WATCH: The bus driver who fought for gay rights
13 Feb 2017
Our alumnus Abi Hynes on why she wrote her liberating story
The University is celebrating LGBT History Month by hosting ‘the Burnley plays’ at the Martin Harris Centre.
In the 1970s, Burnley was the UK’s battleground for gay and lesbian rights and LGBT History Month has commissioned two brilliant new dramas from Inkbrew Productions to rediscover this amazing forgotten history.
The Burnley Buggers’ Ball, by award-winning playwright Stephen M Hornby, tells the story of a transformative political meeting held at Burnley Central Library which gave birth to the modern gay rights movement.
And our alumnus Abi Hynes tells us how and why she wrote Burnley’s Lesbian Liberator, which dramatises the political activism of a bus driver sacked for nothing more than wearing a Lesbian Liberation badge. She fought back and started a battle won decades later.
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