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Fragments of memories

Archive materials photographs i had taken in 1987/88

A photograph of a Fight Clause 28, “Be Out and Proud in Bradford” poster taken in 1987. Graffiti “Lesbians out and Proud” sprayed on a subway in Bradford 1988 and Lesbian and Gay Youth Group fly poster on a toilet wall 1988. As well as other photographs of protests and photographs of inside Bradford gay night club Mrs Bs 1988.
and self portraits of me 17 by the railway tracks and in my flat on holmewood council estate.

Additional footage ,
text from the book Section 28: A Practical Guide to the Law, Bradford library copy and footage of Margaret Thatcher Tory party conference speech.
With video clips from Bradford gay night club Fagins, 1980s from the new Bradford LGBTQ+ archive by Castles in the Sky Project.

The lighthouse that features in the video is from Dungeness where the artists and ACT UP activist Derek Jarman lived .

With a sound track of The Pet Shop Boys “Always on my Mind” which is part of a memory that I have of dancing in Fagins with my half brother in 1987. Kevin who later committed suicide in 1992 .
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“Maybe I didn’t HOLD you all those lonely lonely times and I guess I never told you I’m so happy that your mine”

 Some install shots from the exhibition/event for Bradford city of Culture Back in the Pink