OutStories Bristol

Want to get involved in gathering LGBT oral history?

Come to the briefing session for current and prospective interviewers to plan and kick off the next round of interviews.

Monday, 2nd December 2013 for two hours starting at 7pm.

Call or text Charlie on 07802 422091 for venue.

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Photo: Brand Davidson. Graphic design: Marcus FitzGibbon.

Twilight Men and Cake Shop Ladies:
The Press Treatment of Homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s

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A talk by Robert Thompson, chair of the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA)

In an age when sources of information were limited, the press was the main medium in which the debate on decriminalising male homosexual behaviour reached the British public. But the press didn’t merely report the issue, it shaped the debate and its variant portrayals of homosexual men and women are not always dissimilar from those we see today. Fully illustrated. Contains nudity.

Part of the Hall-Carpenter Archives and based at The Bishopsgate Institute in the City of London, LAGNA houses over 200,000 cuttings taken from the non-gay press on all LGBT matters since the late Nineteenth Century.

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Saturday 16 November 2013, 2pm to 3:30pm
M Shed Museum,   Princes Wharf,   Wapping Road,   Bristol,   BS1 4RN

Free entry
Fully accessible building
Location map

Book your place with Eventbrite
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OutStories Bristol’s Annual General Meeting

Robert’s talk will followed at 3:30pm by our AGM that will include:

• A review of the last year’s activities and achievements.
• A look forward to our plans for the coming year.
• A question and answer session providing an opportunity for you to give your ideas and suggestions.
• A financial report.
• A proposal to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. This will permit OutStories Bristol to enter into contracts in its own right and remove from our trustees personal liability for any debts.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Only registered members of OutStories Bristol will  be permitted to vote on AGM motions.

Feb 2013: ‘Revealing Stories’ exhibition project team with the Lord Mayor
(Photo: Matt Seow)

May 2013: Catherine Littlejohns of M-Shed receives our audio recordings

Feb 2013: Writer & director Neil Bartlett at MShed

July 2012: Andy Foyle with donations
(Photo: Mathew White, Scequet)

OutStories Bristol’s highly successful ‘Revealing Stories’ exhibition is to be displayed in Bristol’s City Hall (formerly known as the Council House) from Monday 8th to Thursday 11th July 2013 – during Bristol Pride week.

The exhibition is based on archival records and oral history interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people associated with Bristol and the surrounding area. Focusing on living memory (c. 1940s to the present) it tells how people fought to shape and control their own lives. It is the story of those who witnessed these changes and helped to make history.

Another chance if you missed it at M Shed!

Note: this display comprises the vertical text panels only; it doesn’t include any of the objects that were in display cases at M Shed.

OPENING DATE CHANGED:
Now Monday 8 July to Thursday 11 July 2013
In the entrance foyer of Bristol City Hall (formerly the Council House),  College Green,  Bristol,  BS1 5TR
8:30 am to 7 pm

Note:  we will have to dismantle the exhibition from about 5pm on Thursday 11 July.

Our sincere apologies to those inconvenienced by the incorrect opening date previously given.

Do you have ideas for our next project? Tell us on Facebook and come to the open forum on 23 July

OutStories Bristol’s highly successful ‘Revealing Stories’ exhibition is to be displayed in Yate library from 9th to 27th September 2013. The exhibition will be part of South Gloucestershire’s Discover Festival 2013.

The exhibition is based on archival records and oral history interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people associated with Bristol and the surrounding area. Focusing on living memory (c. 1940s to the present) it tells how people fought to shape and control their own lives. It is the story of those who witnessed these changes and helped to make history.

Monday 9th to Friday 27th September 2013
Yate Library

in shopping centre, opposite Argos
44 West Walk          Yate          BS37 4AX

For opening times, see Yate Library website

Please note:  this display comprises vertical text panels only; it doesn’t include any of the objects that were in the original exhibition at Bristol’s M Shed during February/March.

We are creating a touring version of our Revealing Stories exhibition and already have displays planned for Bristol City Hall and the main libraries in Bath, Yate and Weston-super-Mare. You can read details of our plans in this update report.

Contact us if you would like to get involved in making the touring version of the exhibition. The first planning session is in Bristol on the evening of Wednesday 1st May. You are welcome to come along.

Revealing Stories exhibition, M Shed

OutStories Bristol are staging ‘Revealing Stories’, Bristol’s first ever exhibition of LGBT history, at M Shed throughout February 2013 and coinciding with LGBT History Month.

Focusing on living memory (c. 1950s to the present) the exhibition will tell the story of how people in Bristol started to build LGBT communities and define our role in wider society. It will be followed by a traveling exhibition that will tour public libraries in Bath, Yate and Weston-super-Mare.

Find out more – and get involved!

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.

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.

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.