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LGBT History Month February 2008 - Pieces of Eight
Look out for unusual photographic portraits of LGBT people from Brighton & Hove around the city in February. As this year’s contribution to the national campaign LGBT History Month, the LGBT Workers Forum at Brighton & Hove City Council is supporting Pieces of Eight, a new initiative representing the local community which will be shown in various locations around the streets and buildings of Brighton & Hove.
Created by Eric Page, Pieces of Eight is a series of photographic portraits of LGBT people who show us who we are. Eric says 'I have tried to capture a normal everyday portrait of each person, nothing posed and in a natural setting. I wanted the series to show us as a group of people, from the youngest to the oldest. To allow my subjects to step from behind the labels other people might put on them - Dyke, Asian, Vicar, Gay, Old, Woman, Young, Queer or any other of the myriad labels that attach themselves - and allow my subjects to look at us, looking at them. I wanted them to show us that they are only as old as they feel'.
Stark and unadorned, the photographs show what humour, time and experience has made of the people portrayed and thus how their breadth and variety make up 'Us-The LGBT whole'.
In order to give an idea of little secret bits of each person, a part of their own personal treasure, each subject was asked the same five questions and their answers have been incorporated into their portraits. These little parts make up their whole, in the same way that all the participants - from 18 to 80 years old - make up the whole of our world.
LESBIAN, GAY, BI-SEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITIES: WHERE WE HAVE COME FROM, WHERE WE ARE NOW, AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Delivered by: Sue Sanders Sue is a member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Advisory Group to the Metropolitan Police Service, an independent advisor to the London Criminal Justice Board a member of the NUT LGBT working party and a consultant to the Crown Prosecution Service, helping them produce national policy on prosecuting homophobic crime effectively. In spare moments she is also co-chair of School’s Out (a national organisation addressing the needs of LGB young people within the education system) and was responsible for instituting the UK's first LGBT History month.
This Master Class is part of the service's contribution towards celebrating LGBT History Month 2008.
Display panels exhibiting a selection of lesbian and gay books from the Brighton Ourstory archives (www.brightonourstory.co.uk). There is a leaflet guide to the exhibition and a selection of LGBT boooks to borrow from the library.
Explore the life and works of the notorious 1960s playwright and his love-hate relationship with Brighton. A lunchtime lecture with Rose Collis, journalist and author.
Like their creator, many of E F Benson's fictional characters were lesbian or gay - the society seeks to introduce non-members to the camp delights of the town of Tilling (Rye in thin disguise)and to the author, his family and his works.
