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B]WHO is the Pink Pasty or in this case 'utterlydestroyed'?[/B]
"I have every sympathy for those falsely accused & who endure the commonplace practise of police abuse & intimidation as a result. This is my story to date "
Malcolm Lidbury: - Gay Equality & HIV/AIDS Campaigner, Artist, Writer, Sculptor.
Born in Barnet Middlesex, 1959, Malcolm was the younger of two sons. He grew up in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, going to Mount Grace Comprehensive School. He moved to the County of Cornwall in 1977, worked as a herdsman, antique restorer and at Mount Wellington Mine, one of the last working tin mines in Cornwall. He served six months in prison in 1988. He has been married once and divorced.
1989 he came ‘out’ as a gay man. He was founder, publisher, & editor of the ‘Independent Cornish Triangle’ 1992-1994, a local LGBT newsletter in rural Cornwall, UK with both male & female readership, it had over 1,000 subscribers.
Tim Teeman, former editor of the National Pink Paper wrote of Lidbury in 1997 as:- “Malcolm is more than just an effective campaigner. He is also an extremely brave and forthright one. He is the most public face of homosexuality in the region. This is a tough position for anyone to hold. Not only must he face the prejudice of narrow minded heterosexuals, he must also combat fear and ignorance on the part of gays in Cornwall, who would prefer certain matters to remain private and not discussed.”
In May 1994 Lidbury organised the first ever Gay PRIDE gathering in Cornwall, an evening in support of the London PRIDE Trust. Attended by Teddy Witherington, London Pride Trust Director, Adam Jeanes London Pride Chair, & ‘Yvette’ of Love Muscle.
In August 1994 Lidbury’s partner, Andrew Roger Smith was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. The couple fought a public battle against prejudice and discrimination. Their home subjected to dog excrement attack, graffiti, they received hate mail and death threats, local youths ‘stoned’ Andrew, after he had gone blind as a result of an HIV/AIDS related symptomatic condition. This was reported to Cornwall police, police reaction
Police Quote "Your gay and have HIV/AIDS, what do you expect?"
Cornwall police did nothing to assist. The couple slept with pre-prepared petrol bombs on their window sile, least they needed to defend their home in which Andrew was blind.
The couple won an Ombudsman enquiry & compensation against Kerrier District Council for maladministration for failing to comply with housing benefit regulations to Andrew, who was gay & terminally ill.
In May 1995, Gay Times Magazine named Lidbury in the 200th celebratory edition as one of the top 200 gay people in Britain for contribution to gay community, equality & HIV/AIDS campaigning and awareness in Cornwall.
Lidbury was a trustee of the HIV/AIDS Cornwall Aids Council, trustee for the discretionary HIV/AIDS Sprocket Trust and gay men’s voluntary support worker for the Truro City Hospital GU Clinic.Lidbury organised and ran an LGBT supper group, along with a midweek lgbt social group & a summer weekend tea garden throughout 2003-05.
He organised the only gay rally in Cornwall on equalising of the age of consent, which featured in the CH4 television documentary "Age of Dissent", produced by Will Parry, one of the young men who took Britain to the European Courts over the age of consent, leading to the equality of consent. Lidbury jokes that Will left Cornish pasty crumbs all over his front room carpet.
Lidbury was the LGBT STONEWALL Equality 2000 representative for the Falmouth/Camborne constituency.In April 1996, Malcolm and Andrew publicly contributed taking part visibly in an HIV/AIDS documentary made by Westcountry television ‘Days of Judgment’ about HIV/AIDS in the south west of England at a time when it was publicly dangerous to be open with both ones gay sexuality and his partners HIV/AIDS status in Cornwall.
3rd Oct 1997, readership of the National LGBT newspaper Pink Paper voted Lidbury as No. 119 of the 500 people who had historically had the greatest influence upon gay life in Britain.
In Nov 1996, Lidbury whilst taking part in a live television studio debate as invited guest speaker on LGBT issues, he received on behalf of two Spanish gay men an apology on Westcountry television from the English Tourist Board, WestCountry & Cornish tourist board for homophobic prejudicial breaches of the British tourist board ‘pink’ book of rules.
