LGBT History Cornwall UK

 Sprocket Trust Archive  est.1995

"One Queer Gay Life"

Over 25yrs of Gay Equality Campaigning

 

This website is included in the National Community Archive.  License has been granted for inclusion in the British Library UK Web Archive. The website has been made recommended reading by staff member to University students studying  LGBT Queer Studies 

 

NB: 2016 :This website in its entirety accepted & acknowledged by the UK Statutory Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse 

as CSA victim witness testimony submitted by Malcolm Lidbury against organisations & authorities primarily in Devon & Cornwall

(ie homophobic police & Intercom Trust) which collaborated in ignoring & covering up Child Sexual Abuse

(& further perpetuating homophobic abuse & hate crimes by authorities & organisations). 

 

"When the highly respected LGBT historian Rictor Norton tweeted that gayhistorycornwall.com website was very interesting

 

 ...we categorically knew we were getting it right". 

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    2009 - HENRY SCOTT TUKE RA

     

    Intercom Trust, Exeter decided to remove all reference of Cornwall artist Henry Scott Tuke RA from LGBT History in the region. Dr Michael Halls referring to Tuke paintings in minutes from their Intercom Trust meeting as ‘pedophilia’.  

     

     

    This quote from the minutes of The Intercom Trust meeting states:-

     

     

     

    1.2 Michael (Hall) (of Intercom Trust) made it clear that Intercom could not support the use of the artworks of Henry Scott Tuke in this event or any future events. He made it clear that pederasty and paedophilia have no place in an LGBT History pride event: these are part of the history of abuse and exploitation.

    The group agreed that the Tuke’s work was perceived as abusive and sexually exploitative of young people and was not an appropriate exhibition to include in a family event.

     

     

    Intercom not for the 1st time behaving more like rampant homophobes than an LGBT support group by turning on anyone who queered their anti-male art stance

     

    The Intercom Trust subjected Lidbury to a very personal attack for for  his raising concerns about Intercom's banning of the iconic & highly respected formerly Cornwall based artist Henry Scott Tuke.  Intercom had expressed intent to remove all reference of Henry Scott Tuke & his paintings from  southwest LGBT history. Gay persons or groups who dared express a difference of opinion to that of Intercom Trust quickly found themselves excluded from LGBT groups over which Intercom had sway in the southwest.

     

    In 2008 a restrospective exhibition of Tukes work was held at Truro City museum, Cornwall.  Sir Elton John lending the exhibition seventeen of his Tuke paintings.

     

    May 2008; The BBC Sir Elton John & Tuke Exhibition

    May 2008 Daily Telegraph  Sir Elton John & Tuke Exhibition

     

    Some of the organisations & businesses Intercom Trust were by proxy concluding & condemning for  harbouring pedophilia in the form of Henry Scott Tuke paintings of young men:-

     

    City Art Gallery, Leeds
    Royal Polytechnic Society
    Falmouth Art Gallery
    National Tate Gallery, London
    Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
    Roy Miles Gallery, London
    City of London, Guildhall Art Gallery
    Dublin Municipal Gallery
    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
    Pyms Gallery, London
    Cornwall County Council
    Private Collection of Sir Elton John
    The Royal Academy of Art, London
    Royal Institution of Cornwall
    Scouting Association- Baden Powell House
    Bury Art Museum, Lancashire
    Whitford & Hugues Gallery, London
    New South Wales Gallery, Australia
    Bonhams Fine Art Auction
    University College Famouth
    Royal Cornwall Museum
    Matt & Andrej Komasky Gallery

    &

    Sir Elton John 

     

    Feb 2009: Video  ‘Henry Scott Tuke – it’s not child porn Stupid’ (18,329 views up to 2015)

     

    Peter Tatchell, Human Rights Expert had this to say:-

    Re: SW LGBT History Month and the Henry Scott Tuke controversy:

    While I agree wholeheartedly that we must protect children and must never condone child exploitation or abuse, I am alarmed to learn that this commendable concern has led some people to propose a ban or censorship of artistic works by the renowned painter Henry Scott Tuke.

    First, his paintings are not sexual and only a deeply perverse mind would view them as such.

    Second, since there is nothing indecent or shameful about the naked human body there is, equally, nothing indecent about its artistic depiction.

    Third, Henry Scott Tuke is an acclaimed artist of international repute. His works have been exhibited in many prestigious galleries, where they have been viewed with appreciation by adults and children alike. I am sure these esteemed artistic institutions would not have hosted his paintings if there was anything depraved about them.

    Fourth, if Henry Scott Tuke's paintings are obscene or unsuitable (for adults or children) I am sure they would have long ago been prosecuted or banned. They have not been either prosecuted or banned .

