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
Announcing PRIDE in the PARK 2012
We are very proud to announce Plymouth will have a Gay Pride Celebration this year and it will be Plymouth’s first proper outdoor Pride. PRIDE in the PARK will take place on Saturday 28th July 2012 in the glorious grounds of Devonport Park. Pavilion Cafe The event will be centred around the new bandstand which will provide the main stage, there will be marquees for health, LGBT History and a...
March 25th, 2012 by Pride in Plymouth
Warren Cup to be exhibited in Plymouth as part of the Pride in Our Past exhibition
The Pride in Our Past team with staff from the City Museum and Art Gallery has come up trumps with the British Museum in London agreeing to loan the Warren Cup to Plymouth for the Pride in Our Past exhibition. The Warren Cup is in the top 100 UK artefacts a museum can exhibit – An ancient Roman drinking cup made from solid silver with relief decoration of homoerotic scenes, this object takes...
March 13th, 2012 by Pride in Plymouth
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Pride in Our Past Photography Competition Presentation 18th Feb Plymouth Arts Centre
The Heritage Lottery Funded ‘Pride in Our Past’ project are creating an archive of LGBT life in Plymouth and are holding a series of informal drop ins where you can come along to share your stories or bring any memorabilia or artefacts that may be of interest. On Saturday 18th February we hope to present the lucky winner of our photography competition with their £250 prize as part of...
February 3rd, 2012 by Pride in Our Past
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Pride in Our Past LGBT History Month Film
Pride in Our Past team up with Peninsula arts screening the award winning film A Single Man staring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. 8.15pm Thursday 23rd February 2012. Jill Craigie Cinema Roland Levinsky Building (Plymouth University) To book your FREE tickets call the Box Office 01752 58 50 50 Normal opening hours are 1:00pm-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. The Box Office is closed Saturday, Sunday and...
February 2nd, 2012 by Pride in Plymouth
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Update From Pride in Our Past – January News
The January newsletter from the Pride in Our Past team has been published and it is all systems go for the team as they work on the design and content of the Exhibition that will run for nine weeks from April 28th 2012. They have also started building the on-line Plymouth LGBT History archive with some fascinating content already published. (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script");...
January 29th, 2012 by Pride in Our Past
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P175 and International Pink Triangle Holocaust Memorials
Paragraph 175 was a provision of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994. It made homosexual acts between males a crime. Although homosexuality was illegal under paragraph 175 of the criminal code, prior to the Third Reich it was rarely enforced. In the Reichstag, MPs were on the verge of securing its repeal. A new era of freedom seemed to be dawning. Then came Nazism. “We...
January 27th, 2012 by Pride in Plymouth
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2012 – The Alan Turing Year
It is fantastic to enter 2012 with the news that the Royal Mail are to honour Alan Turing on a 1st class stamp. The stamp will be released during LGBT History Month on the 23rd, February, 2012. The Alan Turing year marks the centenary of his birth on June 23rd 1912 and there will be events across the country to celebrate his life and achievements. Read More on GayStarNews Here in Plymouth we hope to...
January 4th, 2012 by Pride in Plymouth
eNews – Christmas 2011
Pride in Plymouth – eNews December 2011 Welcome to the special end of year Pride in Plymouth eNews for 2011, you have probably noticed that we haven’t published e-news for a while, we experienced a technical hitch with the integration with the blog that has left many experts on help forums puzzled. Even though this has not been fully resolved we will publish...
January 2nd, 2012 by Pride in Plymouth
Greatest Codebreaker – Heart Breaker now available on 4oD
If you missed the fantastic documentary about Alan Turing that focuses on his ‘discovery of computer science’ the beginning of the computer age, his homosexuality and his last few years. Then catch up on 4oD this is truly worth watching the ads on 4oD are frustrating but see the whole episode it is amazing and heart breaking. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-greatest-codebreaker/4od#3261692 The...
November 23rd, 2011 by Pride in Plymouth
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