PRIDE COMES TO FR WORKSOP EE

QB

Nottinghamshire’s Bulletin

June/July 2016 Number 90

In this issue

Suspicious packages Baby dinosaurs Colin the husky The Transvestite Machine Marmosets Sverige Brev The Downtown Club A book festival Pride comes to Worksop on Sun- had a fantastic time. “While I’m Cartels of poufferie day July 10th. It’s in the Masonic there, I can be me. I truly feel safe, Different shoes Hall from noon until 6pm + an after and I’d love to bring that kind of Naughty coffee party at the Corner House. Crystal atmosphere to Worksop for our Livid letters Lucas is behind the event. She LGBT residents.” says “I believe that our town has Anyone interested in being in- come a long way in terms of cele- volved should email her at Work- brating diversity and people from [email protected] or leave all different backgrounds, and I’m And other stuff her a message on her Facebook surprised Pride hasn’t come here at www.facebook.com/Worksop- yet. I’d like to be the person to Pride. make that happen.”

“I have been to Pride festivals up Any group or organisation which and down the country, such as would like a stall at the event can , and I’ve always get one for £50.

THE BEGGING BOWL

On page 6, under “Service improvements”, you can read about the iCarol system which Switchboard has adopted. In the last QB If you have any information, news, there was mention about the rebranding which gossip or libel or wish to comment on anything in QB, please contact Switchboard will undertake in July. The re- branding is a direct response to the large scale QB LGBT community survey which took place and Switchboard last year. iCarol adds an extra £2300/year to 7 Mansfield Road Switchboard’s expenses and the rebrand will Nottingham NG1 3FB cost at least a further £1000. or e-mail [email protected] Any donations you can provide will be appreci- The deadline for the next edition ated. You can do this will be June 24th using Mydonate or the FRONGS scheme, SwitchboardSwitchboard is registered is registered charity both of which can be charityno. number 1114273 1114273 seen on the website. IN DIFFERENT SHOES RAINBOW FAMILIES GROUP

Victoria Villasenor and Global Words have previous- The long-established Nottingham Rainbow Fami- ly worked with local people to produce two books. lies group recently closed, but Clare hopes to revive One was “Late Outbursts”, a book of memoirs by it. Here are the details. older LGBTQ people and “Speaking Out”, an equiv- For all LGBTQI parents/carers attending with chil- alent book by LGBTQ young people. dren. Wider family members welcome.

On April 16th a new book was launched to a full Different families, same love! It would be great to house at Waterstones - “In Different Shoes: Sto- start a group for rainbow families to provide mutual ries from the Trans Community”. The book con- support, create friendships and for the kids to have sists of memoirs by Trans young people, mainly fun.. Farm address: Stonebridge Road, St Anns, Not- from the Nottingham group Trans4me. tingham, NG3 2FR. There are farm animals, gardens and a playground. The farm has a website with more information. We’ll discuss future dates and venues.

Please note: This is an informal group and parents/ carers are responsible for supervising their own chil- dren and for ascertaining that the venue meets their children’s needs eg. facilities, terrain. You are wel- come to take photographs/videos of your own child but of no one else without their parent/carers permis- sion. First meeting: Sunday 22nd May 2016, 10.30am, Stonebridge City Farm Cafe. OLDER LGBT PEOPLE

Age Friendly Nottingham produces an occasional e-mailed newsletter and it accepts short articles from a variety of organisations. Switchboard has asked for the following to be included in the next newsletter.

What does Nottingham provide for older LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual and ) people? Not a lot!* Let us know what new services/support you would like. To find out what there is or just to have a friendly chat or to receive our bimonthly newsletter by e-mail, contact Notts Lesbian and Gay Switchboard. As an organisation Switchboard is merely middle-aged (40 years old!) but we do have all the useful information.

Phone 0115 9348485 or use www.nottslgs.org.uk The foreword to the book was written by Katie Cornhill (below left, with Victoria, below right) who *The bit in bold italics was cut from the article. also started the afternoon with an inspirational speech about her own experiences as a trans lesbi- COFFEE GRINDR an. Most of the young contributors were present to read extracts from their own memoirs.

