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[[File:Basingstoke and Deane UK locator map.svg|thumb|Basingstoke and Deane shown within Hampshire]]'''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 <ref> 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 </ref>.

[[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.

Get Real is a 1998 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Simon Shore, based on the play What's Wrong with Angry? by screenwriter Patrick Wilde. The plot centres the coming of age of a gay teen while growing up in rural Britain during the Cool Britannia era of the late 1990s. The film was shot and set in and around Basingstoke. 

Basingstoke is due to have its first [[Pride]] event in August 2024 <ref> https://basingstokepride.co.uk/ </ref> <ref> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-68763603 Basingstoke announces first LGBTQ+ Pride parade
Published 9 April 2024 BBC (Accessed 4 June 2024) </ref> .

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[[Category:Hampshire]]
[[Category:Non-unitary districts]]
[[Category:English towns]]