Events this week: LGBT history talk and film

We seem to have some overspill from York LGBT History Month 2015, with two LGBT history-related events happening in York this week!

Pride, politics and protest

Laura Miles recently authored the Socialist Workers Party pamphlet Pride, Politics and Protest – A Revolutionary Guide to LGBT Liberation, in which she argues that periods of progress for LGBT people have also been periods of struggle for the working class. She will discuss this in a talk hosted by York Socialist Workers Party on Wednesday 4 March, 19:30 at the Seahorse Hotel. After the talk, the meeting will be opened up to discussion. Laura touches on this theme and others in a recent Socialist Worker article.

Film screening: The Imitation Game (2014)

On Friday 6 March, York Student Cinema will be showing The Imitation Game, a film about Alan Turing, a famous World War II codebreaker who was prosecuted for homosexuality. York Student Cinema screenings are open to the public. Tickets are available on the door for £3 from 18:15, and the film starts at 19:00. For more information, see the synopsis below (recycled from when it was at City Screen!) or see the York Student Cinema website.

Benedict Cumberbatch masterfully portrays mathematical genius Alan Turing in his race against time to break Germany’s Enigma code during World War II.

Flashbacks following Turing’s arrest for homosexuality in 1952 chronicle his battles with the commander of the Bletchley Park codebreakers (Dance) before winning the trust of an MI6 boss (Mark Strong) and the funding to build a huge electro-mechanical computer which would help him decipher the code.

Directed by Morten Tyldum (JO NESBO’S HEADHUNTERS), Cumberbatch’s twitchy, savant-like Turing doesn’t suffer the fools he initially has to work with, but in Joan Clarke (Knightley), a woman who, like him, has an exceptional mathematical brain, he finds an intellectual equal and friend. The result is both gripping and profoundly moving.

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Ynda Jas

Ynda created York LGBTQ+ History Month in 2014 while working at York St John University. They then developed it into an independent organisation, and served as Lead Coordinator from 2014 to 2016, which included overseeing its registration as a charity. They remain loosely involved from a distance, mostly helping with web updates. During their seven years in York, Ynda also studied at both of York’s universities and served periods as secretary of York Pride and York LGBT Forum. They also founded Non-binary London and are the DJ coordinator at the queer cabaret event and community Bar Wotever at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

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