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This Home Page details information on events organised by Derbyshire Rainbow Fringe Festival and on activities and events which are in keeping with the DRFF ethos. DRFF takes a collective community approach and we hope that you find that there is something for everyone on our site. Please let us know if there is an event that you think we should feature. For more detailed information on What We Do and Who We Are, please visit our ‘Welcome’, ‘About Us’ and pages related to our aims, objectives and projects.
Derbyshire Rainbow Fringe Festival Line Up So Far
Friday September 10th 7pm until late Festival Launch Party at the Crown Inn Pub Curzon Street, Derby. This is a Free Event. Everyone Welcome
Saturday September 18th Women With Guitars (including Ali Wright, Lucy Ward, Charlotte Carpenter) The QUAD Derby
Peter Tatchell Lecture and Q&A University of Derby, Oct 3rd 2010
Art Exhibition at the Guildhall September 27th to October 2nd, 2010
Family Fun events at the QUAD, Library and other venues
Other Events Details TBC…Please Keep Watching This Space
Workshops at the QUAD and other venues
Poetry Competition
Creative Writing Workshop: The Art of Writing with East Midland Authors
LGBT representation in Film
LGBT Stories From Around The World – Readings and Discussion
Gay Icons Workshop
Live Music, Dance Workshops and More
Scroll Down To The End Of The Page For Full Updates
Peter Tatchell Will Be At This Year’s Fringe Festival Speaking on “The Unfinished Battle For LGBT Human Rights”, October 3rd, at 6.30pm (Venue to be confirmed)
A message from Peter Tatchell
LGBT human rights campaigner
“I am proud to support Derby’s Rainbow Fringe Festival 2010. I’ll be there and I hope you will join me. Celebrate your sexuality and the rights we have won. But also remember that the battle for LGBT equality is not yet over.
2010 is the fortieth anniversary of the formation of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in Britain. With its revolutionary slogan, ‘Gay is Good,’ GLF turned the homophobia of centuries on its head and
motivated thousands of LGBT people to come out for the first time.
Defiant and proud, GLF ended the victim mentality and challenged the values, laws and institutions of heterosexist society. It initiated the idea of Gay Pride and coordinated the UK’s first Gay Pride march, which was held in London in July 1972.
Since the 1970s, the LGBT community has made great strides towards equality, but we have not yet won equal treatment.
There is still a ban on same-sex marriage. Civil partnerships are not equality. They are a form of sexual apartheid, with different laws for gay and straight people. I am against the ban on same-sex couples getting married and I am equally opposed to the way heterosexual couples are barred from having a civil partnership. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Gay and bisexual men are prohibited from donating blood, even if they always practice safe sex and have tested HIV-negative.
Successive Home Secretaries have given visas and work permits to reggae singers who incite the murder of gay people, despite such incitements being serious criminal offences.
The government’s many commendable LGBT law reforms are no excuse for its stonewalling on the abolition of these remaining aspects of homophobic discrimination.
“We won’t stop campaigning until we win full respect, acceptance, dignity and human rights”
www.petertatchell.net
Proud Recipients of Midland Zone Outstanding Contribution Award 2010
In photograph..
Back: Rosie Mychajlow Vice Chair Derby Pride
Left: Andy Lee : Secretary Derby Pride
Right: Shaun Peaty : Joint Vice Chair
Front: Andrew Manning: Chair Derby Pride
Derby Pride Committee launch the Jeffery Tillett Award
Committee members of Derby Pride are very proud and honoured to present the Annual Jeffery Tillett Award.
Committee members of Derby Pride are very proud and honoured to present the Annual Jeffery Tillett Award.
In line with Derby Pride’s Mission Statement and in memory of former Derby City Mayor, Jeffrey Tillett, the award will be presented to acknowledge achievement, work and dedication to the LGBT Community of Derbyshire.
The award is also a celebration of Jeffery’s life, (Jeffrey sadly passed away in 2008) and work for the LGBT and wider community in Derby and Derbyshire.
For more information download the PDF form below marked with a red x.
