| Friday 11 July 2003, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| Gay Times and What’s On film columnist Mansel Stimpson gives a talk on Dirk Bogarde, illustrated with video extracts from his films. |
| Saturday 21 June 2003: Conway Hall |
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| Annual Humanist Lunch. Sally Feldman, a former editor of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, will talk on Mickey Mouse degrees, higher education and humanist values. To book tickets (£17.50 before 31 May; £20.00 thereafter), contact the British Humanist Association, 1 Gower Street, London WC1E 6HD (Telephone 020 7430 0908; e-mail info@humanism.org.uk). The price of admission on the door is £22.50. |
| Friday 13 June 2003, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| Quentin and Philip. A talk by Andrew Barrow based on his book Quentin and Philip, a memoir of his friendship with Quentin Crisp and Philip O’Connor. Barrow first met Crisp in 1971 and their friendship lasted until Crisp’s death. Through Crisp he met the wild, much married, “genius” Philip O’Connor. The two men had known each other since the beginning of World War II when they both inhabited the same select corner of Low Bohemia (London’s Fitzrovia). Andrew Barrow is a writer and journalist who regularly contributes to the pages of the Independent, Daily Telegraph and Spectator and is author of two novels, The Tap Dancer and The Man in the Moon, both published by Picador. |
| Friday 9 May 2003, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| A Copper for your Thoughts. Britain’s most senior openly gay police officer, Commander Brian Paddick of the Metropolitan Police, speaks on the subject of Gay Rights and the Police. |
| Friday 11 April 2003, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| Is Britain really a secular society? asks Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society. |
| Friday 14 March 2003, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| Jo Stanley, co-author of the new book Hello Sailor talks about the hidden history of gay life at sea. “When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. This unique account shows what it was like to be queer at sea at a time when land often meant straightness.” |
| Friday 14 February 2003, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| Darwinism and Fundamentalism – a talk to mark Darwin Day given by Mike Howgate, an authority on Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Mike Howgate is a lecturer at the Natural History Museum – which recently opened its prestigious new Darwin Centre – and founder of the Dinosaur Collectors Club. This event is officially registered as part of the Darwin Day Program. |
| Friday 10 January 2003, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| Islam and Homosexuality. Adnan Ali, moderator of Al-Fatiha UK, the support group for LGBT Muslims, draws on recent research to highlight the morality of same-sex relationships in modern British Islamic society. |
| Friday 13 December 2002, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| Gay Director Extraordinary. Gay Times and What’s On film columnist Mansel Stimpson talks about the life and work of the British film director Anthony Asquith on the centenary of his birth, with video extracts from his films. Asquith’s screen successes include The Importance of Being Earnest, Fanny by Gaslight, The Way to the Stars, The Winslow Boy and The Yellow Rolls Royce. |
| Saturday 9 November 2002, 12.30pm: Covent Garden, London |
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| Annual Reunion Lunch. Following the success of last year’s lunch held in the private function room of the Navajo Joe Restaurant, King Street, Covent Garden, London, we return to the same venue this year. The guest speaker is Darren Johnson, Principal Speaker of the UK Green Party and leader of the Green Group on the London Assembly. The cost is £18 per person. For further details and a booking form, please contact George Broadhead. |
| Friday 4 to Monday 7 October 2002: Plymouth |
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| This year’s GALHA Annual Residential Weekend Gathering takes place at the Grand Hotel, Plymouth. Built in 1879, the Grand Hotel is a Grade 2 listed building situated on the famous Plymouth Hoe with views overlooking the Sound. All members of GALHA and their friends are welcome. The weekend will include an excursion to the Eden Project. For further details and a booking form, please contact Dean Braithwaite. |
| Friday 13 September 2002, 7.30pm: Conway Hall |
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| Mollygone! The gay historian Rictor Norton, author of Mother Clap’s Molly House, describes the closing down of the gay brothels known as Molly Houses in the 1720s following a campaign by the Christian Brethren. |
| There was no meeting in August. |
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