    Fifth, since a very significant proportion of art involves the depiction of nude or semi-nude figures, also often of young persons, a judgement that brands Henry Scott Tuke's work as exploitative or abusive must, logically, also brand much of the entire canon of art as exploitative and abusive. This is obviously an absurd osition to take.

    I would, respectfully, urge you to reconsider any decision to exclude Henry Scott Tuke and his paintings.

    In our quest for LGBT acceptance, we should never sell our souls and bend to the demands of the new puritans and the baying mob, but stand firm and steadfast for what is right, just and fair - and defend art and beauty against the ugliness of narrow-minded prejudice.

    Yours sincerely and with best wishes,

    Peter Tatchell

     

    Intercom Trust has remained unrepentent and although removing references directly to Henry Scott Tuke, Intercom  has continued in its hostility towards traditional male nude art & any who disagree with Intercom Orwellian dictates on LGBT issues.

     

    NB:  Hostility carried out by Intercom Trust resulted in a Hate Crime incident being recorded against Intercom Trust by Devon & Cornwall police in 2015.

     

    The Intercom Trust, Police & other of Cornwall's authorities re-writing factual LGBT history was the catalyst for compiling this LGBT history archive from factual reference materail.  The conduct of Intercom Trust a timely reminder of a quote from George Orwell's 1984 -

     

    "Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth".

     

    It is for this reason gay people must not allow our history to fade, or be erased, re-written by gay equivelent of modern gay  Uncle Tom's, contemporary Kapos who would appease & toady too the very homophobic organisations & authorities, like Devon & Cornwall police which traditionally have been (& still very much are) homophopbic.

     

    In response to continued Intercom Trust ban of C19th/20th  gay artist Henry Scott Tuke  a Cornwall LGBT History Month Art Sculpture Project for 2016

     

    #Cornwall Guide:

    http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/events/2016-02-13-cornwall-lgbt-history-sculpture-project.htm

    #South West Federation of Museums & Art Galleries

    http://www.swfed.org.uk/news/cornwall-lgbt-history-art-sculpture-studio-exhibition-2016/

    #WhatsonCornwall

    http://www.whatsoncornwall.co.uk/arts-crafts-exhibitions/open-studios/sculpture-exhibition-lgbt-history

    #CornishGuardian

    http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/event/Cornwall-LGBT-History-Open-Studio-Art-Sculpture/event-28402046-detail/whatson/event.html

    #Cornwall Art Craft Directory

    http://www.cornwall-arts-and-crafts.co.uk/events/event-details.php?id=8460

    #Gscene

    http://gscene.com/news/gay-art-sculpture-exhibition-during-lgbt-history-project-in-cornwall/

    #WestCornwallEvents

    https://westcornwallevents.co.uk/events/cornwall-lgbt-history-art-sculpture-exhibition-2016

    #Outeverywhere

    http://www.outeverywhere.com/events/openstudiogay-523526.html

    #CornishLinks

    http://cornishlinks.uk/events/lgbt.htm

    #Youtube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kZyZCqXG0A

    #GayHistoryCornwall

    http://www.gayhistorycornwall.com/#!gay-sculptures-lgbt-history-2016-/c156a

     

     

    Cornwall Lesbian Line Closure

    NB: June 2009 Cornwall Lesbian Line closes after 20yrs of community service, having been unable to obtain financial assistance from Intercom Trust to continue running the women only helpline.   As a condition of financial assistance Intercom had wanted CLL confidential contact list.  Those running the CLL were unwilling to hand over their confidential contacts to Intercom. 

     

    Next go to  Police bury Gay Witness testimony & ban gay radio broadcast

     

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    Malcolm Lidbury, Cornwall LGBT equality & HIV/AIDS awareness campaigner (left) & Peter Tatchell, Human Rights Campaigner holding the Cornish Flag of St Piran  

    Boy on a beach by Tuke.

     

    According to Intercom Trust pedophilia owned by the Royal Polytechnic Society 

    'Nude boy on rocks' painting by Tuke

     

    Owned by Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Pedophilia according to

    Intercom Trust

    'The Blue Jacket' painting by Tuke

     

    Owned by Kirkless Museum

    More Tuke paintings condemed as being pedophillia by the Intercom Trust can be viewed here on the BBC website

     

     

    More Art condemned by the Nazi like ban of painting by Henry Scott Tuke RA from Cornwall LGBT history by the Intercom Trust 

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Henry_Scott_Tuke

     

    Tate Gallery archive of Henry Scott Tuke which Intercom Trust would erase from both Cornish & LGBT history

    http://www.tate.org.uk/search/henry%20scott%20tuke

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