Blog - West Yorkshire Queer Stories

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Black lives matter

Does the queer scene in Leeds do enough for people of colour? Yvonne ...

4 years 5 months

"I had a strong urge to go to Mumbai to celebrate Pride"

Sometimes I am cautious; my queerness concealed and tightly contained. Usually when ...

4 years 6 months

"When I saw Susan get on the bus to leave for the last time I had a real Brokeback Mountain moment"

My mum tells me that, when she knew she was expecting me, she unwittingly bought ...

4 years 8 months

"Life at Radclyffe Hall was at times exciting and at others chaotic"

In the spring of ’76 I moved into a large communal house known as Radclyffe ...

4 years 8 months

"You have to take a step into the unknown to survive"

Join us for an evening of poetry and short films inspired by our collection of oral histories.

4 years 9 months

"It felt a little bit like the first time I’d gone to a gay bar"

When I arrived at the University of Leeds from London in 2002, one of the ...

4 years 11 months