A project by Paul Sammut mining and sharing the queer histories in the High Wycombe and South Bucks area, UK.
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Queer Chanteuse Dusty Springfield grew up in High Wycombe and went to St Bernard’s Catholic School, Daws Hill.
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In 2011 Wycombe Wanderers were the first football club in the UK to sign the Charter Against Homophobia and Transphobia in sport.
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House of Commons swimming champion and Labour MP Chris Bryant used to be curate at All Saints Church, High Wycombe.
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In the early 80s the Wooburn Grange Country Club, best known for it’s starring role in the credits of Fawlty Towers, hosted a gay disco called ‘Basils’ on Tuesday nights.
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Queer actor John Gielgud lived out his later years down the road in Wotton Underwood, Aylesbury.
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Architect, politician and activist Nimrod Ping, one of the first openly gay councillors in the UK, went to school in High Wycombe in the 60s.
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‘Homosexual lifeline seeks to counter bureaucratic snub’ Bucks Free Press, High Wycombe, 04/10/83
From the LAGNA Archives, Bishopsgate, London.
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‘Gays’ demo’ Milton Keynes Citizen, 09/06/88
From the LAGNA Archives, Bishopsgate, London.
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‘Emergency line for homosexuals sought’ Bucks Free Press, High Wycombe, 03/09/82
From the LAGNA Archives, Bishopsgate, London.
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'SWP answers those sex freedom charges’ Bucks Free Press, High Wycombe, 16/10/81
From the LAGNA Archives, Bishopsgate, London.
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‘Sweeping away ignorance about the Gay people’ Bucks Free Press, High Wycombe, 21/03/80
From the LAGNA Archives, Bishopsgate, London.
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‘Man cleared of indecency’ Bucks Free Press, High Wycombe, 22/12/78
From the LAGNA Archives, Bishopsgate, London.
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