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 Manchester Pride kick starts its 18th birthday celebrations this weekend with a whole host of events taking place across the city.
My First Pride, an exhibition that documents over 18 years of ‘first timers’ at Pride is being held at Urbis; Military Pride, a display of how war has affected LGBT lives, held at Imperial War Museum North; and The Lost Dresses of Travilla - an exhibition of dresses by William Travilla, held at the Palace Hotel. Festival goers can also explore over 200 years of lesbian and gay history with the Out in the Past Heritage Trail (22nd and 24th August) starting at Manchester’s Tourist Information Centre.
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 Celebrations begin for Manchester Pride's 18th birthday with a spectacular balloon release in Albert Square this Friday (15th August) at 6pm.
Eighteen 18-year-olds will release 999 balloons outside Manchester Town Hall. Each balloon will have a tag on it and the first five people who find a deflated balloon when it comes back down to earth and returns it to the Pride office will win a prize.
Jackie Crozier, festival manager of Manchester Pride, said: "I cannot think of a better way to mark the beginning of the 18th birthday. The visual impact a balloon release creates is spectacular and I cannot wait to see the excitement in the air- literally!"
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 Disabled LGBT and want to have your 15 minutes of fame? This is your chance to be part of the making of a film in Manchester about disabled people accessing the village.
As part of their our ongoing work with Manchester City Council, Full Circle Arts are looking to interview people for a short docufilm being made to promote issues around being LGBT/disabled and accessing Manchester's gay village. The premise of the film is to hear/learn about people's experiences of the village, and being LGBT and disabled. Whatever you think, whatever you feel this will be a totally free and uncensored forum for you to air your stories.
You can be filmed at your convenience, at a location in or around the village and the filming must be completed by September 2008. Expenses will be covered. The film will be shown towards the end of 2008 and you will also be invited to the launch event. If you feel you may be interested in getting involved in this project please get in contact via phone, text or email.
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 Coronation Street producers are to introduce the soap's first ever lesbian character.
Bosses had originally intended barmaid Violet Wilson – played by Jenny Platt before she left the Manchester-based soap earlier this year – to be gay when she joined in 2004. However, her romances with on and off screen love Jamie Baldwin (Rupert Hill) and Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas) proved popular with viewers.
A Weatherfield source told the News Of The World: "Executives want to create a soap which is representative of society in 2008 and they are acutely aware they need more gay characters.
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Manchester Pride will launch its first ever chamber music series on the 18 August in Studio 7 at the BBC on Oxford Road. The series of lunchtime concerts will explore the role of music in the struggles for equality around the world. Internationally renowned pianist Stephen Coombs and BBC Radio 3 producer Les Pratt have devised five concerts reflecting music of protest, alongside pieces written by gay and lesbian composers. Performers for the series include the fantastic and well-known tenor John Mark Ainsley, local-based guitarist Ed Billingham, the Symposia string quartet and a handful of young artists from the Royal Northern College of Music, as well as Stephen Coombs himself.
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 A chance to meet the manchester based rugby union team. The Spartans team members have only one thing in common - a love of rugby. The club are holding a Meet and Greet event on 27th July 2008 at Queer, Canal Street, Manchester at 3pm.
The event is designed for new players, prospective players and anyone else besides to come and meet the players in Manchester's gay village.
Matt Ince, who plays as Scrum half at the club encourages anyone to join up with the club especially at this time of year: "As it's the start of the season, this is the best time to join as there are always lots of new members. The club caters for all levels of ability and there is a lot of support whatever your experience levels you are at."
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 A row has erupted over plans to build a hotel in one of Manchester's liveliest neighbourhoods.
Bar owner Mark Cain wants to build a 20-bedroom hotel above his Velvet nightspot and restaurant in the Gay Village. But some neighbouring bar owners have gathered a 3,000-name petition against it - they fear it could threaten their late licences, with hotel guests objecting to noise from their `after party' club nights.
Petition organiser, former Take That manager Nigel Martin-Smith, who runs Queer café bar, said opponents did not want to face calls to close down their party nights.
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 "To Be Straight With You" is a work about tolerance and intolerance, culture, religion and homosexuality, says Lloyd Newsom, the award-winning artistic director of the physical theatre company DV8.
"It's a verbatim theatre work based on 85 interviews and a series of vox-pops conducted with people living in the UK. The interviewees include members of the clergy, asylum seekers, human rights organisations and people opposed to homosexuality due to their religious beliefs. All the text used in the show is taken directly from the interviews.
"Many of the interviewees," he continues, "particularly from ethnic minority groups with strong religious ties, requested that their identities remain hidden, fearful of the consequences should their communities discover their sexuality.
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 Homophobic hate crime is to be discussed at a conference in Manchester tomorrow.
The conference has been organised by Greater Manchester Police's Lesbian and Gay Staff Affiliation (Lagsa). Speakers include Ruth Hunt, head of policy and research at Stonewall and Dr Kate Browne, an expert in social change and gay communities at Brighton University. Senior police officers will also attend.
Lagsa chair Darrelle Lynch said: "Hate crime is a really important issue for people in Manchester's gay communities and it is vital that we as a force respond to it in the right way and treat it seriously.
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Police in Manchester have confirmed that a 40-year-old man has been charged with the murder of David Brown in September 2007. Brown was found dead after he visited bars in Manchester's gay village.
40 year old Keith Roy Erskine of Osprey Court, Trafford, has been charged with murder and robbery and will appear at Manchester City Magistrates' Court later today.
At the time, police speculated that the victim, David Brown may have been on a date in Manchester City Centre on Thursday 20 September 2007.
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 A coroner has demanded a review of safety at Manchester's canalside Gay Village after a father from Bolton drowned during a family night out.
Wayne Bonner had been to a number of bars with his wife, Lesley, and other relatives when his stepson, Ian Bell, fell from a wall and on to a towpath.
Mr Bonner, aged 44, from Horwich, tried to lower himself on to the towpath, but slipped and fell into the Rochdale canal. His body was recovered six hours later.
Manchester coroner Nigel Meadows urged council and waterway bosses to help reduce the number of canal deaths.
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