Queer Champions Exhibition 2018 – Participants
NAME | BIO |
Alyn Smith | Alyn Smith is a Scottish politician, and Scottish National Party Member of the European Parliament for Scotland. |
Andrew Patterson | Andrew is a former turner and care worker, an authorised preacher and an active ally, voice and supporter of the transgender community in Scotland. |
Ben Hunter | Ben Hunter is a masculine butch dyke lesbian, she hails from Nigeria, she currently resides in Glasgow and volunteers for the Equality Network. |
Ellen Galford | Ellen Galford wrote The Dyke and the Dybbuk, The Fires of Bride, and other lesbian feminist fiction. She’s now writing poetry, some of it in Yiddish. |
Garry Mac | Garry Mac is a Glaswegian writer and comic book artist currently working on a semi-autobiographical queer graphic novel. |
Horse McDonald | Horse is simply one of Scotland’s all-time greatest vocalists and songwriters. “Her voice wraps us up like a great big duvet” – The Scotsman |
Jamie Valentine | Jamie Valentine is co-founder and chair of OurStory Scotland, a charity which collects, archives and presents the life stories of the LGBT community in Scotland. |
Leo Siebert | National Union of Students, Trans Activist |
Lisa Charlwood-Green | Lisa is the Director of The WOW Network which exists to support, guide and connect with LGBT women in the workplace. |
Mitch Alexander | Mitch is a queer videogame designer and artist living in Glasgow, with work focusing on monstrous identity and queer community. |
Mridul Wadhwa | Mridul lives in Edinburgh and works to end gender based violence, her activism focuses on the lives of migrant women experiencing gender based violence. |
Nick Shane | Nick Shane is a Dundee based Mod musician and political activist, with high recognition in music, fashion and Gay Rights campaigning. |
Nosheen | Founder of GLITCH Festival |
Robbie Norval | Robbie is a proud gay man, and a proud social entrepreneur, founder of lingo flamingo – who believes in empowering older adults and challenging stigma about ageing and dementia. |
Robert Gayle | Robert is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene – as actor and performer, writer, artistic director and advocate of equality of access for disabled people. |
Rowan Alison | Rowan is the founder of Glasgow Free Pride |
Stuart Duffy | Stuart is a multi-media journalist and business owner based in Fife and the Founder of Pink Saltire and Fife Pride. |
Sue John | Sue John has been a feminist and LGBTQ activist for over thirty years. She works at Glasgow Women’s Library, the only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history. |
Tom Harlow | International burlesque performer and activist |
Zoe Strachan | Academic and writer |
Louise Welsh | Louise Welsh is an academic and writer who works across genres. She lives in Glasgow. |