OTP 2020 Hub Programmes - Stockport Libraries, Stockport

Stockport Libraries are delighted to welcome the OUTing the Past festival to Stockport Central Library, SK1 3RS to open a month-long series of events.

This is the 3rd year that Stockport Libraries have provided a wide range of accessible and diverse LGBT+ themed events during the whole of February to celebrate & support LGBT+ Month.

We are Proud to be working in partnership with our LGBT+ partners throughout Stockport and beyond.

Programme - Saturday 1st February 2020

Timings approximate, subject to change on the day

12 Noon - Intro, housekeeping & refreshments

12.15pm - Lois Stone - A History of Trans Objects

Currently finishing their PhD at the University Of Manchester

The past several years has seen a dramatic rise in the amount of trans representation in museums. This talk will present examples of objects relating to trans history from all over the world that have been displayed in museums around the UK in the past several years. 

12.45pm - Sacha Coward - Space Invaders

Videogames are an art form, one that is only slowly gathering the same kind of credibility as other mediums such as film, theatre, fine art and music. The whole world is playing videogames more than ever before, they truly are becoming ubiquitous. And yet, we are only starting to pass the same critical eye over them as we have other art forms, questioning who they are for and how they tell people's stories.
I am an escape room designer, a videogame fanatic and a queer historian. I have recently developed a set of videogame tours at the British Museum and I want to share some of the history behind queer themes and representations in videogames.

1.15pm - Refreshments

1.30pm - Rosie Adamson Clark - Film ‘Nan to the Rescue’ [ 14 - 15 minutes]

'It's our human right to love and be loved with equal freedom.'

A Lesbian teenagers’ coming out story, in the 1980's, an age when LGB [and T] relationships were not accepted easily, or fully supported...  However, Steph is loved and fully supported by the unlikely ally of Nan.

2pm - Rachel Larman - Telling stories: oral history highlights from the West Yorkshire Queer Stories collection

The value of collecting regional LGBTIQ+ histories; The importance of giving people a voice but also encouraging them to listen to others to break down barriers within LGBTIQ+ communities; The need to understand intersectional identities and the reasons that some people cannot be ‘out’

2.30pm - Refreshments

2.45pm - Closing thoughts of the day