The wonderful Keith Trotman worked at Greenwich Lesbian and Gay Centre from 1986-1995, beginning there aged 21, setting up crucial youth groups and later becoming Centre Manager... #LGBTHM21
https://twitter.com/metrocharity/status/1358800907547398144

... Before that as a teenager he had played a central role in the South London Gay Young People’s Group, inviting them in 1984 aged 18 to visit his school in Walworth and talk to the sixth form students about lesbian and gay rights... #LGBTHM21

Also as a teenager he went on television with his mother, to be interviewed by Esther Rantzen about being gay. He was one of the first black men in the UK to discuss this on daytime television.
In 1994 Keith drove with fellow activists from the South London Lesbian & Gay Young People’s Group in a minibus to Parliament Square to celebrate the lowering of the age of consent from 21 to 18. #LGBTHM21

This is Keith with his colleagues @METROCharity in 1995 when they launched the charity’s new HIV Prevention programme MetroThrust... #LGBTHM21

As far as we know Keith continued doing LGBTQ+ youth work after leaving Metro, but if you know more about him we’d love to know. Keith sadly died in 2011, but must be remembered by many whose lives he affected through his activism. #LGBTHM21

There is a short tribute to Keith at the West London NHS site here: https://westlondon.nhs.uk/news-events/lgbt-history-month-the-community-that-inspired-harry/
RIP Keith Trotman (1966-2011) - please share and if you know any more about Keith’s amazing work we’d love to know. #LGBTHM21
#blackgaymen #lgbtq

Finally this is Keith speaking on a documentary in 1986 about being gay in the workplace. What a guy
(clip from ‘In the Out-tray’, from @LdnMetArchives ) #LGBTHM21