Derbyshire Rainbow Fringe Festival Organised Events For LGBT History Month, February
BACKGROUND
The first celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) History Month in the UK was organised in February 2005 by Schools Out (formerly the Gay Teachers’ Group, who advocates for LGBT equality in education (see www.schools-out.org.uk). “The event came in the wake of the abolition of Section 28 and is intended to raise awareness of, and combat prejudice against, an otherwise substantially invisible minority” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Month). Since 2005 the event has grown from strength to strength, witnessing major developments including the launch of LGBT history websites in England, Scotland and Wales and the archiving, protecting and celebration of LGBT contributions to history. History Month has also been a catalyst for the development of many localised history projects, such as, Our Story Scotland, the Nottinghamshire Rainbow Heritage Project and the embryonic DRFF organised Derbyshire Routes of the Rainbow Tree heritage project. February 2010 marks initial steps to archive, showcase and celebrate the contribution of LGBT people and organisations to the heritage of Derbyshire and beyond. The recognition and celebration of LGBT History Month challenges ignorance and prejudice which hopefully leads to a more inclusive society. We hope you come and celebrate with us.
Event Number 1: DRFF launches its poetry competition on February 1st 2010. Theme: ‘Love and Friendship’. 2 Prize Categories. This competition is open to all. Our Arts Main Page will be updated with full competition details very soon.
Event Number 2. Friday February 5th: Film Screening & Debate On Issues Affecting Older LGBT People. Derby Central Library, 6-8pm. Free Event;
Event Number 3. Saturday February 6th: Open House at Derbyshire Friend 11-4pm Join Us for Debate, Screening & Lunch. Free Event
Event Number 4. Tuesday February 9th: LGBT History Quiz, The Crown Inn, Curzon Street, 7-9.30pm. Prize £50. Max 4 per team. Also DF Sexual Health Team Outreach Night;
Event Number 5. Thursday February 11th: The Big Queerstion Time, The QUAD, 7-9pm .Get informed on Issues affecting the LGBT Community. Free Event;
Event Number 6. From Friday February 12th QUAD Screening Of ‘A Single Man’. This Is Not A Free Event.
Event Number 7. Saturday February 13th: Young Persons Event, The QUAD, 2-5pm. Lively Debate, Screening and Workshops. Refreshments. Free Event; Event Number 8. Sunday February 14th: LGBT St. Valentine’s Day Quiz n Karaoke Duke of York, Burton Road, 8-9pm. Prize £50. Max 4 per team. Also DF Sexual Health Team Outreach Night; Event Number 9. Friday February 19th: An Audience With Derbyshire Novelist Narvel Annable. Derby Central Library 6 to 8pm. Refreshments. Free Event.
Event Number 10 and 11. Saturday February 20th: Block Printing LGBT Symbols, The Crown Inn, Curzon Street 11 to 12.30.pm and, The Duke of York, Burton Road 2 to 3.30pm. Free Buffet; Event Number 12. Saturday February 27th: An Audience With Derbyshire Novelist Narvel Annable. Chesterfield Library 2 to 4pm. Refreshments. Free Event; Event Number 13. Sunday February 28th:‘ The documentary Homo Promo’ – Offers a crash course in LGBT film history 1956-76.The QUAD, 7-9pm. Free Event.
DRFF extends a very big thank you to Derbyshire Friend & Affiliated Groups; Age Concern, Derby and Derbyshire City &County Library Services & Equality and Diversity Units, Narvel Annable, Terry Durand, Ian Campbell, The Crown, Derby Youth Services, LKNG, The QUAD and UOD LGBT Society & All Other Contributors. Events Are Free Unless Otherwise Indicated.
January 27th, 2010 is Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Memorial Day – marks the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. On this day, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is challenging everyone across the UK to become part of a Legacy of Hope. HMD 2010 offers an opportunity to listen to the voices from the Holocaust and Nazi persecution, and to make the lessons of hope for a safer, inclusive society where the differences between us are respected a reality today and in the future.(source:http://www.hmd.org.uk/resources/theme-papers/hmd-2010-the-legacy-of-hope). To paraphrase Ghandi, be the change you wish to see in the world, say no to hatred, say yes to human rights for all, why not start by visiting http://www.hmd.org.uk and lighting the candle of hope.
