Have
you just moved into residential care or are you about to do so?
Are you concerned about
coming out to your fellow residents?
The (gay) producer of
a BBC Radio 4 documentary would love to speak to you! I am making a sensitive
programme about the difficulties older gay people face when they go into
residential care. If you get in touch with me you are under no obligation
to take part in the programme and I would be happy to explain more and
answer any questions you may have.
Call Sally Heaven on 0117
9742470 or email sally.heaven.01@bbc.co.uk
Sally Heaven
Researcher
BBC Audio & Music
0117 9742470
INFORMATION ON DILLY RENT WANTED BY WRITER
The acclaimed poet and novelist Jeremy Reed is currently researching
a book on Dilly Rent, the first of its kind, between the period 1960-85,
and would be very pleased to interview anyone who worked there or has strong
enduring memories of the place in its heyday.
jeremyreed@btopenworld.com
RESEARCHER WANTS HELP REGARDING
POSTWAR GAY BROTHELS IN LONDON
I am, as my subject line indicates doing some research
into the history of London's gay scene. In my particular case I'm looking
into the history of gay brothels between the war and the present and I
was wondering if your site and its contacts might be able to throw up some
former employees or customers for me. I'm not looking for just rent boys
and (although the remeniscences on your site show supplies some interesting
examples of places where guys sold sex) but people who worked in or visited
actual houses of disrepute.
This is an honest attempt to capture a bit of gay history
that may otherwise be lost.
Lewis Davis
htebcam2@btinternet.com
POLARI SPEAKERS SOUGHT
I am involved in
a project which aims to track down some "original" speakers of Polari --
i.e. those gay men who used it for real, rather than just picking a bit
of it up from Julian and Sandy.
It's an important piece
of our history, and unfortunately there seem to be few recordings of "real"
Polari speakers out there. Is there any chance you could mention us on
your site and ask those people who are interested to get in contact. polari.recording@googlemail.com
Many thanks
Tim.
BOOKS YOU MAY FIND OF INTEREST
My partner Nigel and I have both - as older gay men, 61
and 69 respectively - written our memoirs.
mine, DAVID EVANS is entitled APPOINTMENTS
WITH THE DREAM FAIRY and is about me and growing up and coming to
london in the sixties and later working for two high-flying artists management
companies in the music and theatre and film industries, looking after the
careers of cat stevens, elton john and queen - amongst many others. i also
have three books all available on the biographical topic of my friend freddie
mercury as well as other novels originally published by the now defunct
MILLIVRES BOOKS.
My partner NIGEL QUINEY has two memoirs, the first
is A COCK-EYED OPTIMIST and the second, just
published, is entitled MORE COCK-EYED OPTIMISM.
we joke privately that the third will be called MORE COCK, LESS OPTIMISM!
All these books are published by TUSITALA
PRESS and available via bookshops or online via GARDNERS
BOOK DISTRIBUTORS of Eastbourne, the largest distributors in
the country.
Thank you for doing your website - it's a very necessary
resource and reference point. so many young people of all persuasions have
now both forgotten or have never been aware of the brave lives that have
been led for many centuries in order for them to enjoy the wonderful freedom
they have today. 1967 seems a long time ago ...
hope you can make something positive out of this information
take care
best wishes
David Evans and Nigel Quiney
INVITATION
TO PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH.
I am in the last months
of an MSc in Gerontology, which is the study of age and ageing, at Southampton
University. My Dissertation is on the informal social support networks
of older lesbians, gay men and bisexual people. A lesbian myself, I am
interested in the extent to which formal social care might be needed, how
people would like this to be provided, and by whom. I am hoping to take
this on to PhD level and contribute to the shaping of social policy in
this area. I am asking members of various gay, lesbian and bisexual social
network sites, aged 45 and over, to answer an online questionnaire. The
questionnaire is completely anonymous. I shall be conducted follow-up interviews
with a small cross-section of people and at the end of the questionnaire
it asks if you would wish to be one of them. You will also be offered feedback,
including a copy of my final dissertation. Please feel free to email me
with any questions you might have to sw2y07@soton.ac.uk.
If you would like to proceed straight away, please click on this link to
the questionnaire:
https://www.survey.iss-caa.soton.ac.uk/q4/open.dll?session=5181389594803385
You will be asked for
User Name, please put: NONAME and for Group put: OLGB2.
I really hope you will
complete the questionnaire because with an ageing population it is important
to ensure that there will be appropriate services for older lesbian, gay
and bisexual people.
Sue W.
LAMMDANET
