GLOW offered a range of resources and produced a monthly Glowletter featuring organisational updates, advertisements for pen pals, and international gay rights news. GLOW organised the continent’s first pride march, organised Miss Glow drag competitions and co-drafted the Lesbian and Gay Charter.

GLOW’s Lesbian Forum was conceived of as a safe place for women and femme-identified members. This was especially significant in a period when most of the LGBTQIA+ groups were  male-dominated and focussed on issues of men and when in 1988, the Sexual Offences Act raised the age of consent for lesbian sex from 16 to 19 (the heterosexual age of consent was 16.) This had not been regulated by law before. The forum published its own newsletter separate from the GLOW newsletter and it was titled “Wet Velvet”.