DRFF welcomes in the New Year with some extraordinary news as we are the recipients of a very generous donation of the following works of art by contemporary female artist Taiche.
1.Abstract Lovers
2.Threesome Back to Front
3.Matisse’s Blue Nude In Brown
Thank you Taiche for donating your beautiful work. These works in acryllic, will be exhibited during the Festival September 24th to October 3rd 2010 and will then be auctioned off as part of the Festival proceedings in October 2010. If you are interested in bidding or offering what you think is a fair amount for any of these paintings please contact us with your offer.
Taiche has also been spreading the word about the Fringe and has been instrumental eliciting further donations to the Fringe by other artists (please see below). Thank you Taiche, Thank you so very much.
To view other works by this generous artist please visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/taiche/art or at www.zazzla.co.uk/taiche or email her at taiche40@hotmail.com
Taiche’s call out for donations on behalf of Derbyshire Rainbow Fringe Festival also led to further donations one from Yorkshire based artists. The first is Richard H from Yorkshire.
Richard H
Originally from the West Midlands, UK (near Birmingham), but now living in South Yorkshire. “I have a silly sense of humour, which sometimes appears in my pictures. I hope you enjoy the characters I create”.
Donated Works
1. Growing and Yearning
2. He’s Leaving
3. The Kiss
4. Together we can
Richard has also generously given us permission to use one of his prints “Because He is Gay” in our anti-homophobia campaign.
This picture is also available for sale through RedBubble.
You can see further examples and order from Richard’s work at http://www.redbubble.com/people/richepics. Thank you Richard for your generous gift. Thank you very much.
J Robin Whitley is the third artist to respond to Taiche’s call out on our behalf. J Robin lives is a multi-talented performance and visual artist:
Visual Arts: Photography, drawing, painting
Music: Guitar and Vocals
Literature: Poetry, Non-fiction, Song Writing,
Traditional Art/Craft: Storytelling
She lives and works in Western North Carolina, United States.
In describing her work she writes, “The intuitive comes easy to me in music, poetry, reflective writing and music composition. In mid-life I’m learning to see with a different eye, my real ones! As a lover of meditation I also am finding photography a great and new way to focus, center and quiet…In my art, music and stories I seek to convey the beauty I see, hear and feel in the live around us. We are surrounded by the spirit of nature, the soul of sound and the dance of vision. The goal of art is to move us; move us to look inward or reach outward or stop and be still. All we have is here and now and this life before us, over our heads, under our feet, residing in our center is good. My art is an attempt to share this with others while at the same time loving life again and again”. Source: http://www.redbubble.com/people/jrobinwhitley
Donated Work: Blues Guitar
Thank you J Robin thank you for reaching out from across The Pond and sharing in our cause. Thank you very much.
See more of Jrobin’s work please visit her website at http://www.jrobinwhitley.com/. Her work can also be viewed at http://www.redbubble.com/people/jrobinwhitley or email her at jrobinwhitley@gmail.com
To bid on any of these works please leave your bid amount along with your contact information on our Picture Bid Page – click on Projects, then The Arts and the Bid Page will come up. Good luck.!
61st International Human Rights Day, December 10th 2009!
Human Rights Day;Some Big Issues
Homophobic Hate Crime Is A Human Rights Issue
Please note that DRFF do not necessarily agree with the protrayal of the Uk Police Service as inherently Homophobic, but we do support the message that Homophobic Hate Crime is a Human Rights issue and the use of statistical evidence to highlight the issue of Homophobic Hate Crime in The UK
The Gay Holocaust
December 1, 2009 WORLD AIDS DAY IS 21!
