Liverpool: Two-year project on life of April Ashley launched
by Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk
27 July 2012, 2:57pm
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Arts festival Homotopia is preparing to launch a two year heritage project to research, explore and document the experiences of transgender people in Britain over the past 70 years, focussing on the life of trans model and actress April Ashley MBE.
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, there will be a number of 'reminiscence' workshops and opportunities for members of the transgender community to share their own experiences.
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The exhibition will use Ashley's personal documents, photographs, letters, newspaper cuttings and television clips to chart her journey from George Jamieson, born in Pitt Street, Liverpool in 1935 through her early career at sea with John Prescott, to cabaret performer for Einstein and Dali, her life-threatening gender reassignment surgery in 1960, actress alongside Bob Hope, friend to Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, Vogue model and marriage to a future peer of the realm.