Culture And Memory

Our Authentic Older LGBT+ Heritage and Lives

Working together with the North Midlands LGBT+ Older Peoples Group (OLGBT), we will co-create a heritage project that explores and celebrates the identity and heritage of older LGBT+ residents of Stoke-on-Trent and the North Staffordshire area. Amongst the project outcomes will be a new LGBT+ community archive that features photography and oral histories that tell the unique story of LGBT+ lives and histories in the area and their connection to Stoke-on-Trent, delivered in 2025, the city's 100th year anniversary. We will curate an exhibition of unique heritage content in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, and in the City Libraries, where content can be shared and new audiences can engage with the stories and pictures. We will celebrate and commemorate the participants, their lives, achievements and identity through the content, the exhibitions and a planned publication that will be shared with communities across the region.