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February 2013: LGBT History Month Events

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Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans History Month takes place every year in February and celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community.

LGBT Bristol have produced a programme of all local LGBT History Month activities as a pdf leaflet and plain text Word document.

OutStories Bristol are co-ordinating a number of events including:

A month-long exhibition at Mshed, revealing the lives of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Trans people in Bristol, from 1950 to today.
A talk by novelist, playwright and director Neil Bartlett.
An exploration of the life of Michael Dillon, and his role in Trans history.
Guided history walks in Bristol and Bath
A cycle tour of locations associated with Bristol’s most pre-eminent gay icon.

You can view all OutStories Bristol and linked events in our Future Events listings or our Eventbrite booking page.

1 Feb 2013: LGBT History Month launch party

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Friday 1 February 2013, 5pm – 8.30pm

Conference Hall, City Hall (formerly The Council House), College Green, Bristol

Telephone: 0117 353 4621

Hosted by LGBT Bristol and supported by The Diversity Trust

The event is to celebrate the start of LGBT History Month and to launch the Diversity in Primary Schools Project. LGBT Bristol will be providing refreshments. There will be entertainment from Sing Out Bristol towards the end of the evening.

If you are involved with an LGBT organisation LGBT Bristol would like to invite you to talk for a few minutes about your group or organisation at the open mic session. Space for publicity materials will also be available.

Please let LGBT Bristol know if you plan to attend by email

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

1 Feb and 2 Feb 2013: Performance – “Move Over Darling”

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Move Over Darling
1st & 2nd February, at 4:30pm and 7pm
Bristol Old Vic, King Street BS1 4ED

A walkabout performance by Tom Marshman. Part of Bristol Ferment Fortnight. Made up almost entirely of testimonies of the over 60’s about LGBT life in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s

Free event: BUT booking is necessary as places are limited
Booking: bristololdvic.org.uk or on 0117 987 7877

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

2 Feb 2013: Talk – Neil Bartlett

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Saturday 2 February, 2.30pm

M-Shed, Princes Wharf, Bristol, BS1 4RN.

Neil Bartlett is a writer, director and performer whose work is steeped in the histories of gay men’s lives. In this event, he will talk about his work, which includes his first book, Who Was That Man? about Oscar Wilde, published in 1988. He has written several novels, including Mr Clive & Mr Page (which weaves together the stories of Gordon Selfridge and Rock Hudson) and numerous plays, including A Vision of Love Revealed In Sleep, about gay Jewish East End artist Simeon Solomon.

This event is free, but donations to OutStories Bristol project gratefully received
Please book your place via Eventbrite or on the door.

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

3 February: John Addington Symonds Cycle Tour

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Symonds in the 1880s: CC National Portrait Gallery, London.

Image courtesy of npg.org.uk.

Sunday 3 February, 11.00am

Departing from Queen’s Square, Bristol

CycleOut leads a guided bicycle tour of the life of John Addington Symonds. Born in Clifton in 1840, Symonds was an early advocate for the legitimacy of same-sex love, and the writer of several pioneering works. The cycle tour will cover about 10 miles at a relaxed pace, stopping at significant locations from Symonds’ childhood and personal life.

The tour departs from the King William statue at centre of Queen’s Square, Bristol (or outside Graze bar on corner if access to square restricted.) The event is free, but donations to OutStories Bristol project gratefully received.

Accessibility: This is a two-hour event involving stop-start cycling at a relaxed pace to suit the group. The ride involves some hills.

Booking: You can book a place online (or just let us know you’re coming) at Eventbrite.

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

8 Feb 2013: Talk – Diana Souhami

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Friday 8 February, 7pm.

Bristol Central Library, College Green, BS1 5TL

Diana Souhami’s biographies explore the most influential and intriguing of 20thC lesbian (and gay) lives. The subjects of her unflinching eye include Radclyffe Hall, Garbo, Cecil Beaton, Gluck, and queens of the Parisian demimonde: Natalie Barney and Romaine Brookes. She has also written about the nurse Edith Cavell, and the story of her stay on ‘Robinson Crusoe’ island. Her latest book, Murder at Wrotham Hall, examines the case of a murder that took place in Kent shortly after WWII. All her books from Gluck to Coconut Chaos are being rereleased by Quercus in February, in paperback and Kindle formats.

