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Hello,
My university asked me to chose a subject for a dissertation, and I chose "to what extend are gay people accepted in today's England"
Do you have any recommendation for sources I could use?
Thanks

Hi there!

I’m currently trying to finish my edit for a self-financed documentary that questions the contemporary relevance of the Pride parade by following participants in both London and Riga, the Latvian capital during their twinned events. In Riga, the situation for the marchers is pretty dire with right-wingers happily signing a petition for all homosexuals to be expelled from the country, whilst in London the participants feel their marching is of vital importance if true equality is ever to be achieved.

The documentary also dips into the history of how Pride itself actually kicked off, and how it transformed into the massive event it is today, as seen through the experiences of our contributors. For this, I am currently using some personal photographs from my contributors as well as some images from the Hall Carpenter Archives, but I’m afraid that there are several sections in the film where I really need to find some more pictures. I need these to be personal photographs as, with this being an entirely self-financed project, I simply cannot afford to pay photographic agencies. And this is where I hope you might be able to help me out / point me in the right direction!

The areas for which I am currently seeking additional visuals are:
- Any images of early US Prides / GLF US activism / Christopher Street in the 70s (a long shot, I know!)
- Early British activism – GLF onwards – including early Prides: anything that makes it clear this is gay activism taking control of its own future.
- Any photos from any of the ‘gay-ins’ that took place in the early 70s
- Any images protesting against Clause 28
- Any images of Lesbian Strength marches
- Some images of later Prides in the 90s.

I realise this is quite a list, so please let me assure you that I already have some images to cover each of these sections of the film! But in order to be able to provide a little bit more detail in each section I need some more pictures / cine footage of each.

I notice that on your website you have some great photographs of early Nottingham involvement in Pride demos, and I was just wondering if there was any possibility of me using these images – and any others you might have access to – in my film? Or if there is someone you can suggest I speak to in order to get permission to use these images?

I’ve only got a little time to finish this film – before I go back and do a real job! – so I’d really appreciate any advice / suggestions you might be able to give me at your earliest convenience.

With all best wishes,

Emma

Hi - could you send us a copy of your powerpoint "Famous LGBT" people presentation for use in events for managers/staff/public on Unison Equalities training events - this would be most useful for raising consciousness.

Wow what a great site. As someone that only moved here in the late 1990s it is great to see the history of the gay scene in Nottingham. Was a little surprised to see the gay/gay friendly "Real Art Cafe missed off the listings. I'll send you a pic. I now work for Healthy Gay Nottingham HGN, formerly GAI project, and find your site to be a great resource. Thanks x

There were lots of other gay friendly places such as: Yate's, The Exchange (now Squares I think) Oscar J Spielbergs.

The site is well laid out and informative. I'm bi, female, married and will get out of the house more often thanks to the site! Could places pop wheelchair access details in more often please? It really takes out life's spontaneity having to find phone numbers and ring in advance to find out whether i can get in or not. Thanks!

i am currently carrying out a project covering HIV/AIDS and i have to say some of the gay people i know have no idea about this site .I think it is great !!! Keep up the good work LGSB and so happy you did get your funding !

What a wonderful resource - thank you all those who have contributed.

I have looked around this site with great interest, having grown up in Nottingham during the 70's. The pictures & details of pubs etc. that were so long ago my regular haunts, has certainly brought a smile to my face. Incidentally, 'The Roebuck' was the very first gay pub I frequented, (before I was legally old enough to drink!) I'm sure it's fair to say it was a little on the rough side, but I don't think I would have refered to it as a flea pit! It was there I had my first pint of Stella & learnt to play pool. Such fond memories

Why are there only gay male recollections in the pre-1967 memories section? I have no idea what the experiences for lesbians in Britain during the war and post-war period were, and I can't find information about it anywhere.


Yes, ef, you are quite right. The project through which 20 interviews were done had no budget to try to recruit interviewees and there was only a 4 month period in which to do the interviews - this led to a) a very even spread of ages from 25-85 and b) not too great a disparity between men (12) and women(8), but while 3 of the men were between 73 and 85, the oldest woman was in her mid sixties and her experiences only just pre-date the 1967 period. I will, however, transfer some of her comments on to the website.

