50 LGBTQI+ People Who Changed The World

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Performance & Talk 28th June 2023 7:30pm.

Join us at Strawberry Hill House for a talk with the authors Florent Manelli and Clare Summerskill, about the publication of the new book 50 LGBTQI+ who changed the world and its accompanying exhibition. This will be followed by Clare Summerskill performing her one-woman comedy show (with song).
Florent Manelli is an illustrator and author from Perpignan, France. He is also an activist fighting for LGBTQI+ rights and the environment. He published his first book, 40 LGBT+ qui ont changé le monde (Volume 1) with Editions Lapin in 2019, followed by a second volume in 2020. The book is being published in English in 2023 - 50 LGBTQI+ who changed the world will be launched alongside the UK exhibition.

Clare Summerskill is an independent academic, a playwright and a comedian and singer-songwriter. She wrote the introduction to Florent Manelli’s 50 LGBTQI+ who changed the world (Aurora Metro Books), and her publications include Fifty Years of Lesbian and Gay Oral History (Tollington Press), and New Directions in Queer Oral History – Archives of Disruption (Routlege), which she co-edited. She is also the co-founder of the Oral History Society’s LGBT special interest group.
Clare has been performing her one-woman comedy stage shows for audiences in the UK and US for over two decades. She has been a guest on Richard and Judy C4, appeared in The Royal Variety Show ITV, and been part of the line-up of the legendary Stonewall productions at The Albert Hall. She has written for comedy shows on BBC Radio 4 including Weekending and Heated Rollers, and has been described, by Woman’s Hour, Radio 4 as ‘The lesbian Victoria Wood’. Her humour is warm and welcoming, and often far too close to the bone for comfort!

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