OutStories Bristol present a day of fascinating talks featuring stories of LGBTQ+ people in the Bristol region over the last 150 years. There will also be information stalls for various local LGBTQ+ community groups.
Programme
10.30am Event opens
10.45am Welcome – Andrew Foyle, Outstories Bristol
11am-11.40am The Life of John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), a Bristol-born literary scholar who wrote pioneering texts on homosexuality – Alexander Taylor
11.50am-12.30pm Bristol Ballroom Community – a dance culture that particularly welcomes queer, trans and people of colour
12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch break
1.30pm-2.10pm Gay Bristol seafarer shapes UK LGBTQ+ history: Mick Belsen – Dr Jo Stanley
2.20pm-3pm Creating a Lesbian Archive for Bristol – The BLAST! Collective
3.10pm-3.50pm 30 years of Freedom Youth – Jack Shoulder
3.50-4pm Closing thanks
4.30pm Event closes.
Head to the Mshed website for more about the talks.
