Basingstoke and Deane
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.
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 [3] [4] .
References
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ 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)
