BFI Flare 2020 - London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival - 18-29 March - BFI Southbank - bfi.org.uk/flare

S/PTC/6/1/22

March 2020

Paul Thurlow was a volunteer on the Islington's Pride LGBTQ+ archives project at the Islington Local History Centre and later became a volunteer with the Islington Local History Centre. He is a long-term resident of Islington and an active member of the LGBTQ+ community having volunteered with many organisations including Gay Switchboard. He also actively participated in many events and activities.

A4, 36 pages, full colour. Programme for the 2020 British Film Institute's 'BFI Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival'. Formerly known as the 'London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival', the British Film Institute held its first annual festival in 1986. Includes a full page advert for Switchboard (the "LGBT+ helpline" based in Islington), and a half-page add from the HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust (based in Islington) "People on effective HIV treatment CANNOT pass on the virus") Films in the programme included "Sixth Happiness" (Waris Hussein, UK, 1997) staring, and based on the life story of Firdaus Kanga, a gay man of Indian Parsee background with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) who at that time was a resident of Islington (page 19), and "Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club" (Eammon Ashton-Atkinson, UK, 2020) a documentary about the King's Cross Steelers Rugby Football Club, founded at Central Station bar 37 Wharfdale Road, N1 on 1 November 1995.

Terrence Higgins Trust, Switchboard (LGBTQ+ Organisation)

LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+) Community, LGBTQ+ Events, LGBTQ+ Social Life, LGBTQ+ Charities and Organisations, LGBTQ+ Individuals

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