Jennie Lazenby is a photographer and documentary film-maker whose work is informed by her socialist, feminist and Lesbian and Gay activism. A founder member of the Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Project in 1982, from 1987 to 1988 she worked in Camden's Lesbian and Gay Unit. A proud lesbian adoptive parent and grandparent, she helped set up LAGFAPN (Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents Network) in the late 1980s with other Lesbian and Gay adoptive and foster parents. This group later became part of New Family Social.

Her photos have been published in Outright, Spare Rib and Trade Union publications, and have appeared on websites including that of the Unity Theatre Folk Club and londonspeakout.org Exhibitions of Lazenby’s work include her participation in the Loudest Whispers LGBT+ Art Exhibition (2017-2020). She was part of ensuring the publication of a Jessica Kingsley book ‘Lesbian and Gay Adoption: Extraordinary Yet Ordinary’ including writing for it, wrote for ‘Proud Parents’ (ed Nicola Hill; BAAF 2013) and ‘Write Women into History’ (2021). She has taken an active part in documentaries including ‘Not Only A Bookseller’ and Ashley Joiner’s ‘Are You Proud?’ (2019). Jennie is delighted for her photographic work and archive material to be housed at Bishopsgate alongside Sue Saunders and Schools Out, Maggie Murray and Brenda Prince and among notable others.

Scope and Content

Papers, posters, press cuttings, publications, banner and ephemera regarding issues and activism, including the organisation LAGFAPN (Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents Network); Clause 28; Pride; education; housing; employment rights and LAGER (Lesbian and Gay Employment Rights); AIDS and health; film-making and the arts; London Borough of Camden Council’s Lesbian and Gay Committee (also known as the Camden Lesbian and Gay Unit); Camden Lesbian Centre Project, [1982-2016]

Quantity

5 boxes, 2 oversized photographs and digital photography