LGBT social movements and gays. Veteran activists such as Sylvia Rivera and Beth Elliot were sidelined or expelled because they were transgender. In 1974, Maureen Colquhoun came out as the first Lesbian MP for the Labour Party in the UK. When elected she was married in a heterosexual marriage. In 1975, the groundbreaking film portraying homosexual gay icon Quentin Crisp's life, The Naked Civil Servant was transmitted by Thames Television for the British Television channel ITV. The British journal Gay Left also began publication. After British Home Stores sacked an openly gay trainee Tony Whitehead, a national campaign subsequently picketed their stores in
Alexander Maxwell (civil servant) Alexander Maxwell (civil servant) Sir Alexander Maxwell, (9 March 1880 – 1 July 1963) was a British civil servant notable for his service as Permanent Under-Secretary of State to the Home Office from 1938 to 1948. Maxwell was a hard worker and a superb administrator who was well regarded by his department and was particularly interested in civil liberty, even during the height of the Second World War, and also delinquency. Alexander Maxwell was born at Sharston Mount, Northen Etchells, Cheshire, on 9 March 1880, the eldest son of the Revd Joseph Matthew Townsend Maxwell, a Congregational minister, and his