Launch of Digital Archive!
To coincide with LGBT+ history month, we are delighted to be launching our newly completed audio-visual digital archive!
Three people dressed in colourful rainbow clothes and make-up.
Exeter Pride are thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new audio-visual digital archive as part of our celebration of LGBT+ History Month!
Dive into a vibrant journey that spans 15 incredible years, featuring retrospective interviews with organisers and attendees, a treasure trove of donated photos and film, and our digitised collection of memorabilia!
One of the highlights is our short film, 15 Years of Protest, which beautifully intertwines these elements, and highlights why Exeter Pride is as essential to the LGBT+ community today as it was at its inception.
The inspiration drawn from the film and audio visual archive has sparked two fantastic spoken word pieces: Arrival by the talented Jasmine Gardosi and Reasons by the amazing Chris White.
We've been sharing the exciting journey of creating this digital archive on our blog, and we’re not stopping there! Look forward to our monthly articles exploring a wide range of topics — from the history of our march, our long partnership with Exeter Phoenix, and the perspective of individuals with disabilities and/or neurodivergent perspectives who’ve attended Exeter Pride
All these elements of the archive and more can be found at www.exeterpride.co.uk/heritage-project
A huge thank you goes out to the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the National Lottery Players for their generous support. This project would not have been possible without you!’
A picture of interviewee Max Cohen with a speech bubble containing the quote “We all marched through Exeter… now we have people lining the streets but being LGBT was different then … being visible felt different”.
