GAY KIDS UK: A TEASER AT THE TOWNER

7. April 2013 - English


On Thursday April the 4th Member of Parliament for Eastbourne and Willingdon Stephen Lloyd (right) took part in an informal presentation of the forthcoming “Gay Kids UK – Childhood Revisited” exhibition at Towner. Also present were Community Strategy and Involvement Manager Monica Ray from Eastbourne Council (second from the right), Read more…

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EASTBOURNIANS: MEET YOUR LOCAL MP!!!

1. April 2013 - English


Gay Kids UK – Childhood Revisited is proud to announce the  support of Stephen Lloyd, the Member of Parliament for Eastbourne and Willingdon.  On the forthcoming informal teaser at the Towner, Thursday this week, Stephen Lloyd will favour the project with his presence and a short speech. You can also Read more…

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EASTBOURNIANS: PUT THIS IN YOUR DIARY!!! PART 3

25. March 2013 - English


Attending Gay Kids UK, the Meet and Greet event at the Towner April 4th at 7 pm., is a good excuse to take a closer look at the museum. And why not why not treat yourself to a Sidecar at The Grand Hotel afterwards?

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EASTBOURNIANS: PUT THIS IN YOUR DIARY!!! PART 2

18. March 2013 - English


Meet and greet the team behind Gay Kids UK, Childhood Revisited at the Towner Museum, April 4th 7pm. Live and in the flesh on a whirlwind visit from Norway we proudly present Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty (curator), Rolf Martin Angeltvedt (producer) and Bera Ulstein Moseng (writer).

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EASTBOURNIANS: PUT THIS IN YOUR DIARY!!!!!

12. March 2013 - English


At this informal meet and greet event the Gay Kids Team will present appetizers from the project. So far we have collected childhood photos and oral histories from more than 50 informants – most of them from Eastbourne and surrounding areas. We promise you: There will no boring lectures. Just Read more…

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EASTBOURNE RAINBOW GROUP – A SOCIAL CLUB FOR LGBT-PEOPLE 50 PLUS

5. March 2013 - English


The group, which is co-organized by Derek and Kenneth, started up in 2011 under the umbrella of Age Concern in Eastbourne. The Rainbow group is an informal support network for lesbians and gays 50 years or older. Eastbourne isn’t exactly Brighton and if you are new to Eastbourne or maybe Read more…

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THE HART IS THE HEART OF EASTBOURNE

26. January 2013 - English


The one and only LGBT- pub in Eastbourne and its owner Andrew Morris, who also is the chairman of BourneOut, has been the heart of the Gay Kids UK – Childhood Revisited project since it started up in the UK in 2010. Here lots of the pub’s regulars have been Read more…

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ARE YOU LIKE DAVE? THIS ONE IS FOR THE BOYS ….

24. January 2013 - English


In our eternal hunt for good childhood photos of people who define themselves as being Gay (LGBTIQ) as adults in the UK, we launch yet another “we want you” poster.  

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GAY KIDS IDOL OF YESTERDAY DAVID BOWIE – RELEASES NEW SINGLE!

14. January 2013 - English


After 10 years of recording silence David Bowie is back. As usual he manages to take us all by surprise. Where are we now? is a reflective and nostalgic piece, taking us back to Berlin where Bowie lived and recorded his famous trilogy (Low, Heroes and Lodger) from 1976 – Read more…

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GAY KIDS ALL OVER BRITAIN – WE WANT YOU!!!

11. January 2013 - English


Gay Kids Bera & Lill-Ann will be coming to England for a long over due visit to Eastbourne, January the 17th to the 27th. As winter refugees from Norway we sincerely hope the Suntrap of the South lives up to its reputation. In December 2011 the Norwegian weather traveled with Read more…

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GAY KIDS OPENING AT MAIHAUGEN, MAY 31th

22. May 2013 - Norwegian

Welcome to the grand Gay Kids opening at Maihaugen museum in Lillehammer, May the 31th at 10 am. Olemic Tommessen (Høyre) and the actor Stig-Werner Moe (The Journey to the Christmas Star, Blåfjell) are coming, are YOU coming too??? This freshly curated exhibition documents the childhoods of grown-up Lesbian, Gay Read more…

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GAY KIDS NORWAY: RECOMMENDED IN A NEW GOVERNMENTAL WHITE PAPER

9. May 2013 - Norwegian

The Gay Kids team is proud to be mentioned in the Governmental White Paper nr 34 (2012–2013) that outlines proposals for the Norwegian health politics in the forthcoming years. Under the heading  “Sex education in schools” the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training recommends Gay Kids Norway  – the Book Read more…

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GAY KID SIMON

19. April 2013 - Norwegian

I am an actor. That’s great fun! Imagine being paid for playing all day long. In the 1990s I took part in a television series called the “Seven Sisters”. That was the first time in Norway an out and proud gay actor portrayed a gay man on television. Pretending to Read more…

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EQUAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS ACCORDING TO THE GOLDEN GIRLS

9. April 2013 - Norwegian

The Gay Kids team applauds Barack Obama and David Cameron for their outright support of marriage equality. Cameron argues that as a conservative and great supporter of marriage, he had no choice but to favour equal rights for gay and lesbian couples. Radical as this seems, way ahead of Obama Read more…

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GAY KIDS NORWAY AT LILLEHAMMER, MAIHAUGEN IN MAY

5. April 2013 - Norwegian

The Norwegian Gay Kids exhibition has been on tour since November 2008. The next stop is the winter Olympic town of Lillehammer with an indoor show at the open-air museum called Maihaugen. The exhibition, specially curated for Maihaugen, will be open from early May through the summer holidays of 2013. Read more…

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GAY KID HAAKON

3. April 2013 - Norwegian

For me, love is love. Whether you fall in love with a girl or a boy, it’s exactly the same emotions! Falling in love is all about meeting the special one for you. Sometimes love hurts. But most of the time love is a magical feeling. It is this breath-taking Read more…

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ORLANDO CRUZ – THE FIRST OUT & PROUD GAY BOXER

27. March 2013 - Norwegian

The Gay Kids team doesn’t know much about boxing. But one thing we know. Coming out as a professional athlete on top of your career makes you belong to the club of the few very special ones. Orlando Cruz, the first professional boxer to come out as gay, demands respect Read more…

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YOUCHAT.NO – THE LGBT-FAVOURITE AMONG NORWEGIAN TEENAGERS

22. March 2013 - Norwegian

If you are a Norwegian speaking Gay Kid you should visit Youchat.no. Reaching more than 900 LGBT- persons every year, Youchat the chat and the blog is the most successful social arena for LGBT-youngsters in Norway. Recently the Norwegian Directorate of Health awarded Youchats success with additional funding. Soon you Read more…

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THE NEXT DAY – THE NORWEGIAN SUPERMODEL ISELIN STEIRO PORTRAYING YOUNG DAVID BOWIE

20. March 2013 - Norwegian

This blog have recently saluted David Bowie as the Gay Kids hero of yesterday. Bowie, the androgynous superstar who made it cool to be gay in the 1970s, newly released the album «The Next Day» after 10 years of total silence. He is definitely celebrating his gender bending Berlin years. Read more…

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GAY KIDS AFGHANISTAN

21. February 2013 - Norwegian

Gay Kids has international ambitions and our ultimate goal is to establish Gay Kids North Korea sometime in the distant future as a grand finale on our world tour. Although a pretty unrealistic goal, it paints a picture about how far we want to travel to spread our message of Read more…

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