancaster LGBTQ+ community attended. The Friends Meeting House now holds meetings for commitment and celebration for civil partnership ceremonies. So the police must have been relieved that Leveson's conclusion was that "the issue is about perception more than integrity." The police must feel they have been let off with a conditional discharge.

Heymann, C. David (2008). American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy. Atria Books. ISBN 978-0743497398.Born in Glasgow into a "Scottish Presbyterian, respectable working class" family, Junor was raised in what he later described as "a red-stone tenement in Shannon Street in Maryhill... [in] a two roomed-flat without indoor sanitation", although by the time he was in his teens he was living with his parents and brothers in a more spacious flat with three rooms and a kitchen in Oban Drive. [4] [5] He attended North Kelvinside Secondary School (later merged into Cleveden Secondary School) before proceeding to study English Literature at Glasgow University. [4] [6] As a student he was "violently anti-Fascist, anti-Franco, above all anti-Hitler", and in 1938 he became president of the university's Liberal Club. [7] Shortly before graduation, Junor was recruited by the Liberal Party activist Lady Glen-Coats to accompany her on a fact-finding tour of the Third Reich; they reportedly only managed to escape Germany days before the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. [3] I wonder if it's peculiar to the British psyche to deify non-religious heroes, seeing them wholly good as opposed to just human?