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".

A History of LGBT Cornwall - "One Queer Gay Life"

- INDEX

"This is rumour control...& here are the facts"

In 2008 it became apparent much of Cornwall's early LGBT social history of later part of the C20th century was being sanitised.

Early LGBT Cornwall community activities, campaigning & achievements were being 'airbrushed' out & erased from official sources of social Cornwall LGBT history month projects by later institutionally funded 'equality & diversity' organisations.

This in part has now been addressed through the Sprocket Trust archive of factual referenced aspects of LGBT history of Cornwall which 'some' in various authorities would prefer others did not know or acknowledge.

A History of LGBT Cornwall - "One Queer Gay Life"

(Timeline 2007 - Onwards)

2007 - Cornwall Pride Beach Day Arrest

2007 - Pink Pasty Video Channel

2008 - Govt Audit & Human Right Enquiry

2008 - Cornwall Pride & Gay Suicides

2009 - Intercom -V- Henry Scott Tuke RA

2010 - Police bury gay witness video

2011 - Truro PRIDE ban Gay Art & Artist

2011 - Forensic Clynical Psychologist report

2012 - National Child Sex Abuse Scandal

2013 - Essex police identify Child Rapist

2013 - Court Gagging Order

2014 - £2-10 million Tax Fraud & LGBT PRIDE

2014 - Not Quite Tom of Finland, but still Finland

2015 - CSA Inquiry Gay Survivor Testimony

2015 - Intercom Trust abuse of Child Sex Abuse Survivors

2015 - Cornwall Gay Sculpture LGBT History Exhibits

2016 - Cornwall Gay Art, Suicide & Disability

Lidbury Homocentric Male Nude Art

A History of LGBT Cornwall - "One Queer Gay Life"

(Timeline 1991 - 2006)

1991 - ICT LGBT Newsletter Cornwall

1990's Chimney Stax – Rainbow Gay Club,

1994 - 1st Cornwall PRIDE & LGBT Fetes

1994 - HIV/AIDS Diagnosis Andy Smith

1994 - Equal Age Of Consent Campaign

1995 - On going Police Homophobia

1995- Goodbye ICT - Hello Sprocket Trust

1996 - Death of HIV/AIDS Campaigner

1997 - Gay Health Project Cornwall

1997 - Castrate Gay Men

1999/2000 Gay Dinner Party Homophobia

2000 - Plymouth Pride Forum

2004 - Police Homophobia & Hate Crimes

2005 - Homeless Gay/Bi Youth

2006 - Gay Youth 'Stop & Search'

2006 - Gay Assaults -True Vision

2006 - Fagbutts Newsletter

2006 - Civil Court Order

Gay Cornwall LGBT History