Plymouth Pride Forum is an independent organisation put in place to support Plymouths LGBT community through:

Hawkins Meeting House

Buckwell Street Plymouth

MONDAY 22 ND FEBRUARY 8PM HAWKINS MEETING HOUSE

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voicing the needs of the LGBT community and identifying gaps in service provision promoting awareness and understanding of LGBT needs with city service providers to ensure equality of access to city services working in partnership with agencies such as Devon and Cornwall Police to combat lack of understanding and increase reporting of homophobic and transphobic incidents empowering LGBT individuals to become involved in community life and to receive consultation around the issues that affect their lives promoting understanding and respect for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in the community.

Screening Stonewall The Movie

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LGBT HISTORY MONTH

LGBT History Month is a monthlong annual observance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender culture, plus the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.

STONEWALL THE MOVIE

STONEWALL THE RIOTS

Here in the United Kingdom, it is observed during February, to coincide with a major celebration of the 2005 abolition of Section 28, which had the effect of prohibiting schools from discussing LGBT issues or counselling gay youth.
In the United States it is observed during October, to include National Coming Out Day October 11.
LGBT History Month celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community with a commitment to celebrate its diversity and that of the society as a whole. We encourage everyone to see diversity and cultural pluralism as the positive forces that they are and endeavour to reflect this in all we do. For further information visit:

Stonewall By Nigel Finch 1996

A group of homosexual people try to

Five days after the death of Judy Garland, the New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn a Gay bar popular with Drag Queens many of whom impersonated her and adopted her lifestyle. The grieving crowd of gays, lesbians, bisexual, and trans people turned against the police. The late Miss Sylvia Rivera, a transgender rights activist and founding member of both the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, is credited by many as the first to actually strike back at the police and, in doing so, sparked the rebellion. The first gay rights protest took place on the anniversary of the riots in NYC. London was soon to follow, Outrage organised the UK's first Gay Rights Demonstration on the 27th November 1970 at Highbury Fields.
Poster, flyers and leaflet designed by Pride in Plymouth Proud to work with Plymouth Pride Forum and Hawkins on this event.

live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Who could have guessed that a bunch of men in dresses would breath life into the movement to win equal rights for gay men and lesbians? Certainly not the police who raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular "drag" bar in Greenwich Village. After a long history of police raids, extortion, and brutality, a gaggle of drag queens at the Stonewall decide they have had enough and begin to riot when the police try to load them into a paddy wagon. Told by "La Miranda" (Hector), a regular customer at the Stonewall Inn, the film although based on fact uses a certain amount of artistic licence and fictional characters to portray the build up to the Stonewall Riots. This is Stonewall as told by La Miranda

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