Transgender News Transgender Awareness Week: new film highlights challenges facing young trans people in Devon Pic shows day of filming at Bideford Pride with filmmaker, Bells Kennedy-Compston To coincide with Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19), Transilience – an organisation supporting young transgender people in North Devon – is releasing a new short film, educating people about the challenges tra By Graham Robson • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Curtis and Arthur, a pair of gay flamingos in Paignton Zoo, Devon, are now parents after adopting an abandoned egg and raising the chick as their own Curtis and Arthur, a pair of gay flamingos in Paignton Zoo, Devon, are now parents after adopting an abandoned egg and raising the chick as their own. The pair are some of the first flamingos to successfully hatch a chick at the zoo since 2018. To document flamingos’ breeding better, an initiative c By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Exhibitions Out Takes, a celebration of queer cinema by Barnaby Edwards, at Exeter Picturehouse Barnaby’s new exhibition features portraits saluting LGBTQ+ artists on both sides of the camera. It is a celebration of the vibrant and vital contributions made to the world of cinema by LGBTQ+ artists, a fellowship of which he is proud to be part of. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
News Devon celebrates ten years of Pride! The historic market town of Totnes in rural Devon, saw its tenth Pride event at the weekend, which brought the LGBTQ+ community together with their allies, to celebrate difference and demand queer liberation! By Graham Robson • 3 min read
General News Cornwall sees two homophobic incidents in November Cornwall has seen multiple reports of homophobic harassment, both directed at gay men, throughout November. By Rachel Badham • 2 min read
Community News Proud2Be to bring this year’s Totnes Pride celebrations online Totnes Pride to lay on a whole host of events from Monday, August 31 to Saturday, September 5, which will bring the LGBTQ+ community together with their allies, to celebrate difference and increase understanding around issues that are still faced by the community. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Community Proud2Be receives £160,000 to support LGBTQ+ young people in Devon Totnes-based social enterprise, Proud2Be, is celebrating after being awarded £160,000 in National Lottery funding to support its work with LGBTQ+ young people and their families in Devon. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Fundraising News Disco fundraiser in Devon for Proud2Be Proud2Be, the Devon based social enterprise which supports LGBT+ people, are hosting a disco to raise funds to support their community services. The disco will be on Saturday, April 23, 2016, from 8pm-midnight (doors close at 10.30pm) at The Barrel House, Totnes, with music from resident DJ’s Madame By Gary Hart • 1 min read
