Welcome, to the Voices and Visibility Website.
The website enables you to find out more about the law, people, symbols and themes that are represented in picture on the Voices and Visibility: Uncovering Hidden Histories wallchart.
There are three ways you may navigate around the website;
1 – There is a menu bar at the top of the page.
2 – There are four purple buttons in the middle of this home page.
3 – You can click on the wallchart at the bottom of this home page.
You can use accessibility functions by clicking on the eye icon at the top right of the screen.
There are audio descriptions of the wallchart and the profile photographs of the personalities.
To play these click on the ▶ button.
The audio description for the wallchart describes all elements of the chart.
Wallchart
Edward Carpenter
Ethel Smyth
Alan Turing
Lionel Blue
Radclyffe Hall
Ted Brown
Jan Morris
Jimmy Somerville
Jeffrey Dudgeon
Labi Siffre
Lisa Power
Kath Gillespie-Sells
Stephen Whittle
Jackie Kay
Barbara Burford
Peter Tatchell
Chris Smith
Linda Bellos
Christine Burns
Russell T Davies
Angela Eagle
Waheed Alli
Sue Sanders
Phyllis Opoku-Gyimah
Nicola Adams
Symbols
Fanny and Stella
Tom Daley
1861 Death Penalty for buggery abolished
2014 Marriage Same Sex Couples
2010 Equality Act
2012 Transgender England, Wales NI
1887 Death Penalty for buggery abolished Scotland
2005 Offence hate crime: Sexual Orientation
2006 Civil Partnership
2004 Gender Recognition
2003 Employment Rights
2001: Equal age of consent
2000 Duty to promote equality
2003 Repeal England and Wales
2000 Repeal Scotland
1999 Transgender Employment UK
1988 Section 28 and 2A
1982 Decriminalise Homosexual Acts NI
1980 Decriminalise Homosexual Acts Scotland
1967 Decriminalise homosexual acts England and Wales
Themes
Flags page
Downloadable wallcharts (high resolution top, low resolution bottom)
