Shining a Light on Plymouth's LGBT Life Past and Present
The LGBT community has always been subjected to hate crime. In1990 the direct action group OutRage’ was set up by Peter Tatchell after the actor, Michael Boothe was murdered in West London. In Plymouth just after midnight on Tuesday 7 November 1995 the bodies of two men were found lying 200 yards apart in Central Park. One of the men Terry […]
The Allfellas newsletter published in the Autumn of 1995 this manually typed and formatted newsletter was photocopied on A3 paper and tri folded to make a tall narrow booklet. On the front cover there is a tribute to Terry Sweet a founder member of the Allfellas group who was brutally murdered in Central Park (7th […]
The ALLFELLAS Gay Social Group newsletter published in the summer of 1994 (ten years before facebook was launched). The scan and photos do not do justice to the amount of work and creativity that went into producing this news letter, the content was typed and many of the illustrations drawn by hand. The newsletter was […]
ALLFELLAS was a gay social group that met on Wednesdays and organised various social events for gay men in Plymouth through the early 1990’s. This is a hand crafted poster promoting the group. Related links: Allfellas newsletter summer 1994 Allfellas newsletter Autumn 1995
In Other Words is a Vital Sparks funded project seeking to provide new and more established LGBT+ writers for the stage in Plymouth with a crucial creative resource. In Other Words is working in partnership with Plymouth’s LGBT community, Pride in Plymouth,Plymouth LGBT Archive, We’ll Meet In Moscow, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, Dreadnought … [Read More...]
This May (2015) has been an exciting month for Pride in Plymouth CIC . . . and the Plymouth LGBT Archive project, which it continues to support. On the 20th May, as part of Plymouth’s History Festival month, Alan Butler took a group of intrepid explorers on walk around the city centre to experience a little of the LGBT history which … [Read More...]
LGBT History Month News
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