This is the video done by the young people of GADD & Darlington YMCA ( not the Village People no!!!) to provide guidance for the providers of safe spaces in the North East. It is part of the work done by GADD with all members of the LGBT community and those who sincerely want to engage with those who have service users who may be LGBT. It is not a solution but part of the process of change that recent legislation has enabled.

As it is LGBT History month we are having a series of articles on LGBT people of the 20th Century here is the First...

Greta Garbo – 1905 - 1990.

Born in 1905 in Stockholm Sweden. She was the youngest of 3 siblings. Greta moved to Hollywood and worked for MGM and paramount pictures. She worked in the silent movie age and part of the golden age. Her 1929 film “the kiss” was the last silent film MGM made... Soon after her career took off, Garbo became known as a recluse; throughout her lifetime she conducted no interviews, signed no autographs, attended no social functions and answered no fan mail. Today she is often associated with her famous line from Grand Hotel: "I want to be alone". There was some speculation, that Garbo was bisexual, that she had intimate relationships with women as well as men, such as the actor John Gilbert. They starred together for the first time in the classic Flesh and the Devil in 1926. Their on-screen "erotic intensity" soon translated into an off-camera romance, and by the end of production Garbo had moved in with Gilbert. Gilbert allegedly proposed to her three times before she finally accepted. When a marriage was finally arranged in 1926, she failed to show up at the ceremony. In 1931, Garbo befriended the writer and socialite Mercedes de Acosta. According to de Acosta, the pair ultimately began a sporadic and volatile romance, punctuated by long periods of Garbo ignoring her and disregarding her many love letters. After about a year, the relationship ended, but they maintained contact. Following de Acosta's claims about her many trysts with Garbo, in her controversial autobiography Here Lies the Heart in 1960, the pair were permanently estranged. According to the memoir written by dancer, model and silent film actress Louise Brooks, she and Garbo had a brief liaison. Brooks described Garbo as masculine but a "charming and tender lover".The 1995 biography Garbo relates Garbo's relationships—which were often just close friendships—with actor George Brent, conductor Leopold Stokowski, nutritionist Gayelord Hauser, photographer Cecil Beaton, and her manager George Schlee, husband of designer Valentina.

Filmography

The 'GADD' TIMES

NOVEMBER 2009 WAD SPECIAL.