In the UK, LGBT+ History Month is celebrated in February, so on 26 February our Sunday run took in various sites associated with LGBTQ+ individuals or events in Bristol. The time-span of the events discussed was 500+ years. Here are the stops with links to the entries on Out Stories:

• Stop 1: 7 Berkeley Square, Clifton -

Birthplace of John Addington Symonds

Date: 1840 - 1851

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/104/details

• Stop 2: Bristol University Students Union -

Students support the Sexual Offences Bill

Date: November 1966

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/220/details

University of Bristol Students' Union - Gaysoc started in 1971

Date: 15 December 1971

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/77/details

AIDS information meeting at the Bristol University Student Union, 22 March 1985

Date: 22 March 1985

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/222/details

•  Stop 3: Clifton High School for Girls -

Attended by novelist Mary Renault

Date: Early 20th Century

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/71/details

•  Stop 4: The Downs

Bristol Pride Sports Day on the Downs, 2010

Date: 14 August 2010

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/159/details

•  Stop 5: Ladies Lavatories, Durdham Downs

1930s lesbian meeting place

Date: 1930 - 1939

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/62/details

•  Stop 6: The Gallows at St Michaels HIll

Date: 16th Century - 18th Century

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/73/details

•  Stop 7: Bristol Royal Infirmary

Michael Dillon's pioneering gender reassignment surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary

Date: 1942

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/69/details

•  Stop 8: University of Bristol

Katherine Harris and Edith Cooper at the University College Bristol

Date: 1878

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/74/details

•  Stop 9: College Green

Bristol West elects Stephen Williams, Bristol's first openly gay MP

Date: 2005

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/123/details

July 14th 2012, English Defence League March on Same Day as Bristol Pride

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/93/details

•  Stop 10: Bristol Cathedral

Bishop of Bristol signs 1966 petition in support of homosexual law reform

Date: 1966

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/221/details

Openly-gay Diarmaid McCulloch is ordained a Deacon at Bristol Cathedral

Date: 1987

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/155/details

•  Stop 11: Arnolfini, Narrow Quay ; a supportive space for LGBT+ people

Date: 1977 - 2016

Annual film festivals timed to coincide with Bristol's summer Pride events which began in 1977

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/173/details

Pride events from 1977

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/174/details

Gay Bristol Festival, 8-16th June 1985

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/195/details

Clause 28 protest meeting, 1988

See: https://outstoriesbristol.org.uk/map/#osb/kyp/176/details