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Studies in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender lives The London Borough of Southwark marks LGBT History Month 2010 with a photography installation, featuring profiles of some members of its LGBT community. Another side of the rainbow demonstrates that there's more to sexual orientation than any one symbol can capture or communicate - even when it's the universally recognised rainbow flag. The exhibition combines the photography of Rehan Jamil with segments from the life stories of the participants, resulting in an installation that ultimately celebrates the commonalities of the human condition. Profiles include: The Worshipful Mayor of Southwark, Councillor Jeff Hook, LGBT rights activists Peter Tatchell and Sue Sanders, Supt Steve Deehan, Southwark Police, & Canon Giles Goddard, St John's, Waterloo.
For LGBT herstory month Bird Club bring you a celebration of the good old days when everyone had to be one thing or the other. Strict Dress Code: Butch - Femme - Wimmin's Libber - Can't-make-mind-up-social-outcast.* Music: Post-war to 1975 with Lin Sangster Second set: To be confirmed Acts: Lois Weaver - Violetta Vendetta - Bird la Bird plus more £ 8/6 * This event is for queer people and our friends of any gender. Anyone can pretend to be a lady or a gentleman.
Readings of poetry and prose expressing same sex desire from ancient Greece to modern times. Readings by Rebecca Steele, Daniel Dresner and Paul Chapman
NHS Kingston on behalf of Kingston LGBT Forum has managed to secure a travelling exhibition (from a Heritage Lottery Funded Project) Lesbian and Gay News Media Archive (LAGNA) project: '1967 and All That'. This exhibition comprises of material from the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive and the Hall-Carpenter Archive. The exhibition has already been on display in a number of venues within the Greater London area. This exhibition, using archives from the Hall-Carpenter Archives of lesbian and gay activism and press cuttings from the collection of the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive, puts the campaign for law reform in its historical context, charts the progress of reform proposals through parliament and illustrates the impact the change in law had on the gay rights movement.
NHS Kingston on behalf of Kingston LGBT Forum has managed to secure a travelling exhibition (from a Heritage Lottery Funded Project) Lesbian and Gay News Media Archive (LAGNA) project: '1967 and All That'. This exhibition comprises of material from the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive and the Hall-Carpenter Archive. The exhibition has already been on display in a number of venues within the Greater London area. This exhibition, using archives from the Hall-Carpenter Archives of lesbian and gay activism and press cuttings from the collection of the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive, puts the campaign for law reform in its historical context, charts the progress of reform proposals through parliament and illustrates the impact the change in law had on the gay rights movement.
Artangel Interaction with Satoko Fujishiro, presents readings from Staying, by artist Oreet Ashery. Jerusalem-born British artist Ashery has collaborated with lesbian asylum seekers, developing characters, stories, drawings, and poems from their experiences of suffering traumatising discrimination, because of their sexual orientation, in their home countries. These have been brought together in a publication available for download at www.artangel.org.uk Join us for readings from the publication and a discussion of the project.
The main event for your History Month diary 2010! Multi-talented, multi-media, multiaward- winning presenter and performer Amy Lame will be our star host for a fabulous free event where everyone's welcome. Join us for stunning entertainment and music, enlightening speeches and delicious food. Be part of LGBT History Month in your community and get the low-down on local networks, services and groups like the Tower Hamlets LGBT Community Forum. Get in touch for full details of the evening's programme or check out the website for this and other events in the area during History Month 2010.
Overview: This talk will provide an illustrated overview of aspects of what is now called 'queer cinema'. Developing out of, and against, the 'positive images' trend of representing alternative forms of sexual desire, the 'new queer cinema' of the early 1990s was both a polemical response to the AIDS crisis and a developing new aesthetic of aggressively self-aware queer image making. In the early 90s the term referred specifically to certain films and filmmakers, largely within the North American context of independent, art-house cinema. Along with the contemporaneous development of queer theory and politics, the notion of (a) queer cinema has become more widely used, suggesting a body of work which has become more international in both focus and appeal. However, some spaces and times seem queerer than others and the talk will also address what happens when the queer emerges in cultures which differ from the context out of which queer cinema developed. The talk will be illustrated with film clips from, amongst others, the work of Derek Jarman, Gregg Araki, Francois Ozon and Gael Morel.
Ajamu of Rukus! will discuss the current work of the Black Archive Project collecting oral histories of black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the UK. Free and open to all.
Equity and the Federation of Entertainment Unions presents The Dramatic Lives of Edith Craig, actor, director, costumier and theatre pioneer, with Dr Katherine Cockin, biographer of Edith Craig (1869 – 1947). Katherine will give a talk on Craig's place in twentieth-century theatre history and lesbian history, her activities in the British women's suffrage movement and relationship to feminism. Craig was responsible for numerous firsts on the British stage but her contribution has been repetitively written out. She is one of Britain's most important, but least famous theatre directors who learnt many of her skills as a costumier and performer at the Lyceum Theatre, London, with Sir Henry Irving and mother, Dame Ellen Terry. George Bernard Shaw was to remark on the surprising state of affairs in the Terry family, whereby Edward Gordon Craig was famous but produced relatively few plays whereas his sister, Edith Craig, was little known but appeared to have produced everything. Craig was responsible for the Pioneer Players theatre society and she flourished in the period before the historic moment in 1928 when lesbianism was the subject of public censure, on the trial and censorship of the novel The Well of Loneliness, written by her friend and neighbour Radclyffe Hall. Help us celebrate and reclaim Edith Craig's place in history. The event is free but places are strictly limited and registration is necessary: for a place email mbeckmann@equity.org.uk We will also be showcasing a new series of portraits of LGBT film actors, directors and filmmakers, commissioned by the UK Film Council to raise the debate about the demand for greater on-screen diversity.
An exploration of gay and lesbian themes in popular music, from early blues, through musicals to rock and roll...with songs and chat, presented by Gay Liberation Front veteran, Ted Brown, and LGBT Activist, Brett Lock.
