Festival spotlight on gay culture in Lancashire (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Festival spotlight on gay culture in Lancashire
9:34am Wednesday 18th January 2012 in Burnley
A MONTH long celebration of Lancashire’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history is taking place next month.
During lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender, LGBT, history month in February museums, libraries and archives in Lancashire will join together to host six countywide fun and creative events, aimed at increasing awareness of their culture and heritage.
Lancashire County Council’s archives office is building a Pink Collection of records devoted to LGBT culture, past and present.
Kathryn Rooke, an archivists at the Record Office, said: “We are asking the LGBT community for deposits or loans of papers, newsletters, minutes, letters, diaries, photographs, posters, leaflets and more.
History is made every day and we should be celebrating it, not hiding it.
“We also need people who would like to share their own personal histories for 10 minutes at our ‘Outing the Past 2’ event which takes place on February 25.”
Comments(11)
Dusty Snatchmonger
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11:00am Wed 18 Jan 12
Coeur de Lion wrote:Don't be so hard on yourself.
Pathetic!!!!!!
Billypieman
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11:20am Wed 18 Jan 12
peely
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11:54am Wed 18 Jan 12
thermio
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12:06pm Wed 18 Jan 12
Then everyone can embrace our rich 'melting pot' of diversity that this area affords to all of its residents.
Between_the_lions
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12:21pm Wed 18 Jan 12
Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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5:30pm Wed 18 Jan 12
Keep Darwen Green
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6:58pm Wed 18 Jan 12
Michael@ClitheroeSinProbably one in the same who in order to forget, injects himself with cannabis :0).
ce58 wrote:
Statistically at least 1 of the above posters is probably Gay now which one is it?
Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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7:09pm Wed 18 Jan 12
Keep Darwen Green wrote:Cracked me up that :)
Michael@ClitheroeSinProbably one in the same who in order to forget, injects himself with cannabis :0).
ce58 wrote:
Statistically at least 1 of the above posters is probably Gay now which one is it?
Mister Red
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4:15pm Fri 20 Jan 12
Coeur de Lion
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9:56am Sun 22 Jan 12
Between_the_lions wrote:I went into PC World this morning and I didn't see any Gays.
So, will there be a month long festival celebrating not being gay (can we still say straight in this PC world?)
Coeur de Lion says...
10:18am Wed 18 Jan 12