{"id":18704,"date":"2024-04-26T18:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T18:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18704"},"modified":"2024-04-27T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:13:13","slug":"under-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/18704","title":{"rendered":"Under the Rainbow : Documents and Artefacts From Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An Exhibition at Broadway Cinema<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>25 July &#8211; 04 August 2024 \u2013 Free Event<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the face of aggressive marginalisation, LGBTQ+ people in Nottingham fought for themselves and stood shoulder to shoulder with others. In doing so, they created their own narratives and built their own support networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documents and artefacts produced in these struggles continue to be an inspiration. They show how people organised themselves and created their own defiant media and spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born of resistance, it is all the more striking that these items are such vivid and positive depictions of culture, life and love, of a community that not only survived, but thrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again supported by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/peopleshistreh.wordpress.com\/\">Peoples\u2019 Histreh<\/a>&nbsp;and very kindly hosted by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.org.uk\/\">Broadway Cinema<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk\/\">Sparrows&#8217; Nest<\/a>&nbsp;is excited to share items from their rich collections of donated LGBTQ+ materials, complemented by pictures by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/\">local photo journalist Alan Lodge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition accompanies the launch of the first volume of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carobarry.com\/\">CJ DeBarra\u2019s&nbsp;<\/a>major new work on local LGBTQ+ history&nbsp;<em>Queer Nottingham: 1960-1990<\/em>, published by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk\/\">Five Leaves<\/a>, based on years of extensive research and over a hundred oral history interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please feel free to widely share this article and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk\/collections\/undertherainbow_promo_leaflet_lq.pdf\">the promo leaflet<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Opening<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thu 25-Jul <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>7-9pm: Join us for our opening event in the Broadway Gallery (enter through Broadway\u2019s main entrance or via Heathcote Street). We promise to keep the speeches brief!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk\/index.php\/13-news-and-events\/events\/273-under-the-rainbow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk\/index.php\/13-news-and-events\/events\/273-under-the-rainbow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Exhibition at Broadway Cinema 25 July &#8211; 04 August 2024 \u2013 Free Event In the face of aggressive marginalisation, LGBTQ+ people in Nottingham fought for themselves and stood shoulder to shoulder with others. In doing so, they created their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/18704\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1761,934,115,593,1760,15,16,29],"class_list":["post-18704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-broadway-2","tag-exhibition","tag-gallery","tag-gay","tag-lgbtq","tag-nottingham","tag-photography","tag-tash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18712,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions\/18712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}