The 3 BBC TV programmes "It's Not Unusual" had many interviews with older lesbians - if you can get hold of copies, you should find them interesting. If the 3 year, potentially well funded Nottinghamshire's Rainbow Heritage project gets off the ground, there will be much more time (and money) to ensure a bigger and more representative sample - we already have a 90 year old lesbian who has agreed to be interviewed.

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We are organizing a professional conference as part of the
EU announced 2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for
All and with the support of the Ministry of Social Affairs
and Labour(Hungary) at the Faculty of Arts at the University
of Debrecen. The conference will be coordinated by the
Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation and will involve other
faculties and universities furthermore international
relations. The topic is homosexuality in the view of
different scientific approaches.
We have dealt with all this scientific spectrum at the
University of Debrecen in the recent years, involving a
number of academics. We are planning to represent this work
at the conference.
With the consent of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee
the Faculty of Arts at the University of Debrecen is going
to organize an ECTS Conference about this topic from the
next year on, which would be suppletory in the whole E.U.
The conference follows a social discourse and it openly
discusses topics for which the self organization of the
gaypeople is not enough since it only means only a
unilateral approach which has got irate reactions if any at all.



We are requesting you to be partners in this.

Dr.Habil. Bujalos, István, prodean of the Faculty of Arts at
the University of Debrecen, and director of the Philosophy
Institute in the name of the Faculty of Arts at the Uni. of
Debrecen
Coordinators:
Forgó, Zsuzsanna:0036 30 9425061, forgo@forgovilag.hu és
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From the Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation.

re your list of gay venues: wasn't The Newmarket on Lower Parliament St significantly gay or gay-friendly in the mid1990s?
.................. Yes, Simon, I think "gay-friendly" or at least "not gay-unfriendly" was a reasonable description and it's still true to some extent. The venues that are pictured were/are all either predominantly gay at some time or were straight/mixed venues that had occasional specifically gay nights. My thinking is coloured by experience of Switchboard's database on which the Newmarket never featured as a primary gay venue.

hey its good 2 know i can find @ website as this and 2 know that am not alone thank you

Thanks for letting me know about this site. It certainly did bring back memories. La Chic!! I'll be back.

A wonderful collection of information - we would love to see a presentation or stand at our one day conference on Sexuality in Social Work and Social Care in London South Bank University on Friday 20th October 2006.

I really enjoyed your site, especially your own archive with pictures of items that are representative of your history.

I'm currently studying an MA in museum studies at Leicester University and most of my work is on the interpretation of LGBT and intersex objects in museums and society. I'm going to use your site (if that's o.k!) of the possibilities for interpretation in my work.

I'd be interested if anyone had any thoughts/information/contacts/recommendations regarding the interpretation of sexualities and genders in museums.

Thanks!

Katy

Great Site! Really enjoyed looking through it all, very handy!

Brill site people!

i'd like to access the archives for an assignment i'm working on. I'm doing an MA in social history at leicester and am doing an assignment on 'a vice of my choice' mmm...

Anyway what i'm looking at is the different attitudes to gay men v lesbians in the 1960s, based on public perception and use of public space - all very woolly but that's life in academia.

i'm particulaly interested in access to gay news and the oral testimony.

regards

mo cooper

With a thirty year history of involvement as a volunteer here in Nottingham I enjoyed your site. I was publicly elected Chair of NAIP, Nottingham Aids Information Project, I was a working "buddy" and also a volunteer counsellor with the FRIEND organisation. Regards.

As an ex-Nottingham guy I found a lot of the site brought back happy memories. The legal stuff is also very useful. Thanks

Fascinating .... and informative. Thanks

Looking at your site brought back a lot of memories, ahh saturday evening at the scala, never did see a film all the way through. And the Handbag Club. I have put a link in Breakout's site to your site i'm sure many of our members will enjoy this walk down memory lane. Ray.

Hi there, taken a look at the site and its great, really informative.

Hi, my name is Richard and I'm a First Year Rep at the University of Nottingham. I was wondering if it would be possible to obtain a copy of the materials which you have (book, CD, interviews etc). Thanks very much, Richard