In 1997, following the death of Andrew Roger Smith, Lidbury posthumously won on behalf of his former partner a public apology from Cornwall County Council for adverse treatment and failure to deliver statutory care to Andrew as an HIV/AIDS sufferer.
Lidbury was a founder member of the Cornwall & Isles of Scillies Health Authority Gay Men’s Health steering group and instrumental in creation of the Cornwall Gay Men’s Health Project in 1997. Now known as Healthy Gay Cornwall
Unfortunately the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Health Authority took the attitude ALL gay men were potential criminals and put the Criminal Probation Service in charge of administering the Cornwall Gay Mens Health Project.
As a result this ostracised & excluded many informed gay men from the Cornwall gay health project, including Mr Lidbury who resigned in disgust.
He has been subsequently barred from all access to gay health care via the Cornwall gay health project ever since
Ironically, Lidbury was personally responsible for writing a damning and widely circulated report on HIV/AIDS:- "Implication for Cornwall".
The report sponsored by the National Gay Business Assoc. The C.A.R.A Trust, The Life Benefits Resource Foundation, Ivan Massow Associates, Gay West Lesbian & Gay Society, Bristol, Body Positive Somerset, The Holistic Therapy Centre Plymouth & The Sprocket HIV/AIDS Trust.
Lidbury attended in 1996 as an independent delegate at Health Authority conferences in Plymouth & Salisbury and he was instrumental in obtaining the original increase in funding for HIV preventative project for gay men in Cornwall.
In Oct 1997, he made and won an Advertising Standards Authority complaint against a local business, ‘Trago Mills’. The Trago millionaire owner Mike Robinson had run adverts in local Cornish newspapers advocating “the castration of gay men”.
In 1997 following further harassment from Cornish authorities Lidbury attempted suicide, he withdrew from active contribution to gay equality and HIV/AIDS campaigning.
In 2004, the LGBT Intercom Trust asked Lidbury to assist with a forum on Cornwall LGBT community opinion of the Criminal Justice Service as part of research for the Lord Justice Kay award 2005.
The original location for the lgbt meeting was cancelled in part due to the conduct and actions of Helston police officer DC woods (thankfully retired) against Mr Lidbury.
Valuable insight into Cornwall police thinking & attitudes against gay persons between 2004-07. DC Magnus Scott has much to answer for his instigation of abuses against gay people in Cornwall carried out by the Cornwall police
# When a gay employer enabled 16/17yr old student gay/bi employees to attend a GU Clinic in work time to receive professional sexual health advice & inoculations against Hepatitis
…Cornwall police considered this to be an offence of ‘SEXUAL GROOMING”
# When a gay employer allowed 16/17yr old gay/bi student employees to watch a gay themed film on a rainy day, NB: The film was the 15 Certificate comedy, “The Birdcage”, starring Gene Hackman & Robin Williams.
...Cornwall police considered this to be “SEXUAL GROOMING”.
# When a 16yr old ‘out’ gay youth (S. Read) choose a ‘Secret Santa’ gift of a pair of Tesco Christmas underpants & a small rubber novelty willy key ring for his 17yr old bisexual closet boyfriend (D. Tressider).
...Cornwall Police considered this to be “SEXUAL GROOMING”.
# When a woman spread rumours (T. Tressider) that a gay man had HIV/AIDS (he did not and had to prove it with a letter from the GU Clinic) & screamed homophobic abuse at him in the streets in front of a witness. Her son later confided that his mother conspired with another over a false allegation against a gay man.
Cornwall police (Inspector Bolt, previously of Helston) stated in 'writing' this was NOT (HOMOPHOBIC) harassment. (established by IPCC)
This is merely the tip of the iceberg of reported but un-investigated homophobic police incidents against lgbt persons in Cornwall, UK. A protracted four-year period of conflict followed between Lidbury and the Cornwall police who raided his home in Nov 2004, arresting him & seizing his computer.
