Somerset’s smallest Pride: how rural communities are stepping out and moving forward
The countryside is best when everyone can take pride in it. Joe Jukes, who researches LGBTQ+ experiences of the countryside, reflects on rural Somerset’s first Pride festival in
‘I can’t even begin to describe how I feel right now. When I first came out at 15, I could have never imagined a festival like this taking place in Midsomer Norton’.
These are the words of Nik Jovcic-Sas who, in , along with co-organiser Grant Johnson and the local Community Trust, lay the little former mining town of Midsomer Norton on the map with the first &#; and smallest &#; Pride festival in the region.
'I can’t even begin to describe how I feel right now.'
Nik Jovcic-Sas, Celebration organiser
Nik’s overwhelming, indescribable feelings the morning after the inaugural ‘Pits and Perverts’ benefit ball, held on a Saturday night in June, are understandable: rural England doesn’t always seem accommodating to queer people. What had happened here was important.
Many rural-dwelling woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, trans and quee
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Narrative Acts: Telling Tales of Life and Love with the Wrong Gender
James Valentine
Abstract: This presentation provides an illustration of performative social science through the world's first project to point on multi-media storytelling with a nationwide LGBT people for public representation and museum archiving. Where voices are unheard, hidden or suppressed, the images and representations of a group may be stereotyped and discriminatory, constructed about the community by those on the outside. LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people have experienced social exclusion and marginalisation, and their stories have been neglected or distorted. Their lives and loves contain been characterised as wrong: mistaken in medical or moral terms. OurStory Scotland was established to investigate, record and celebrate the history and experiences of the LGBT community through their own words. Our approach combines action analyze and performative social science: it is participatory and emancipatory, developing the truth of a community th