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Transgender News

Transgender Awareness Week: new film highlights challenges facing young trans people in Devon

Graham Robson November 13, 2024

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 transgender young people face and encouraging people to ‘be kind’. The film […]

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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

Graham Robson August 14, 2024

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 called ‘Love Lagoon’ […]

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Exhibitions

Out Takes, a celebration of queer cinema by Barnaby Edwards, at Exeter Picturehouse

Graham Robson April 2, 2023

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. 

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Community News

Proud2Be to bring this year’s Totnes Pride celebrations online

Graham Robson August 19, 2020

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.

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Community

Proud2Be receives £160,000 to support LGBTQ+ young people in Devon

Graham Robson June 26, 2020

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.

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Fundraising News

Disco fundraiser in Devon for Proud2Be

Gary Hart April 10, 2016

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 Souza and Rhi Rhythm.

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