OTP 2022 Hub Programme - Higgins Bedford
Saturday 26th February 2022 – Virtual Festival
The Higgins Bedford has been a hub venue for the OUTing the Past Festival for the last five years and is excited to take part on Saturday 26th February 2022 as a virtual festival hub for LGBTQ+ History Month.
This will be our second year hosting a Virtual OUTing the Past Festival to share a wide range of presentations from the LGBTQ+ community, encouraging inclusivity and awareness about LGBTQ+ history, whilst offering the opportunity for wider accessibility for the community to join in from home.
With a range of dynamic speakers and presentations, our OUTing the Past Festival aims to share the hidden histories and stories of the LGBTQ+ community, celebrate its diversity, and raise awareness of the challenges that the community have encountered and continue to face today.
In ‘Britain and the Pink Triangle’, Rainer Schulze shares the hidden and forgotten history of the persecution of gay men in Nazi Germany, as well as exploring its impact on the Gay Liberation Movement in 1970s Britain and the struggles which have continued to cast a long shadow on the LGBTQ+ community today.
Seni Seneviratne presents the untold story of male friendship and love across race, class and time in ‘Unknown Soldier: Queering the 1939-45 Desert War’, and shares a queer perspective on life for British soldiers during the 1943-5 desert war in North Africa through photography and poetry.
Hannah Tiernan uncovers the hidden history of LGBTQ+ representation in the theatre in her presentation ‘Foul, Filthy, Stinkin' Muck': The LGBTQ+ Theatre of Project Arts Centre’. From its origins as a three-week festival to becoming Dublin's leading arts centre, this presentation explores a number of theatrical productions that have contributed to LGBTQ+ activism over the past 55 years.
Many stories of Trans people have been undocumented, hidden and ignored, but in ‘A Scott called Jacqui - An Autobiographical Monogram’, Jaqui Gavin shares an autobiographical account of her life and experience as a trans activist and civil servant who has been a driving force to improve transgender issues across Whitehall and the wider workplace from 1967 to the present day.
Virtual visitors to the OUTing the Past Festival are encouraged to ask questions as there will be an informal Q&A with the speakers after each presentation.
Please visit The Higgins Bedford website and social media channels to stay up to date with our programme for OUTing the Past 2022.
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