LGBT History Month 2012…book your place now, and vote in the annual awards

Equity Partnership will be celebrating History Month 2012 in style this year; we’ll be running our annual LGBT Awards Ceremony on 25th February, to celebrate and recognise the fantastic dedication and work done to support LGBT people and communities in Bradford. Take a look below for details of other events supporting History Month in Bradford …

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’Hooleyand  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.

Doors open at 6.00pm. Tickets are just £2.50. 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. To place your votes for this year’s awards click this link

A Trans Journey with Guardian Columnist Juliet Jacques, Tues 28th Feb, 6.30pm

Juliet Jacques will talk about how she saw trans people and culture addressed by the media during the last two decades, and how she discovered a wealth of academic and activist writing that remained unrepresented in the mainstream. Discussing how she combined traditional transsexual autobiographies with counter-cultural theory for the Guardian’s Transgender Journey, she will cover how her writing aimed to challenge ‘radical’ feminist and conservative conceptions about transsexual people and gender roles, and this helped to affect editorial policy at a newspaper with a complicated record on trans issues.
Juliet is the author of The Guardian’s Transgender Journey column, the first to document the gender reassignment process for a major mainstream newspaper, which was longlisted for this year’s Orwell Prize for blogs. As well as writing on trans issues for The New Statesman, TimeOut London and other publications, she also covers experimental film, European literature, music and sport. She has also been involved in activist work dealing with homophobia in football and transphobia in the media, speaking at EHRC workshops and Pride events about mainstream print and press portrayals of trans people.

It all takes place at the Equity Centre, doors open at 6.30pm. For more information,  to discuss any access needs that you have and to book a place emailrachel@equitypartnership.org.uk or telephone 01274 727759/79.

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