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Exploring Birmingham's LGBTQIA+ histories and heritage
Digital Archive (coming soon)
A project by Shout Q***r Arts & Culture
Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund

12/10/2026

We're bringing back our sober Saturday social events where you can meet new people in the community and chat over a good cuppa! Our first Saturday Social is the 24th October, 3:30-5:30pm in our hub pace ☕💛

06/10/2026

LGBTQ+ BRUM WE NEED YOU 💛 Help us archive our history for future generations.
We are seeking LGBTQ+ people interested in being interviewed to talk about about their lives and memories within Birmingham (and surrounding areas).

📝Fill in our expression of interest form: https://ow.ly/2Uc250ZUQRl

03/08/2026

Lacey has joined BQA as our Project & marketing Lead/Curator 💜 "I’m proud to lead this archive as it’s aims reflect values and goals I’m passionate about and have channelled into my work throughout the years. Being a part of Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ history through this archive project has given the team and myself an opportunity to document many previously unheard voices and hopefully, add a bit of Q***r joy and light in a time that feels as though it’s getting darker."

Lacey has worked in Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ community in various capacities for over 10 years and is currently an Artist, Marketing Manager and Project Manager. Connecting, showcasing and working with local LGBTQ+ Brummie businesses & creatives is her passion. She loves all things LGBTQ+, kitty cats, pink things & fluffy things.

🔗If you would like to contribute to Birmingham Q***r Archive by giving an oral history, donating ephemera or volunteering with us, fill out our expression of interest: https://forms.office.com/e/HZkyxLN4r6

31/07/2026

'Gay Rights At Work' newspaper advert for conference, 1982.

🗃️Part of Gay Birmingham Remembered 2007-2009, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Team: Lesley Pattenson, Dave Coffin, Inge Thornton and volunteers.

30/07/2026

Candice has joined BQA as our Digital Archive Officer 💜 "For the last six years, I've been working closely with local archivists and collections documenting various aspects of Birmingham life; Vanley Burke (Soho House), Baff Akoto (BOM) and the Birmingham Now oral history project (Birmingham Museum & Gallery). I'm keen to continue developing publicly accessible platforms for stories derived from my native Birmingham — especially for communities who are often underserved and overlooked in our city's wider narrative. I'm a firm believer that archiving is a civic duty and my hopes is that in joining the project, we can begin to shift the narrative on who gets to be an archivist and what gets to be recorded and collected."

Candice Nembhard (okcandice) is an artist-curator, writer, archivist and musician. They are the director of sonic practice studio Bedtime Stories, co-founder of q***r dance party SHUBZ and a radio resident for Berlin's Refuge Worldwide. Their practice is concerned with grief methodologies, Black audio-visual archives and uses of the sonic in civic space. Previous positions include Curator (Sheffield Doc Fest), Digital Curator (Birmingham Museum & Gallery), Curator (Eastside Projects), Guest Lecturer (Royal College of Art), Acquisitions Advisor (Government Art Collection) and fellowships with the Woven Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, and Obsidian Foundation. Candice is currently researching the sonic-somatics of grief through their live performance series 'Offering' and is training to be a Death Doula.

🔗If you would like to contribute to Birmingham Q***r Archive by giving an oral history, donating ephemera or volunteering with us, fill out our expression of interest: https://forms.office.com/e/HZkyxLN4r6

24/07/2026

Hassan has joined BQA as our Lead Interviewer 💜 "What really draws me to this project is that it sits at the intersection of things that have shaped my work for years: q***r storytelling, archival practice(s), and working directly with communities to document lived experience(s).

So, a project like the Birmingham Q***r Archive feels incredibly important, particularly because of its focus on voices that have historically been overlooked: women, Global Majority communities, trans and non-binary people. It is also very important to me that the interviews we conduct are not extractive and are instead led with care and as a means to platform underrepresented voices from our community. And on a local level, being based in Birmingham, I think there’s something really powerful about creating a resource that captures the city’s q***r histories in a way that people can access, recognise themselves in, and build from."

Dr Hassan Hussain is a researcher, theatre-maker, and cultural facilitator. His research predominantly investigates the de/construction of q***r identities both on, and off, the British stage. His practice explores the transformative effects of (q***r) histories and lived experience(s) on present and future iterations of (q***r) identities, communities, and (sub)cultures. Hassan loves rewatching Buffy, playing Pokémon & losing himself on the dancefloor.

🔗If you would like to contribute to Birmingham Q***r Archive by giving an oral history, donating ephemera or volunteering with us, fill out our expression of interest: https://ow.ly/AV2p50ZnkTN

23/07/2026

World Aids Day sexual health advert featuring 'Pedro' at Glamourous Bar, 2004.

🗃️Part of Gay Birmingham Remembered 2007-2009, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Team: Lesley Pattenson, Dave Coffin, Inge Thornton and volunteers.

22/07/2026

We recently held our first BQA steering group with members of Birmingham's LGBTQ+ community and we invited along artist Ellis Miles to visual notetake the important occasion. We've been gagged at how insanely beautiful the outcome is! Thank you Ellis 💗 Zoom in for the Brummie Q***r chit chats we had 🔎

Interested in volunteering with the archive? Fill in our form: https://ow.ly/Ocfq50Zq3aQ

21/07/2026

'Midlands Zone' Magazine, 1998 featuring photographs from Birmingham Pride.

🗃️Part of Gay Birmingham Remembered 2007-2009, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Team: Lesley Pattenson, Dave Coffin, Inge Thornton and volunteers.

20/07/2026

Fran has joined BQA as our second Assistant Interviewer 💜 "I'm excited to be part of the team recording conversations for the Birmingham Q***r archive for now, for the past and for the future. The importance of an archive to recognise voices that are not always clearly present or heard, to document Birmingham's q***rness and diaspora. The focus on Global majority, trans, non-binary and women's voices is a reason and passion to be involved with this project. More than ever, giving increasing danger, minimising and taking away of the personhood and rights of LGBTQA+ people, listening, documenting, asking questions of people and their experiences is about care and recognition. Birmingham is a place I live and I'm delighted to be part of this team and project to document people in their own words to show q***r life as it has been lived, is being lived, could and will be."

Fran is an artist working in writing, performance and audio. She also sit pets. Fran makes work in response to histories of place, people, nature, objects and the way stories are collected and told. Her work has been co- produced and commissioned by Birmingham Rep, Duckie & Fierce Festival and She's been an artist in residence at The National Waterways Museum and Warwickshire Archives. She also made a podcast Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night (strange stories for sleepless nights) and audio works for Coventry City of Culture and The National Trust. You can find her usually trying to get wet in a pool, pond or puddle.

🔗If you would like to contribute to Birmingham Q***r Archive by giving an oral history, donating ephemera or volunteering with us, fill out our expression of interest: https://ow.ly/AV2p50ZnkTN

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