Archive issues call-out for photos of the UK’s first National Pride in Huddersfield in 1981 The UK’s first ever national Pride took place in Huddersfield on 4th July 1981* . To mark the fortieth anniversary, a series of arts and archive events will take place until autumn 2022. Part of these events is call-out from […]
We are now live on YouTube! There are currently 55 videos, stretching as far back as 1987, including footage of CHE founder and father of gay rights Allan Horsfall, Schools OUT UK patron Sir Ian McKellen, Stuart Milk and Sir Derek Jacobi, as well as various interviews and talks with Professor Sue Sanders and the […]
by Peter Scot-Presland We had a little group ready to do readings of two short plays/librettos from the cycle the Gay Century, as a way of choosing which would be appropriate to take to Belfast as part of the LGBT history festival there. This got blown away by the lockdown. The Gay Century is a […]
Ancient House Teenage History Club created this film to inspire other museums to find LGBTQ+ object in their collections and encourage better representation of queer stories in all museums. Part of Kick the Dust Norfolk – a National Lottery Heritage Fund project. It’s the first day of @LGBTHM and we are proud to premier @AHTeenHC‘s […]
‘Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side….’ Have a listen to Radio 6’s The Tom Robinson Show from last Saturday. A three-hour musical queer-fest to celebrate LGBT History Month 2016! Listen here until March 20th: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07183l6 or download the MP3 of the show here (164Mb) (click the link to listen or right click to download) […]
>The director Ian Rickson talks to Carole Woddis about his hit West End production of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour (Comedy Theatre), which stars Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in a play that was scandalous on its first outing in 1934, and continues to be relevant. Recorded at Graeae. You can listen to the interview […]
>Ishmael, an openly gay Kenyan man living in the small coastal town of Mtwapa, just north of Mombasa, says that many gay men have come to live here, attracted by its open-minded and liberal atmosphere. But this image of the town has been overshadowed by an increasingly vocal and mobilised anti-gay campaign which has been […]
>The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation presents the first person documentary Middle C, in which Tristan R. Whiston chronicles his year-long gender transition from woman to man – through the change in his singing voice. Tristan first performed as solo soprano at the age of six. Years of hard work led to an accomplished singing career. But […]
>The BBC Radio 4 series that explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people, returns with “Once Upon A Time” by Amanda Whittington – a “touching, coming of age drama set in 1979 based on the diary of a gay teenager living in a Nottinghamshire mining town”. Based on the 1979 […]