The book costs £5 (all profits to the Trans4me Recently Finland celebrated Tom of Finland with a group) and is available in Nottingham Waterstones, series of postage stamps. Now the Finnish coffee from Amazon or directly from Global Words via company Robert Paulig Roastery is selling Tom of www.globalwords.co.uk Finland coffee - you can get them as whole beans or ready ground. STAMPING OUT THE NOTTINGHAM MAP A few months ago QB mentioned the Tom of Finland postage stamps which were being printed in Finland. In the last QB there were the United Nations LGBT There’s a link to the map on the homepage of stamps. Now it’s Sweden’s turn. They are printing Nottinghamshire’s Rainbow Heritage’s website. their own rainbow stamps. Each of the 70+ red spots on the map links to a place with some LGBT connection. Here are two of those places.

THE DOWNTOWN CLUB We’ve had info about a new gay night for Notting- ham.

“Welcome to the Midlands brand new LGBT friendly Party club night for people of all persuasions being held every 1st Saturday of the month 10pm - 6am One of the gayest kings around was Edward II launching on Saturday 7th May 2016. We are a 600 (1284-1327). He stayed at various residences capacity Nightclub with 4 rooms of adventure in Not- across the county many times. He even made tingham city centre, close to the Train Station and his boyfriend Piers Gaveston the Constable of Broad Marsh bus station.” Nottingham Castle

“One of the 4 rooms is the CANDYLAND ROOM hosted by Mr Gary Love Cock 10-6am, DJ's Peter Martine, Micky Lloyd and Little Miss Natalie. A large commercial dance floor playing everything from pop, rnb, commercial dance music moving into Uplifting vocal house music throughout the night using some of the best local Midland’s DJ talent.”

The address is 2-4 Wilford Street. For more details go to www.downtown64.co.uk

The picture shows the entrance to the Britannia Hotel on St. James Street. In 1977 the Britannia was the Albany Hotel and was used for the An- nual Conference of the Campaign for Homosex- ual Equality - CHE.

The conference included a presentation by a Dutch scientist on paedophilia. talking

The TRUE VISION website explains clearly what a about paedophilia ... shock, horror. The end of is and that includes internet hate crime. the world had arrived and there were apoplectic It gives advice and guidance about reporting hate articles in the daily press - even the Guardian - crimes, including reporting hate crimes online, if and livid letters in the letters page, including you do not want to report directly to the police. Go some from Catholic priests. to http://www.report-it.org.uk

BOLD STROKES BOOK FESTIVAL QB’S BITS

The 7th Annual Bold  Military bomb experts were called to Hasland Strokes Book Festival, post office in Chesterfield to carry out a con- UK is to showcase the trolled explosion over a package which started amazing talent of the buzzing. On further inspection, the package LGBTQ Bold Strokes was found to contain a vibrator which had self Authors in the UK, as started. well as those occasional  Bitopia has now moved from Broadway Cine- others who join us from ma back to the Lord Roberts. other areas. It's a free,  Has Lookout folded? Please let us know if wonderful weekend of you have any info? fun, frolic and lots and lots of books and writ-  The rebrand of Nottingham Switchboard be- ing. gins in July. The name change was put out for public consultation. There is no truth in the 4th Floor Sillitoe Room, Waterstones, Nottingham. rumour that the runner up name was Switchy Sat June 4th and Sunday June 5th. McSwitchface For more information go to:  The last QB had a front page which praised https://boldstrokesauthorfestuk.wordpress.com/ Notts organisations which made ’s top 100. It’s now time to grovel. We forgot West Notts College, which was 93rd. A SPECIAL STATUS PUBPUB  We have had some interesting, but vague, information about Nottingham’s 1950s Com- munist Party music nights - apparently they were the only events at that time where men could dance with men and women could dance with women. Anyone who can tell us the venue will be rewarded with a free sub- scription to QB.  At the time of writing, financial support for the very successful WOW LGBT Youth Group may run out by June. £12,000/year keeps this vital group going.  We’ve heard that there are moves to set up a Pride Music Festival in August in Newark. The New Foresters has been awarded special sta-  Mary Lou Bruner, candidate for the Texas tus by voluntary organisation the Campaign for Real Board of Education, says baby dinosaurs were Ale, which fights for local pubs. on board Noah’s Ark and that President The bar, which opened in the late 1950s, has been Obama worked as a gay prostitute. named as an "asset of community value", which al-  The Anchor Inn (now the Pontefino Italian lows a greater level of protection if an owner wanted Restaurant) was an attempt in 2001 to start a to change the use of the premises or demolish the gay disco beyond the City boundary. The or- building. ganiser said "There's not much to do in villag-

