Nottingham Creative Community News

Proud to be Creative: An Interview With Write Pride Organiser Hayley Green

Representation is a bit of a buzz-word at the moment, so it's refreshing to see it done right. Nottingham-based poet and event...

The Notts Charity Lending an Ear to the LGBT+ Community

28 July 17

Thursday 27 July 2017 marks fifty years since an Act of Parliament was passed that partially decriminalised homosexual acts between consenting males, and acted as one of the first major steps in the liberalisation of laws relating to homosexuality. David Edgley, one of the founding members of the Notts LGBT+ Network, has seen vast swathes of change over the years, so we sat down to pick his brains...

Gay in the 80s: From Fighting for Our Rights to Fighting for Our Lives

26 July 17

The eighties was a period of mixed fortunes for Britain’s LGBT+ communities, or lesbian and gay communities as we were known then. Sustained campaigning throughout the seventies had, by the turn of that decade, seen LGBT+ rights moving into the mainstream political agenda, but the emergence of AIDS in 1981 hit us on both a personal and political level...

Promoter Focus: Shady Cow

26 July 17

We caught up with one of the most inclusive promoters about town...

Nottingham's Queens of Drag

24 July 17

Nottingham is full of fun, and some of the boggers who do the damn thing best are the city’s drag queens. We’ve rounded up the ladies you’re most likely to find lathering the slap on, miming away, and chucking shade abaht like nobody’s business. People of Nottingham; we introduce to you, the queens of drag...

Lauren Goes To Pride

08 August 16