Hearts & Histories

Episode 5: a conversation with Betty

Welcome to our podcast Hearts & Histories, hosted by Ryan Kennedy and brought to you by the Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival and EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.  During this five episode series, older and old LGBT+ people who live in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin reflect on how their lives and experiences have made them the person they are today. This episode’s guest is Betty Halford. Betty is 95 years old, having been born in 1929. She lives in Shrewsbury, and identifies as lesbian. She shares memories of unexpectedly falling in love with a woman in her fifties; being involved in the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp; and then latterly becoming one of the founding members of SAND. If this episode has inspired to you to make your own provision more inclusive to LGBT+ people, then head to www.lgbtsand.com to see more of our resources.  These resources have been split into beginner, intermediate and advanced; and each resource includes an indication of how much time you need in order to get value from it.  So whatever stage of the inclusion journey you’re on, and however long you’ve got, these resources can help you to EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.

Episode 4: a conversation with Peter

Welcome to our podcast Hearts & Histories, hosted by Ryan Kennedy and brought to you by the Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival and EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.  During this five episode series, older and old LGBT+ people who live in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin reflect on how their lives and experiences have made them the person they are today. This episode’s guest is Peter Roscoe, who was born in 1952, and is in his early seventies. He lives in Shrewsbury, and is adjusting to life after losing his long-term partner Geoff last year. Peter has many stories to tell from his lifetime of activism, and his involvement in local LGBT+ organising in Shropshire. If this episode has inspired to you to make your own provision more inclusive to LGBT+ people, then head to www.lgbtsand.com to see more of our resources.  These resources have been split into beginner, intermediate and advanced; and each resource includes an indication of how much time you need in order to get value from it.  So whatever stage of the inclusion journey you’re on, and however long you’ve got, these resources can help you to EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.

Episode 3: a conversation with Helga

Welcome to our podcast Hearts & Histories, hosted by Ryan Kennedy and brought to you by the Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival and EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.  During this five episode series, older and old LGBT+ people who live in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin reflect on how their lives and experiences have made them the person they are today. This episode’s guest is Helga McCorrisken, who lives in rural Shropshire, and is in her seventies.  Helga is a transgender woman and shares how she knew she was different from childhood, but why she decided not to transition until her sixties. If this episode has inspired to you to make your own provision more inclusive to LGBT+ people, then head to www.lgbtsand.com to see more of our resources.  These resources have been split into beginner, intermediate and advanced; and each resource includes an indication of how much time you need in order to get value from it.  So whatever stage of the inclusion journey you’re on, and however long you’ve got, these resources can help you to EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.

Episode 2: a conversation with Lis and Mary

Welcome to our podcast Hearts & Histories, hosted by Ryan Kennedy and brought to you by the Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival and EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.  During this five episode series, older and old LGBT+ people who live in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin reflect on how their lives and experiences have made them the person they are today. This episode’s guests are Lis and Mary, who are both in their seventies, and live in the Telford area. They also recently got married in a Quaker ceremony. Despite being a couple, they’ve had very different experiences of growing up as lesbians, and it’s really interesting to hear how those experiences have contributed to their conversations around ageing.  If this episode has inspired to you to make your own provision more inclusive to LGBT+ people, then head to www.lgbtsand.com to see more of our resources.  These resources have been split into beginner, intermediate and advanced; and each resource includes an indication of how much time you need in order to get value from it.  So whatever stage of the inclusion journey you’re on, and however long you’ve got, these resources can help you to EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.

Episode 1: a conversation with Mike

Welcome to our podcast Hearts & Histories, hosted by Ryan Kennedy and brought to you by the Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival and EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.  During this five episode series, older and old LGBT+ people who live in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin reflect on how their lives and experiences have made them the person they are today. This episode’s guest is Mike Southern. Mike is a gay man who lives in Shrewsbury. He was born in 1937, and is currently 87 years old. During this conversation, Mike shared memories of his childhood, including the dual discrimination he suffered being both an illegitimate child and homosexual. He spoke of being arrested for cottaging when he was younger, but also about how he found a community of LGBT+ people when he moved to Shrewsbury. If this episode has inspired to you to make your own provision more inclusive to LGBT+ people, then head to www.lgbtsand.com to see more of our resources.  These resources have been split into beginner, intermediate and advanced; and each resource includes an indication of how much time you need in order to get value from it.  So whatever stage of the inclusion journey you’re on, and however long you’ve got, these resources can help you to EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion.