phone calls from an office in St Mary's Street and later the Rights Information Bureau on Charles Street. The Rights Information Bureau also held offices for the Gay Liberation Front group and the Nationwide Transvestite Group (an early Trans organisation) from 1971. In the 1980s there were a number of LGBT+ venues in Cardiff including the Tunnel Club (now Metros), Dubrovnik Restaurant and SIRS. The city's oldest gay venue Kings Cross ceased to be an LGBT+ venue in 2013 when it became a gastropub called The Corner House. The 1980s also saw Cardiff's first dedicated gay street theatre groups, LGBTQ+ community centres and youth clubs. As well as cruising areas being established, most popular being Bute Park, public toilets in Cathays Park and Cardiff Central Station. Inspired by London's Gay Switchboard, Zoe Balfour started Cardiff Lesbian Line in October 1981, which ran until at least the 1990s. 1988 saw Cardiff hold a Wales Against Section 28 protest, alongside other city demonstrations across the UK. By the end of the century parallel roads Charles Street and Churchill Way had become heart of LGBTQ+ Cardiff, including Minskys, a popular cabaret and drag bar which eventually closed 2020. The early 2000s saw the popular LGBTQ+ club night Hell's Bent in Cardiff, the short lived WOW bar on Churchill Way and gay representation on Russell T. Davies' era of writing Doctor Who and it's spin off Torchwood series, both set in Cardiff. In 2007 the Iris Prize was formed in Cardiff which celebrates LGBTQ+ short films. It has an annual festival screening films open to the public. Pride in Cardiff The first iteration of Pride held in Cardiff was in 1985, which was a parade on Queen Street in the city centre organised by Cardiff University students (principaly their GaySoc/Cardiff Lesbian and Gay Stidents group). Organiser Francis Brown remembers attendance being less than 30 but Noreena Shopland's Forbidden Lives cites over 100 attendees. The march continued annually in the following years 1986 and 1987, finishing at the Kings Cross pub. Later the first Cardiff Mardi Gras was held in September 1999, and has happened annually since, usually in September, it has since changed its name to the national festival Pride Cymru. Notable residents Those identifying as LGBTQ+ past and present: Ivor Novello Stephen Doughty Felicity Evans Lisa Power Gareth Thomas (rugby) Laura McAllister Jess Fishlock Nathan Wyburn La-Chun Lindsay David Llewellyn Scott McGlynn Norena