The exhibition took place over 6 days at the View from the Top gallery, which is on the 4th floor above Waterstones bookshop.  About 500 people saw the exhibition and nearly 100 of them filled in our questionnaire.  We intend to have other exhibitions at View from the Top each February.

 

 

 

The Pink Professions display. 192 LGBT famous faces with 4 faces for each profession, from artist to royalty, from politician to film director, from cartoon to serial killer.

 

 

Ten years of Nottingham Pride festivals.

 

 

 

The background to the Outhouse Project, the attempt at a Nottingham LGBT Centre which never got off the ground.

 

 

The Community Table, with contributions from Healthy Gay Nottingham, Switchboard, Notts Police, Breakout and several others.

 

 

A selection of LGBT linked books provided by Waterstones. You will also see that every wall surface was covered with displays which dealt with about 25 themes.

 

 

Quite a lot of free food and drink on the opening night. It all went ... but more next year.

 

 

Councillor Leon Unczur made three presentations on behalf of NRH.

 

To the New Foresters pub, for 50 years service to the LGBT community - the award was received by Debbie Law, the pub's manager.

 

To Ike Cowen (now aged 90) for immensely valuable contributions to gay rights in the 1960s and 1970s ... and also for helping to start the first gay club in the Midlands.

 

To the Holocaust Centre at Laxton for their acknowledgement of the suffering of LGBT people in the Holocaust and their commemoration of that suffering by a pink triangle plaque in their garden of remembrance. The award was accepted on behalf of the Centre by Anna Larner - pictured above.

 

 

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