It is hard to believe that 21 years on the war on HIV/AIDS rages on. In the Global North we have come some way towards addressing the stigma, exclusion and inevitable death sentence that went hand in hand with a diagnosis. Unfortunately, elsewhere in the world it is not quite the case, with whole societies being ravaged as much by HIV/AIDS as they are by the ignorance and inhumanity of their governments, international pharmaceutical companies and sadly at times their communities. Indeed, even in the West many continue to suffer as much from the impact of HIV/AIDS as they do from the economic, socio-political stigma (for instance, gay men in Britain are still barred from being blood donors) and access to equitable medical treatment. Many have lost that fight but it is in their name that we all must carry on. The need to change the current perception, treatment and care of people who are living with HIV/AIDS remains at the pinnacle of the world health agenda. As the Country engages in its annual flurry of vigils, memorials, fund and awareness raising activity, let us not forget that there are another 364 days in the year. Let us all through individual and collective action, not just today but whenever we can, do something to help make a difference!
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DECEMBER 1ST IS WORLD AIDS DAY, 21 AND GOING STRONG
For More Information Please Visit The World Aids Day Website at http://www.worldaidsday.org/
Aids in Africa A Human rights Issue
Derbys World Aids Day Event 2009
Tuesday 1st December
7.45pm – 8.45pm in The Box at QUAD
A free event, open to anyone to attend, to remember those who we have lost and to celebrate those who are living.
Featuring a live gospel choir and music from One Big Sky, plus ‘Reality’ an animation created by participants from QUAD’s Women on Wednesdays group. Unmissable entertainment!
Contact The QUAD At:
QUAD, Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby, DE1 3AS
Box Office: 01332 290 606
Admin: 01332 285 444
Email: info@derbyquad.co.uk
Derbyshire Friend Is Also Organising Outreach Events For World Aids Day 2009. Watch Press and/Contact DF For Further Information.
If You Require Help And Support In Dealing With Aids/HIV Related Issues Contact Derbyshire Friend Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Support Service At
The Pavilion LGBT Centre
2-3 Friary Street
Derby
DE1 1JF
Telephone 01332 207704
Email info@gayderbyshire.co.uk
And Or
Derbyshire Positive Support At PO Box 124
Derby
DE1 9NZ
Telephone: 01332 204020
Please Note That Other NHS Services Also Exist.
Same-sex hand holding Sshh! Saturday
Saturday 28th November 2009
At the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) lunch, Stephen Fry endorses ‘A Day In Hand’ for
the 3rd international Same-sex hand holding (Sshh!) Saturday, November 28th 2009.
“It’s the most touching thing that’s happened all year” – Stephen Fry
For more information on Same-Sex Hand Holding (SSHH) Go to the silent revolution. www.adayinhand.com
DRFF Consultation
DRFF is currently going through a period of consultation to find out what you the LGBT community want from the Festival. To have your say go to Updates download, save and complete the survey and send it back to us via email. All the details you need are contained within the document. Surveys can also be returned to Derbyshire Friend offices on Friary Street. Your opinion only counts if you take this opportunity to have your say.
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Assemble Whitehall Place, 6pm for a 6.30 start.
Women only march through central London to the Camden Centre, Kings Cross for mixed rally for men and women with stalls and speakers, followed by disco until late.
National women’s march against rape and all forms of male violence
For More Information And A Map Of The Route Visit http://www.reclaimthenight.org/
Transgender Day Of Remembrance, November 20th, 2009
The Transgender Day of Remembrance is set aside to remember those who have been killed due to Transphobia. The event was originally held in November to honour Rita Hester, whose murder in 1998 was a catalyst for creating the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a candleligt vigil in San Francisco in 1999. Since then, the event has grown to encompass memorials in dozens of cities across the world, including London, Birmingham Manchester and of course, Derby.
Source:Adapted From http://www.gender.org/remember/day/what.html
If you are Trans And Need Help And Support Contact Transcend at http://www.transcend.moonfruit.com/ Or Derbyshire Friend Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Support Service At
The Pavilion LGBT Centre
2-3 Friary Street
Derby
DE1 1JF
Telephone 01332 207704
Email info@gayderbyshire.co.uk
And Or
Contact Reflections, A Social Support Group On 07969448916 Or Email From Their Website At http://reflections.moonfruit.com/
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