Delighted landlady Debbie Law said: "I have been es since all the sheep have gone". here as a landlady for 15 years and I'd like to be  Though Summer may be approaching, QB’s here for another 15. This gives the pub security and correspondent in the Arctic Circle has sent this we're dead chuffed.” photo from Kirkenes, North Norway - the husky’s name is Colin. THE BIG BI FUN DAY

The Big Bi Fun Day is now in its 7th year! All the event info can be found here: http:// bigbifunday.topbit.co.uk/

It’s on May 14th at The Friends Meeting House, Queens Road, Leicester, from 1-5pm.Many people move to the park to chill out afterwards. All LGBT+ people, allies, and friends and partners are welcome, and the event is child friendly. People bring food and games and chill out. II's always a lovely afternoon.

THE TRANSVESTITE MACHINE For Council housing More than fifteen years ago, while he was dressing in Nottingham and up in sequined costumes, feathered headdresses, a range of job and high heels, going from queer to queer, wig to opportunities visit wig, salon to salon, Giuseppe Campuzano began to wonder about the lost ancestors of his joyful trans- www.nottinghamcityhomes.org.uk vestite body …. and it would lead him to gather a col- lection of queer images and create the incredible ar- or call 0845 330 3131. chive, warehouse, and arsenal of disobedient bodies that he calls the Transvestite Museum of Peru. Homeless or losing your home? Contact Nottingham City Council Housing Aid on 0115 87 63300.

SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS

Last Autumn Switchboard started a trial with a new system called iCarol. It combines a phone call/e- mail log, a database and a texting/instant messaging service. It also generates instant statistics to demon- strate the range of services provided.

The entire system is internet based and this offers opportunities which were previously unavailable:

 It can be used at Pride and other external Miguel Lopez talks about the Transvestite Machine events if visitors to a Switchboard stall ask for Tuesday June 14th, 6.30-8.30pm at Nottingham Con- specific information. temporary.  It can be used over holiday periods when the building where Switchboard is based has been closed, even though volunteers would have been happy to work over these times.

PERSONAL TRAINING & BOOT CAMP

Phone Rob on 07735 512 513 or E-mail via www.funfitnottingham.com HOMINTERN

On April 14th at Five Leaves Bookshop, Professor Greg Woods launched his new book “Homintern” - How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World. It’s a hardback at £25 from Yale University Press.

HELPING WITH RESEARCH Drawing a parallel with the Comintern (the Com- I am currently completing my thesis for the Forensic munist International set up by Lenin), people like Cyr- Psychology MSc at the University of Lincoln and am il Connolly, W. H. Auden, Maurice Bowra and others looking for participants to take part in my study, jokingly gave the name “Homintern” to the informal which is about assessing the reliability and validity network of friendships that Cold War conspiracy the- of, and the ability to fake, both the Explicit and Im- orists would come to think of as the “International ho- plicit Sexual Interests Profile and the Implicit Rela- mosexual conspiracy”. The actor Sir Donald Wolfit tional Assessment Procedure. complained that “the theatre is controlled by an inter- This study will involve self-declaring your sexual ori- national cartel of poufferie!” entation through the completion of an established measure of . If this is not some- thing you feel comfortable with please do not sign up.

