Posts Tagged ‘export’
Brian Cope
The following story was shared through an interview between Brian Cope & Friends of Ruby. Brian grew up in a time when being gay was a psychiatric disorder, and until he was in his 20’s (1969) was a criminal offence. Brian is an individual who came out late in life, after he had shared a…
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Jack Jackson
Originally from a very small conservative island, Jack escaped their old life of finance and heteronormativity in 2012 with an unplanned move to Toronto having met a Canadian whilst travelling. During a forced period of being unable to work whilst awaiting documentation, Jack found photography and began studying what surrounded them – dogs, fashion and…
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Eleanor Laing
Eleanor’s Experience Growing Up as LBGTQI2S: “I was a child-in-care in the 80’s and I would have greatly benefitted from such a safe place like Friends of Ruby within my chosen community. Foster care placements and communal care environments were woefully ill-equipped at the time, to kindly or effectively support those young people who fell…
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Tommy Smythe
1985, the AIDS pandemic had taken hold just as I was coming of age and considering coming out. It was a dangerous and highly politically charged time. By 1990, my 19th year, I had an amazing group of gay friends. Handsome, creative, promising young men. Then they nearly all became infected. Nearly all of them…
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