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.
See the Newest GADD Times
for full details Click Here
to see.
The people at
the HMRC Tax & Revenue have produced a guidance booklet to
help the LGBT communities and their tax issues. Please download
the PDF from the link below.
Dance your way
on a Monday night Avalon
Harvey's or Retro and then after at
Seen Joe's Bar and
Inside Out now join the growing number of Gay
Friendly Bars in Darlington on a Monday Night. Let us know if you know
of more???.
Click here for
more information on these nights out.
If you are a witness or a victim of
Homophobic Hate Crime please report it ! Either go to
http://www.report-it.org.uk/