I am intending to actively recruit and gay males and straight males and . However, unfortunately due to the nature of my research bi- sexual individuals will not be eligible to take part. Therefore, if you are of bisexual orientation please do not sign up for this study. If you would like more information about this please email me, and I will be happy to explain the reasons why.

This study will involve completing four computer tasks and two questionnaires, and will take approxi- The book examines the lesbian and gay influences in mately 40-60 minutes to complete. You will be paid places such as Paris, Berlin, Harlem and Hollywood. £5 in cash for your participation. I would be really It also focusses on influential individuals such as grateful for any possible participants. If you are will- Serge Diaghilev (and the Russian Ballet), Tamara de ing to participate or have any questions about the Lempicka, Radclyffe Hall, Rudolf Nureyev, Magnus study please email me (Aislinn Herlihy) at Hirschfeld and events including the [email protected]. case.

Lesbian & Gay Switchboard SOME LOCAL LISTINGS

Coming out and going out. Staying in. Outburst! Group for LGBT young people aged 11-19 Feeling down. Meeting up. Meets Wednesdays at NGY (29-33 Castle gate) Breaking up.. Safer sex and Phone Base 51 (at NGY) on 9525040 for details everything in between. Trans4me Young trans people’s group. Meets Wednesdays 5-7pm at the Contact us Health Shop, 12, Broad Street, Tel. 07958 194768

0115 934 8485 WOW LGBT Youth Group. Wed. 6.30 - 8.30pm Centre Place,

Worksop. Tel: 01909 479191 email: [email protected] or text 07481 344040 Details of the following local groups can be obtained from Switchboard: Monday to Friday 7 pm to 9.15 pm

7 Mansfield Road, Notts Hyking Dykes; Women’s Badminton; Badminton Social; Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement; Sanctuary (LGBT BME group); Chameleons Nottingham, NG1 3FB. (trans); Nottingham Invasion (trans); Free to Be (Christian group) Not- [email protected] tingham & Trent Uni LGBT Societies; Peak Rufties women’s walking www.nottslgs.org.uk group; Man Up (bears, leather group); Loved by God (Christian group);

Follow us on Facebook at Women’s Midweek book group; Lesbian Café evening; SYNT (Women’s www.facebook.com/NLGSUK social group); Gay History Tours; Nottingham Bi Women’s Group; Age UK over 55 lesbian group; LiNk-Notts (lesbian e-mail info); QT Notts (info & Twitter at https://twitter.com/nottslgs sharing by e-mail); QT Walks; Eat Out Social; Nottingham Lions football ******************************************** team; Nottingham Women’s Craftspeople; Trans Hub (support for Notts Nottinghamshire’s Rainbow Heritage Trans community); Lirain (Lesbians into real ale); Nottingham Invasion - trans night out: Sherwood Ladies 5-a-side football; Tagadere (HIV+ sup- c/o NVAC, 7 Mansfield Road, port): Nottingham BiTopia & BiTalkia (Bi social groups); Emerge (Police, Nottingham NG1 3FB. fire, ambulance social group); Gay Outdoor Club; Dinner Ladies 0115 9349529 (women’s eat out group); LGBT Alcohol Support group; Kairos (Lesbian [email protected] Immigration Support Group); QTIPOC (for QTI people of colour).

www.nottsrainbowheritage.org.uk Download a directory of groups & services from the Local Facilities page

https://twitter.com/rainbowheritage of Switchboard’s website

DIARY MMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Derren Brown: “he’s a manipulator of magic and mind control, a miracle man of our modern times” - says the blurb - and probably a mesmerising marvel masterminding a multitude of mysterious manoeu- vres - maybe with marmosets

June 27th to July 2nd at the Theatre Royal

CCG FOCUS GROUP Nottingham Clinical Commissioning Group will run a focus group on May 9th (7-9pm) for those who iden- tify as LGB. This will look at their development of the new strategy to ensure the priorities agreed are appropriate and reflective of the health needs in Nottingham City.

They want 15 to 25 people. So far 19 people have asked to attend. If you want to attend, e-mail Switchboard - quickly!