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UK: MI5 "has security Pink List"

01 November 1997

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The internal security service, MI5, routinely keeps files on lesbian and gay civilians, according to a former Commander in the Royal Navy. Duncan Lustig-Prean, chair of Rank Outsiders, the support group for lesbian and gay service personnel, has stated that the intelligence agencies have created a "pink list" which includes anyone thought by MI5 to be homosexual.

Lustig-Prean is quoted by the Pink Paper as saying: "I know at least two of our members who are involved in security work have within the last month been required to use the pink list as part of their work...the private sexual preferences of ordinary citizens are also listed, cross-referenced to any partners or gay contacts known to the agencies. The list has to my certain knowledge, frequently been used in gay witchhunts which continue in the military." When asked by the Pink Paper for their reaction to the article MI5 declined to respond.

Pink Paper 5.9.97.

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