LGBT History Month: Items from Perthshire Pride added to museum collection
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Local drag queen Scarlet Skylar Rae.
Items from Perthshire Pride have been added to Perth Museum and Art Gallery’s permanent collection in celebration of LGBT History Month.
Arts trust Culture Perth and Kinross announced earlier this week that the original Perthshire Pride flag – created in 2018 – would be among items to go on show in the Fair City.
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Also included in the museum’s collection is the Pride Western Australia flag, donated by local drag queen Scarlet Skylar Rae.
The flag was signed by the entire Pride Western Australia board and gifted as part of the Perth to Perth Partnership set up between Perthshire Pride and Pride Western Australia in November 2019.
LGBT History Month: Items from Perthshire Pride added to museum collection
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Among the items was the original Perthshire Pride flag which was created in 2018 for the first Pride event and held by Sir Ian McKellen during Perthshire Pride’s first-ever Pride march attended by over 7500 people in 2019
Sir Ian McKellen and members of Perthshire Pride with the Pride flag, which is now part of the museum collection, at the march in 2019 (Image: Perthshire Advertiser)
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Booker Prize-winning writer Douglas Stuart will headline the first virtual Soutar Festival of Words
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Booker Prize winning author Douglas Stuart will headline a major literary celebration in Perth.
The 2021 Soutar Festival of Words is going ahead in April, albeit in a virtual form for the first time.
Organisers at Culture Perth and Kinross (CPK) have promised three days of readings, performances and conversations with writers, poets and storytellers from across Scotland.
Mr Stuart, the Glasgwegian novelist behind 2020’s hugely acclaimed novel Shuggie Bain, is among the guests who will appear online, via CPK’s YouTube channel and Zoom.
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