#queeraf | By National Student Pride

The UK's little known first ever Trans+ conference

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Did you know that 50 years ago, Leeds held the UK's first-ever Trans+ conference?This week, Alexander Parnham Cope, a trainee broadcast journalist at City University specialising in data and investigative journalism travels back to a city he called his home. In Leeds he uncover the curious and little-known history of the city, which held the UK’s first ever Transgender conference some fifty years ago. Leeds welcomed transgender people to its hotels and halls then. It is proud of its history of supporting trans people now. Meet one of the organizers of a 50th anniversary celebration of the conference LunaJoin us for a walking tour of the city's queer sites with Kit HeyamInterview with one of the last surviving members of the Trans group of the Gay Liberation Front, Roz KaveneyEnd this episode loving Leeds's little-known but inspiring gender-diverse history. Season five of the award-winning QueerAF podcast is for the millennia-old history of Trans+ people and gender-diverse communities with our first-