Bury Council's LGBT Employee Group

03/02/2025

British author Alan Hollinghurst (https://www.instagram.com/p/CstenGNoBs9/?hl=en) said he is “delighted and deeply touched” to be awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list for services to literature. The 70-year-old writer earned the Booker Prize with The Line Of Beauty in 2004, the first work of gay fiction to win the prestigious literary award.

His book is about Nick Guest, a young aesthete and Oxford graduate who moves into the London home of his university friend, Toby Fedden, the son of a rising Conservative MP. This brings Nick into a world of privilege, with him meeting Baroness Thatcher at a party while high on co***ne, as it chronicles the spread of Aids and the hero’s sexual conquests.

In 2006, Pride And Prejudice screenwriter Andrew Davies brought the novel to the small screen with a BBC adaptation (https://www.instagram.com/p/CsVxHiJIfyi/?hl=en) starring Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens as Nick.

He said in a statement to the PA news agency: “I’m delighted and deeply touched to be given this quite unexpected honour for doing something I have always loved doing: making up stories about the world I’ve inherited and tried to play my part in.

(Text https://www.aol.co.uk/entertainment/line-beauty-author-alan-hollinghurst-223000198.html)

13/10/2024

Morning all!

Please check out our new website for the Bury LGBTQI+ Forum. Massive thank you to fellow committee member David Murphy for designing and managing it!! ❤️

Check it out for all our drop-in sessions and upcoming events.

https://www.burylgbtqi.co.uk/

We are a locally based registered charity formed to support members of the LGBTQI+ community, to include their friends, families and colleagues within Bury.

04/05/2024

02/01/2024

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that to mark LGBT History Month the Bury LGBTQI+ Forum is hosting a book launch of ‘One Love’ Matt Cain’s brand new novel. Tickets are free and include arrival drinks and canapés.

Friday 2nd February 6.30pm-9.00pm

Bury Art Museum

Join the Bury LGBTQI+ Forum and Novelist Matt Cain to celebrate the launch of his brand new book 'One Love'.

30/10/2022

Watched a film on BBC iplayer ‘After love’ -intersectional drama around faith, women and gay issues. Good recommendation

20/09/2022

The Queen was head of the Church of England which is anti LGBTQI +. King Charles will now be taking on that role. Please support Jayne Ozanne’s campaign in making the truth become light

05/09/2022

Didsbury Pride 2022

06/04/2022

WE ARE BACK!

It has been a long wait but Bury Pride is finally back, bigger and better than ever!
This year our fabulous event will be held at the Castle Armoury Drill Hall on Castle Street.

This is a ticket only event! Please reserve your tickets today here:
www.burypride.co.uk

Let’s make this year the best pride Bury has ever seen!
We have lots of surprises up our sleeve leading up to the grand event so keep your eyes peeled.


Bury College Manchester Evening News Bury Council BBC North West Bury Times

13/02/2022

Dining with Ian Hargreaves and Bill

22/11/2021

Brilliant weekend at the Unison LGBTQI + Forum in Brighton. The North West won an award for recruitment and organising

14/10/2021

2-4 pm Saturday at Bury Art Gallery- the opening of the great socialist Edward Carpenter’s exhibition and an opportunity to see a cringe spectacular film of David Catterall, Natasha Franklin and I being interviewed and then walking round Bury in socks and sandals

14/10/2021

I’m hoping to put a bid in for a cycling group. Two groups would include a beginners group who lack confidence and an experienced group. We will provide bikes but you can also bring your own. We have 3 people already in for the less confident.Please message me if you’re interested