The four year vendetta & abuses by Cornwall police is still continuing unabated against Mr Lidbury in 2009
...continued in next posting
"I have every sympathy for those falsely accused & who endure the commonplace practise of police abuse & intimidation as a result. This is my story to date "
Malcolm Lidbury: - Gay Equality & HIV/AIDS Campaigner, Artist, Writer, Sculptor.
Born in Barnet Middlesex, 1959, Malcolm was the younger of two sons. He grew up in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, going to Mount Grace Comprehensive School. He moved to the County of Cornwall in 1977, worked as a herdsman, antique restorer and at Mount Wellington Mine, one of the last working tin mines in Cornwall. He served six months in prison in 1988. He has been married once and divorced.
1989 he came ‘out’ as a gay man. He was founder, publisher, & editor of the ‘Independent Cornish Triangle’ 1992-1994, a local LGBT newsletter in rural Cornwall, UK with both male & female readership, it had over 1,000 subscribers.
Tim Teeman, former editor of the National Pink Paper wrote of Lidbury in 1997 as:- “Malcolm is more than just an effective campaigner. He is also an extremely brave and forthright one. He is the most public face of homosexuality in the region. This is a tough position for anyone to hold. Not only must he face the prejudice of narrow minded heterosexuals, he must also combat fear and ignorance on the part of gays in Cornwall, who would prefer certain matters to remain private and not discussed.”
In May 1994 Lidbury organised the first ever Gay PRIDE gathering in Cornwall, an evening in support of the London PRIDE Trust. Attended by Teddy Witherington, London Pride Trust Director, Adam Jeanes London Pride Chair, & ‘Yvette’ of Love Muscle.
In August 1994 Lidbury’s partner, Andrew Roger Smith was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. The couple fought a public battle against prejudice and discrimination. Their home subjected to dog excrement attack, graffiti, they received hate mail and death threats, local youths ‘stoned’ Andrew, after he had gone blind as a result of an HIV/AIDS related symptomatic condition. This was reported to Cornwall police, police reaction
Police Quote "Your gay and have HIV/AIDS, what do you expect?"
Cornwall police did nothing to assist. The couple slept with pre-prepared petrol bombs on their window sile, least they needed to defend their home in which Andrew was blind.
The couple won an Ombudsman enquiry & compensation against Kerrier District Council for maladministration for failing to comply with housing benefit regulations to Andrew, who was gay & terminally ill.
In May 1995, Gay Times Magazine named Lidbury in the 200th celebratory edition as one of the top 200 gay people in Britain for contribution to gay community, equality & HIV/AIDS campaigning and awareness in Cornwall.
Lidbury was a trustee of the HIV/AIDS Cornwall Aids Council, trustee for the discretionary HIV/AIDS Sprocket Trust and gay men’s voluntary support worker for the Truro City Hospital GU Clinic.Lidbury organised and ran an LGBT supper group, along with a midweek lgbt social group & a summer weekend tea garden throughout 2003-05.
He organised the only gay rally in Cornwall on equalising of the age of consent, which featured in the CH4 television documentary "Age of Dissent", produced by Will Parry, one of the young men who took Britain to the European Courts over the age of consent, leading to the equality of consent. Lidbury jokes that Will left Cornish pasty crumbs all over his front room carpet.
Lidbury was the LGBT STONEWALL Equality 2000 representative for the Falmouth/Camborne constituency.In April 1996, Malcolm and Andrew publicly contributed taking part visibly in an HIV/AIDS documentary made by Westcountry television ‘Days of Judgment’ about HIV/AIDS in the south west of England at a time when it was publicly dangerous to be open with both ones gay sexuality and his partners HIV/AIDS status in Cornwall.
3rd Oct 1997, readership of the National LGBT newspaper Pink Paper voted Lidbury as No. 119 of the 500 people who had historically had the greatest influence upon gay life in Britain.
In Nov 1996, Lidbury whilst taking part in a live television studio debate as invited guest speaker on LGBT issues, he received on behalf of two Spanish gay men an apology on Westcountry television from the English Tourist Board, WestCountry & Cornish tourist board for homophobic prejudicial breaches of the British tourist board ‘pink’ book of rules.
