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Queer activists invade the Manchester Pride 2008 balloon launch

Queer demonstrators invade the Manchester Pride 2008 launch - watch the video

Watch the six minute video (super-widescreen format). It includes two minutes of exclusive archive footage of August Bank Holiday 1991. Read more...

 

World Naked Bike Ride 2008 in Manchester: watch the video

Watch the video of the Manchester World Naked Bike Ride 2008

Cyclists dared to bare all in chilly conditions on Friday 13 June at Manchester’s third annual Naked Bike Ride. We asked the cheeky riders and members of the public what they thought.

 

Archive video: Liberation '91

Come with us back to Manchester in 1991 when the Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgender community marched through the city centre to demand equal rights.

Quite a shock for the general public in those days before Queer As Folk and Manchester Pride.

Watch historic video footage of the Liberation 91 lesbian and gay rally in Manchester, 1991

 
   
 

News & Comment

In the blog, video-blog or whatever you want to call it. More...

2004/2005 entries here.

 

Favourite software

Over the years I've got together a great set of programs that work well for me. More...

 

EVENTS

Feast (2008)

Video from Manchester's annual picnic by the lake, in Platt Fields Park, Rusholme.

 

LOCAL HISTORY

Most Haunted

TV show Most Haunted claims that the Granada TV studies are built on the site of an old graveyard. But is it really?

 

Bank robbery in Didsbury

In 1889 the Union Bank in Didsbury was robbed at gunpoint by a man who seized handfuls of gold and ran off. But he didn't get away with it.

 

Putting swine flu into perspective

3,000 people died in Manchester in the flu epidemics of 1918/1919. At the time, the population of the city was more than 425,000 and it was heavily polluted with poor living conditions.

 

Manchester then and now: Sackville Street, St. Luke’s Church & Chorlton On Medlock

This fascinating area was at the heart of the industrial revolution.

 

VIDEO MAKING

Creative commons abuse

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives has infringed the rights of a music composer.

 

Why relatively few good videos get made

Despite the great advances in digital technology.

 

LGBT

Fooled by a fake

How a fake descendent of the Russian Tsar fooled gay Manchester in 1991 (video).

 

Lesbian & Gay Foundation: the beginning of the end?

The employment tribunal reaches a decision, Outnorthwest magazine is slashed ina funding crisis, 62% of the annual income goes to pay 23 employees. Read more. Or see the 2007/08 accounts here. Including a cost of £61,589 to generate voluntary income of £100,736!

 

Robinson Crusoe

The gay love story behind the classic 1960's BBC TV series. A special article for LGBT History Month.

   
 

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About g7uk.com

One of the reasons why this site exists is to challenge some of the misinformation, exaggeration and lazy reporting that exists in the media. In particular local news is in crisis and is failing to hold local politicians and businesses to account. With inevitable consequences.

This site is not about personal attacks or conspiracy theories. Wherever possible it deals in solid research and facts.

Some of the subjects covered are LGBT related, but much of the site isn't and relates to my other interests which include film-making, photography, sound recording, consumer issues, politics and local history. In particular I love Manchester's industrial past.

The name of the site has nothing to do with the 'g7' meeting of finance ministers (as some disapproving radical seemed to think one time). It's my middle initial and shoe size, followed by UK! The aim was to create the shortest possible domain name, so it would be easy to remember and type in. But choices were limited even back in 2002.

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