Activism
In the 1960s she joined the Minorities Research Group and wrote for its journal, Arena Three. She would also regularly promote the magazine in the Gateways club.
Later on, she 'came out' publicly in 1969 when she joined the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) and went to serve on its Executive Committee.
In 1970, she was a founder member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in London. She was on the first Gay Pride march in the UK in August 1971.
In 1972 she was one of the founders of Sappho, which was a social group and one of the UK's longest-running lesbian publications (Sappho magazine was published from 1972 to 1981, although the group continued to meet regularly for many more years). The Sappho group members used to meet in The Chepstow Pub in Notting Hill and had public speakers such as Maureen Duffy and Anna Raeburn.
After Sappho, Jackie became a member of the a member of Greater London Council's Women's Committee.
From 1992 till her death in 1998 she was an active member of the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre management Committee. In 1997 a BBC film crew came to the archive to film Jackie for a programme about her life which was to be part of 'The Day That Changed My Life' series. Her work has made a huge impact on shaping the archive.
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