How does creativity help form friendships, develop confidence and support communication for people living with dementia? At Equal Arts we see the impact the imagination and living in the moment can bring to people. With Creativity Matters we showcase the different stories and voices from across our projects with older people, artists, schools and those living in care. Episode 1 is a whistle-stop tour of Tyneside queer activism. A timeline of coming out stories, the burgeoning gay scene and women's scene and the setting up of services by and for the community.
In this third and final episode we hear from the pioneers who set up the first Pride marches and festivals in Newcastle. In the early 1970s, members of the main organisations campaigning for LGBTQ civil rights at the time; the more radical and anarchist Gay Liberation Front and the more middle class, making inroads into the establishment Campaign for Homosexual Equality, joined forces to create the first Pride marches in the city. Fifty activists marched through the city centre at a ti...
3 Feb 2022
D.I.Y. Queers in Space - creating the places to come together and be our fabulous selves.
In this second episode from the year-long Equal Arts project, we reflect on the importance of carving out queer spaces, especially during the hostile political and generally homophobic climate of the 80s and 90s. We hear from some of the pioneers who worked hard to carve out queer spaces in the cultural landscape of Newcastle, giving the LGBTQ communities safe places in which to just be and express themselves, dance, have fun, organise, find their tribe and a space in which queer ...
13 Aug 2021
A whistle-stop tour of Tyneside queer activism
In this first episode from the year-long Equal Arts project, hear from those involved in LGBTQIA+ activism in the North East during the 70s through to the early 90s. Episode 1 is a timeline of coming out stories, the burgeoning gay and women's scene and the creation of services by and for the community. Handing on our History was supported by Heritage Lottery funding.
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