LAGCAR was formed to create a visible anti-racist voice of lesbians and gay men, and to help forge the unity needed to defeat racism, homophobia and bigotry.

LAGCAR believes that the fight of lesbians and gay men against homophobia cannot be seen in isolation. We need alliances with all communities — unity between lesbians and gay men, Black and Jewish communities, the trades unions and religious organisations, women and disabled people, students and young people.

LAGCAR believes people seeking asylum in Britain deserve respect and humane treatment. We believe aspects of Britain’s asylum law denies this to people fleeing persecution, torture and social dislocation. Lesbians and gay men suffer particular discrimination under asylum and immigration law.

LAGCAR is part of the National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR). LAGCAR has already received support from organisations such as Stonewall, Regard, UNISON National Lesbian and Gay Committee and lesbians and gay men in other trade unions as well as many individual lesbians and gay men. LAGCAR welcomes affiliation from lesbian and gay organisations and from lesbians and gay men. To join us, complete and return the membership form

Founding statement

Racism, homophobia and the activities of the fascist right are on the rise across Europe. Black and Jewish people, lesbians and gay men, disabled people all stand to lose from the growth of racism and reaction.

The fascist and extreme right organisations which are winning high numbers of votes in many European countries are violently homophobic. Defeating racism, and the right wing extremists who feed on it, is a precondition for the preservation of human and democratic rights.

Every concession by mainstream political parties and institutions legitimises it and encourages its most dangerous exponents on the streets and in the parties of the extreme right. The fascist right can only be permanently defeated on the basis of an agenda which centrally tackles racism at its roots.

To create a movement capable of confronting and defeating racism and the extreme right requires unity — unity between the black and Jewish communities, lesbians and gay men, disabled people, the trade unions, churches and faiths.

As an important step towards unity in the struggle against racism, the extreme right and homophobia, we call for support for the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism and the Anti-Racist Charter for the New Millennium launched from the National Assembly Against Racism in February 1995.

I/we wish to join the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism

I/we enclose an annual affiliation fee of £25 (lesbian and gay organisations) £5 (individual waged) £2 (individual unwaged)

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Please return to: LAGCAR, c/o NAAR, 28 Commercial St, London E1 6LS.