A pedestrian was taken to hospital after being hit by a bus on a busy road in south Manchester on Tuesday evening (August 2). The incident sparked a huge emergency services response on Wilmslow Road in Rusholme.
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Manchester’s LGBTQ+ community will be celebrated in a new exhibition focusing on two iconic moments of the city-region’s history.
The Kimpton Clocktower Hotel’s ‘Together As One – A celebration of Manchester’s LGBTQIA+’ exhibition at The Refuge will feature 90s pictures taken at legendary club night Flesh and photos from Manchester’s Section 28 protests in 1988.
As part of a collaboration with the British Culture Archive, the exhibition - which will launch on July 28 - will celebrate the two moments which have played a key role in the changing face of LGBTQ+ rights, culture and acceptance in the UK.
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Photographer Peter J Walsh, who worked at Manchester’s City Life Magazine in the late eighties, captured the anti-Clause 28 protest in the city centre on February 20, 1988. The event was held against Clause 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which sought to make it illegal for bodies, such as councils, to ‘promote’ homosexuality, including a ban on schools teaching the ‘acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’.
More than 20,000 people attended the rally, with the likes of Sir Ian McKellan, Michael Cashman, Sue Johnston and Graham Stringer, the then-leader of Manchester council, all taking to the stage.
"The Anti-Clause 28 demo was one of the largest demonstrations I had covered in Manchester during that period,” Peter says. “The starting point was on Oxford Road, by the Poly and the participants seemed to go on as far as the eye could see. Manchester City Council reckoned there were 20,000 people on the demo.
“It was loud, happy and vibrant. The country had been under Thatcher’s rule since 1979 and people were
A pedestrian was taken to hospital after being hit by a bus on a busy road in south Manchester on Tuesday evening (August 2). The incident sparked a huge emergency services response on Wilmslow Road in Rusholme.
The 1975 have shared a short clip of their new song and video for their upcoming release, ‘Happiness’. Check it out below.The band shared the clip on Twitter and confirmed that the new song would be arriving tomorrow (August 3) at 5:30pm.The Manchester group returned earlier this month with the track ‘Part Of The Band’, which served as the first taste of their fifth album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ (out October 14 via Dirty Hit).The latest song has already been teased with a poster campaign in London and frontman Matty Healy recently shared a black-and-white image of himself in the studio with the upcoming song’s title appearing as the caption.HappinessThe official video premieres tomorrow, 5.30pm bsthttps://t.co/NQyDYFj4lM pic.twitter.com/8tOMplW29q— The 1975 (@the1975) August 2, 2022In a four-star review, NME said that The 1975 were “unafraid to rip up their own rule book” with their latest single.It added: “If ‘Part Of The Band’ is anything to go by, Healy and co.
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