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 Luna
• Join us for a walking tour of the city's queer sites with Kit Heyam
• Interview with one of the last surviving members of the Trans group of the Gay Liberation Front, Roz Kaveney
• End 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-ever launchpad project, Trans+ History Week. Every Monday, for the coming weeks right up to and through Pride season - we’ll be bringing you a new episode from a budding Trans+ audio professional whom we’ve paid, published and mentored to make you a beautifully crafted story about Trans+ history. 

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