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MK Q:mmunity Tales – LGBTQ+ Heritage Film Showing

MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Boulevard, MIlton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK9 3QA

  • 18 Sep 2025
  • In person
  • Pre-booking required

Q:alliance’s LGBTQ+ Heritage Project presents an afternoon film showing at MK Gallery, showcasing 2 films created as part of this project: Our Queer Voices and The Trans Script, each followed by a short discussion and Q&A.

The Milton Keynes LGBTQ+ Heritage Project has unearthed an incredible amount of information from archives, shared memorabilia, interviews and discussions at monthly History Clubs.

LGBTQ+ people have not always been visible in the MK community, but we have always been here. Did you know there was an MK Campaign for Homosexual Equality in the 1970s, a Lesbian and Gay Switchboard in the 1980s, a youth group called Youthline in the 1990s? We had our own community centres: the Freedom Centre in Neath Hill and Q:Space in Witan Gate in the early 2000s!

MK Q:mmunity Tales – Our Queer Voices, produced in collaboration with Living Archive MK, brings to life these stories through interviews with over 30 people who were there.

MK Q:mmunity Tales – The Trans Script surfaces the experiences of trans and non-binary people living in our city today.

The films will be introduced by the Heritage Project workers who compiled the research and the Q&A will give you the opportunity to meet many of those who participated in the making of the films.

Alongside the films we are exhibiting our findings at our exhibition (MK Q:mmunity Tales – Not Going Underground) and launching our e-book ‘MK Q:mmunity tales – local LGBTQ+ history since ‘67’. The e-book is available to download via the Q:alliance website.

This project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Timings & Tours

Thursday 18 September:
1400 - 1630

Location & directions

MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Boulevard, MIlton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK9 3QA

Directions:
MK Gallery is based in the heart of Milton Keynes at the junction of Midsummer Boulevard and Marlborough Gate, beside Milton Keynes Theatre on Margaret Powell Square.
Contact on day:
The Heritage Team at Q:alliance
Telephone number:
+441908112196

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Pre-booking required
Booking conditions:
Please book via the Ticketsource link below
Booking website:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/living-archive/mk-q-mmunity-tales-lgbtq-heritage-film-showing/e-xzmxza

Accessibility details

There are four disabled parking bays directly outside the front of the Gallery which are shared with Milton Keynes Theatre. Unfortunately, they cannot be reserved. There are metered parking spaces and a multi-storey car park in the vicinity.

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