Friday Launch Night: Back in Time 2

Shrewsbury LGBT History is abunch of volunteers plotting a fab month to celebrate LGBT Histories in February 2020, exploring more of those stories you never hear. Friends & straight allies definitely welcome#Salop20

Salopian Rainbows

It all begins at 6.15pm at University Centre Shrewsbury where you will be welcomed by Shrewsbury's Town Crier before the Festival is formally opened by The Mayor of Shrewsbury, Ioan Jones. 
This event is ticketed - tickets are free and limited to 4 per booking.
We are releasing 50 tickets initially with another 50 available from 3rd January to give people further afield, or not on social media a chance to see the publicity.
Our celebratory beginnings kick off with presentations from:
<A HREF="http://www.dianasouhami.co.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Diana Souhami</A> - Tales of Hidden Heroes: Lesbians and Modernism
Diana Souhami is the author of many highly praised books: Gluck: Her Biography; Gertrude and Alice; the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (winner of the US Lambda Literary Award for best gay writing and a New York Times  `Notable Book of the Year’); Greta and Cecil; The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and also winner of the US Lambda Literary Award); Selkirk's Island (winner of the Whitbread Biography award), Wild Girls: the Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks; Coconut Chaos;  Murder at Wrotham Hill  (shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Dagger Award) Edith Cavell (winner of the EDP Jarrold East Anglian Book of the Year award) and Gwendolen
<A HREF="https://shrewsburylgbthistory.org.uk/presentations-2017/true-colours/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Caroline Paige</A> -  True Colours: Trailblazing Transgender Service in the Military 
Caroline Paige retired from the Royal Air Force in Nov 2014 following a 35-year military career, as a navigator and tactics specialist, initially flying air-defence fighters and then battlefield helicopters. In 1999, she became the first officer to transition gender in the UK’s Armed Forces, and to serve openly on the frontline, flying missions in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. True Colours reveals the challenges of trailblazing transgender service in an environment historically hostile to LGBT personnel, and how she succeeded in shaping understanding, support and inclusion, inspiring others to follow.
<A HREF="https://shrewsburylgbthistory.org.uk/presentations-2017/heroic-architects-of-the-1967-act/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Peter Scott Presland & Andrew Lumsden </A>in conversation: Heroic Architects of the 1967 Act
As a result of being in London Gay Liberation Front, Andrew Lumsden was the first national journalist in the world to come out voluntarily (1971). He participated in the Gay News project (1972-1983), which gave heart to thousands of LGBT people in Britain and Ireland and which the Government accordingly tried to close down (1977). Peter has been working as a gay cabaret artiste, writer, journalist and activist since 1971.  He has run theatre companies, campaigned for disabled people, been a regular columnist for 'Capital Gay' and got up the noses of more people than you've had hot dinners.  
Plus a taste of Queer Playback Theatre
Playback Theatre is spontaneous improvised theatre - the audience tells their stories and the actors re-enact them. It's unexpected, exciting, moving, often hilarious. 
Wine and nibbles will occur!
Following last year's successful festival, we anticipate this launch night will be really popular and so we will run a waiting list. If you book tickets then realise you cannot come then please do return them/ let us know: salopianrainbows@gmail.com
The venue is fully accessible to wheelchair users.
Buy tickets for Saturday Night Evening of Entertainment: <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/saturday-evening-entertainment-back-in-time-2-tickets-29723028378" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">GET TICKETS</A>
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