Pride in Our Past Exhibition opens in Plymouth

The Heritage Lottery funded Pride in Our Past exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery opened to the public on 28th April. Over 100 invited guest joined volunteers and contributors at an evening reception and private view held on Friday May 4th. This thought-provoking exhibition is based on new research into the City’s LGBT communities and includes personal stories, objects, photographs...

May 6th, 2012 by Pride in Plymouth 
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Patrick Gale to visit Plympton Library 21st March 2012

Openly gay author Patrick Gale will be visiting Plympton Library to talk about his new book ‘A Perfectly Good Man‘ on Wednesday 21st March at 7pm. There will be refreshments and books will be available for signing or Pre order your copy from Amazon to receive it in time to take with you. The new novel, a companion volume to the Richard and Judy bestseller ‘Notes from an Exhibition‘,...

February 22nd, 2012 by Pride in Plymouth 
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Beijing Blur: James West (2009) Book Review

I wanted to read this story, of an Australian journalists 12 months in china, partly because I’d spent a month there during the pre-Olympic buzz of 1997. The dragons economy was booming and the clash between old and new was apparent everywhere. Communism and capitalist entrepreneurialism were very strange bedfellows indeed and I remember pondering this madness as I sat in Häagen-Dazs in downtown...

June 8th, 2011 by Alan P 
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