LGBT History Month - Events in Bradford (February 2012)
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Friday 3rd February. Men only event at the Equity Centre, 7-11pm. This event, hosted by Thursgay looks like being a really stimulating and interesting evening. With two top authors and pioneers in their fields - one of the North's foremost poet & writer James Nash (www.jamesnash.co.uk) and Shout! founder/editor and 'Dr Who' author, Mark Michalowski (www.markmichalowski.co.uk). For more information or to book a place email rachel@equitypartnership.org.uk or telephone her on 01274 727759/79.
Thursday 16th February. Bradford LGB & T Network Organised as part of LGBT History Month; starting with free curry buffet at 6pm, Alison Oram, Professor in Social and Cultural History at the Leeds Metropolitan University will be talking to us about West Yorkshire post-war LGBT history. For more information or to book a place email rachel@equitypartnership.org.uk or telephone her on 01274 727759/79.
Saturday 18th February in the Equity Centre. Women Only Event. Working together the Lesbian Identity Project and the Equity Partnership, would like to invitee you to 'A Talk with Sarah Ponsonby'. A unique opportunity to 'meet' one of the remarkable 18th Century Ladies of Llangollen from Wales. In 1778 two courageous women gave 'Romantic Friendship' a new meaning when they eloped from their homes in Ireland and eventually settled in North Wales, where they remained together for almost 50 years. They were Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler and they became known and admired as the Ladies of Llangollen. Sarah will bring along her box of treasured keepsakes for everyone to see. A delightful event with Clare Wall who is regularly involved in costume presentations about the Ladies of Llangollen at Plas Newydd Museum and is author of an article about Sarah and Eleanor published by Herstoria in 2010.
Doors open at 7pm. For more information and to book a place email rachel@equitypartnership.org.uk or telephone 01274 727759/79.
Saturday 25th Equity Partnership LGB & T Awards. A glitzy 'bubbly' event in the French Ballroom at the Midland Hotel, Bradford, for the presentation of the fourth Equity Partnership LGB & T Awards 2012. Our celebrity hosts will be singer-songwriter and pianist Belinda O'Hooley and Yorkshire-born author Paul Burston - 'Shameless', 'Star People', 'Lovers & Losers' and 'The Gay Divorcee'. On hand to entertain you all will be Stand-up comic, presenter, actor, & writer Shelley Cooper and singer-songwriter Jess Gardham.
This will be a ticket-only event It's not too early to reserve your ticket now; email rachel@equitypartnership.org.uk or call her on 01274 727759/79. This year there will be five awards; one of which will be a regional award. A BSL signer will be available for the duration of the event.