In 1997, following the death of Andrew Roger Smith, Lidbury posthumously won on behalf of his former partner a public apology from Cornwall County Council for adverse treatment and failure to deliver statutory care to Andrew as an HIV/AIDS sufferer.
Lidbury was a founder member of the Cornwall & Isles of Scillies Health Authority Gay Men’s Health steering group and instrumental in creation of the Cornwall Gay Men’s Health Project in 1997. Now known as Healthy Gay Cornwall
Unfortunately the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Health Authority took the attitude ALL gay men were potential criminals and put the Criminal Probation Service in charge of administering the Cornwall Gay Mens Health Project.
As a result this ostracised & excluded many informed gay men from the Cornwall gay health project, including Mr Lidbury who resigned in disgust.
He has been subsequently barred from all access to gay health care via the Cornwall gay health project ever since
Ironically, Lidbury was personally responsible for writing a damning and widely circulated report on HIV/AIDS:- "Implication for Cornwall".
The report sponsored by the National Gay Business Assoc. The C.A.R.A Trust, The Life Benefits Resource Foundation, Ivan Massow Associates, Gay West Lesbian & Gay Society, Bristol, Body Positive Somerset, The Holistic Therapy Centre Plymouth & The Sprocket HIV/AIDS Trust.
Lidbury attended in 1996 as an independent delegate at Health Authority conferences in Plymouth & Salisbury and he was instrumental in obtaining the original increase in funding for HIV preventative project for gay men in Cornwall.
In Oct 1997, he made and won an Advertising Standards Authority complaint against a local business, ‘Trago Mills’. The Trago millionaire owner Mike Robinson had run adverts in local Cornish newspapers advocating “the castration of gay men”.
In 1997 following further harassment from Cornish authorities Lidbury attempted suicide, he withdrew from active contribution to gay equality and HIV/AIDS campaigning.
In 2004, the LGBT Intercom Trust asked Lidbury to assist with a forum on Cornwall LGBT community opinion of the Criminal Justice Service as part of research for the Lord Justice Kay award 2005.
The original location for the lgbt meeting was cancelled in part due to the conduct and actions of Helston police officer DC woods (thankfully retired) against Mr Lidbury.
Valuable insight into Cornwall police thinking & attitudes against gay persons between 2004-07. DC Magnus Scott has much to answer for his instigation of abuses against gay people in Cornwall carried out by the Cornwall police
# When a gay employer enabled 16/17yr old student gay/bi employees to attend a GU Clinic in work time to receive professional sexual health advice & inoculations against Hepatitis
…Cornwall police considered this to be an offence of ‘SEXUAL GROOMING”
# When a gay employer allowed 16/17yr old gay/bi student employees to watch a gay themed film on a rainy day, NB: The film was the 15 Certificate comedy, “The Birdcage”, starring Gene Hackman & Robin Williams.
...Cornwall police considered this to be “SEXUAL GROOMING”.
# When a 16yr old ‘out’ gay youth (S. Read) choose a ‘Secret Santa’ gift of a pair of Tesco Christmas underpants & a small rubber novelty willy key ring for his 17yr old bisexual closet boyfriend (D. Tressider).
...Cornwall Police considered this to be “SEXUAL GROOMING”.
# When a woman spread rumours (T. Tressider) that a gay man had HIV/AIDS (he did not and had to prove it with a letter from the GU Clinic) & screamed homophobic abuse at him in the streets in front of a witness. Her son later confided that his mother conspired with another over a false allegation against a gay man.
Cornwall police (Inspector Bolt, previously of Helston) stated in 'writing' this was NOT (HOMOPHOBIC) harassment. (established by IPCC)
This is merely the tip of the iceberg of reported but un-investigated homophobic police incidents against lgbt persons in Cornwall, UK. A protracted four-year period of conflict followed between Lidbury and the Cornwall police who raided his home in Nov 2004, arresting him & seizing his computer.
The four year vendetta & abuses by Cornwall police is still continuing unabated against Mr Lidbury in 2009
...continued in next posting
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