Dudley Cave, by Wendyl Harris.

To celebrate LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari is publishing a daily series of LGBT Heroes, selected by the magazine’s team of writers and special contributors.

“His awareness of the struggles facing bereaved LGBT partners in a society that gave them no legal recognition – exclusion from a lover’s funeral, eviction from a joint home, denial of inheritance – led Dudley and Bernard to found the Lesbian and Gay Bereavement Project in 1980.”

Bona Equality.

Yvonne Aburrow recalls a reading of the Bible in Polari and writes about the role of the Unitarians in achieving LGBT equality.

“Before Polari became the name of this online magazine it was a secret form of language, spoken mostly by gay men and lesbians, with a complex and eclectic history encompassing drag queens, actors, travelling circus people, sailors, Italians, American airforce men and even Punch and Judy entertainers.”