Leicester
LGBT history
Joe Orton was born in Leicester in 1933.
Morley Clarke (1916-2010) was a tailor who lived and worked in Leicester. In 2021 Jo Somerset gave a presentation on the life of Morley and his life long partner Roland Spence as part of the Schools Out Outing The Past Festival [1]. Morley and Roland moved to Narborough after Morley's mother died in 1971.
Ray Gosling studied at Leicester University.
There was a Leicester GLF and a Leicester CHE Group (founded 1971).
In 1987 Leicester was one of the cities chosen for a homosexual lifestyle study. This survey was designed to see how AIDS might be spread. The survey was criticised by Doctor John Bottril, Chairman of the Leicester Gay Group. [2]
In 1988 Sandra Lucille of the Leicester Lesbian Information Service was interviewed on Central Television about the rights of lesbians and clause 28.[3]
Leicester Wildecats FC is a gay football team.
Leicester Pride is held at the beginning of September.
Bossa is a small gay café bar on Granby Street.
Leicester LGBT Centre is a voluntary organisation established to support LGBT people.[4]
There is an LGBT Oral History Project for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6fj0enXajM accessed 18 September 2021
- ↑ A report on Central Television https://www.macearchive.org/films/central-news-east-05021987-sex-survey
- ↑ https://www.macearchive.org/films/central-news-east-03021988-clause-28
- ↑ http://www.leicesterlgbtcentre.org/
