Category: Events
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Mental health awareness takes centre stage
A play about the hidden struggles of mental illness will reach a larger audience, thanks to support from a leading North East LGBTQ+ charity.
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Superbia Calls Aspiring LGBTQ Authors
Alan Turing’s legacy lives on as Manchester Pride’s year long calendar of cultural events Superbia is inviting young writers to enter a competition based on the WW2 genius and his LGBTQ+ heritage.
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«I’m From Driftwood» to Host 50-State Story
«I’m From Driftwood», the U.S online LGBTQ story archive, is gearing up for a 50-State Story Tour Exhibition in four U.S. cities during the month of May. The free events are part of a series of celebrations marking the organisation’s 10th anniversary. «I’m From Driftwood» has spent the last decade producing, curating, and publishing first-person stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people of all backgrounds.
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Amazing Star Line-up At Northern Pride Festival
An X Factor starlet and one of the biggest groups of the naughties are heading to the North East’s largest LGBTQ+ festival this summer.
Photo credit Daddy Alan Selby (right), aka Mr. S, and his boy, Johnie Garcia, at the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights (1993); photographer unidentified; collection of the GLBT Historical Society.
Multimedia Exhibition Highlights San Francisco Leather Pioneer, Mr. S Leather Founder «Daddy» Alan Selby
A new exhibition opening May 16 at the GLBT Historical Society Museum recounts the story of «Daddy» Alan Selby, the founder of the iconic South of Market leather and kink emporium Mr. S Leather, within the context of a changing SoMa neighbourhood and the emergence of a distinct leather and kink culture.
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Ultra-right activists hound European lesbian conference with tear gas
Ultra-right activists in Ukraine have attempted to derail a European lesbian conference in the capital of Kiev and scuffled with security guards.