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[[File:Gilliesmeadow.JPG|thumb|left|Gillies Meadow named after Sir [[Harold Gillies]]]] | [[File:Gilliesmeadow.JPG|thumb|left|Gillies Meadow named after Sir [[Harold Gillies]]]] | ||
The Freedom Youth (LGBT) Project provided support and advice for young people who are LGBT<ref> Facebook page for this group was last posted on in 2013 https://www.facebook.com/FreedomYouthBasingstoke/</ref>. No Limits in Southampton took over the Freedom Youth Project. | |||
Basingstoke is due to have its first [[Pride]] event in August 2024 <ref> https://basingstokepride.co.uk/ </ref>. | Basingstoke is due to have its first [[Pride]] event in August 2024 <ref> https://basingstokepride.co.uk/ </ref>. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 21:21, 19 April 2024
Basingstoke and Deane is a local authority district in Hampshire. The main town in the borough is Basingstoke.
In the 1940s Harold Gillies was performing plastic surgery at Rooksdown House, Basingstoke. Among his patients was Michael Dillon who underwent gender reassignment surgery at the unit [1].
The Freedom Youth (LGBT) Project provided support and advice for young people who are LGBT[2]. No Limits in Southampton took over the Freedom Youth Project.
Basingstoke is due to have its first Pride event in August 2024 [3].
References
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- ↑ The First Man-Made Man by Pagan Kennedy (Bloomsbury Publishing: 2006). In 2020 a housing development on the old Park Prewett Hospital site where Harold Gillies worked was named Gillies Meadow
- ↑ Facebook page for this group was last posted on in 2013 https://www.facebook.com/FreedomYouthBasingstoke/
- ↑ https://basingstokepride.co.uk/