Booking: please reserve tickets via Bristol Central Library, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TL, 0117 903 7200

This event is free, but donations to OutStories Bristol project gratefully received

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

16 Feb 2013: Talk – Michael Dillon: The Man Who Invented Transsexuals

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16 February 2013, 2.30pm

Studio 1, M-Shed, Princess Wharf BS1 4RN

Michael Dillon was the first person in the world to undergo medical gender transition from female to male. Oxford educated, he trained as a doctor and played a key role developing the modern medical view of transsexuals. He also assisted with the UK’s first male-to-female gender surgery. Cheryl Morgan explains how the modern history of trans people began here in Bristol, and how two World Wars helped make this gender revolution possible.

Booking: You can book a place online (or just let us know you’re coming) at Eventbrite.

Accessible Venue, see mshed.org for details. This event is free, but donations to OutStories Bristol project gratefully received

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

17 Feb 2013: Revealing Stories Exhibition – British Sign Language interpreted tour

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Sun 17 February, 11am

M-Shed, Princess Wharf, Bristol, BS1 4RN
Free British Sign Language interpreted tour of Bristol’s first ever LGBT history exhibition. Find out about Bristol’s LGBT past, and the ways people have fought to shape and control their lives since the 1950s. After the tour, join us to meet the exhibition team, and share your memories of LGBT Bristol!

Booking: please book online at Eventbrite.

This event is free, but donations to OutStories Bristol gratefully received.

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

17 Feb 2013: Mystery History Tour, British Sign Language Interpreted walk

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OutStories Bristol history walk, February 2011

Sunday 17th Feb, 1.30pm
Meet outside the Register Office, Corn Street; nearly opposite the Exchange and the Nails

Bristol historian and author Andrew Foyle leads an easy stroll (lasting around 1.5 hrs) through the city, lifting the curtain on our own peculiar and sometimes outrageous histories. He will be accompanied by British Sign Language interpreter.

Booking: please book online at Eventbrite, as places are limited. £3 suggested donation.

Accessibility: British Sign Language interpreted. Mostly level on city street terrain, using pedestrian crossing for major roads. One 20m uphill section; one 50m downhill section; approx 100 metres upward slope.

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

21 Feb 2013: Talk – From Scandal to Domesticity: Cartoon Images of Homosexuality

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Thursday 21 February, 19:30pm

Bristol Central Library, College Green
An illustrated talk by historian Robert Howes about the development of cartoons representing homosexuals, from the early 19th century to the present. Taking examples from Britain and other countries, the talk will show how images of homosexuality and LGBT people have been constructed through cartoons and caricatures. Starting with depictions of scandal by a usually hostile press, the talk will go on to show how LGBT cartoonists have used the medium to comment on the everyday incidents of domestic life.
Free event: no booking required, but donations to OutStories Bristol project gratefully received.

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

23 Feb 2013: Talk – Literary Trans-gressors

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M-Shed, Princes Wharf, Bristol, BS1 4RN.

Jack Wolf explores characters and writers who were (probably or possibly) transgender and discuss his research into real life 18^th/19^thC women who chose to live as men. He will also discuss the challenge of writing a trans character in a historical novel whose experiences are as real as possible yet still make sense to modern readers. Jack’s novel, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones, has just been published by Chatto & Windus.

Free event, but donations to OutStories Bristol project gratefully received

Booking: book your place online via Eventbrite, or on the day.

This event is one in a series for LGBT History Month in Bristol, February 2013. View our upcoming events and Eventbrite page, or visit LGBT Bristol for details of other LGBT History Month activities.

24 Feb 2013: LGBT History Walk around Bath

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Sunday, 24 February 2013 from 14:00 to 15:30pm

Meet at the War Memorial in Queen’s Parade, Bath

A walk around the centre of Bath, pointing out the buildings and monuments which have LGBT associations, either as places where people socialised or as meeting places for the LGBT movement over the last forty years. The walk should last about an hour and a half and finish back by the War Memorial, with the option of warming up in a local tea-shop. Led by Robert Howes of Gay West.

This is a free event but a donation to OutStories Bristol would be welcome. You can book your place online at Eventbrite.

Contact: 0800 321 3083

Accessibility: This is a short walk on the streets of central Bath on a wheel-chair accessible route.