Tributes have been paid to a county LGBT rights campaigner who was the first in Shropshire to enter into a civil partnership.
'Geoff was a warrior for all subjugated people' – tributes to Shropshire LGBT campaigner who was on first ever London Pride March
Shropshire's deputy coroner Heath Westerman ruled last week that Mr Hardy had taken his own life at the age of 73. That came after a battle with mental illness, brought on by complications from treatment for cancer. They were the first couple in the county to have a civil partnership, signed at Shrewsbury Register Office, and Mr Roscoe explained:"It was at 8am on December 21, 2005. That was significant because it was the first point exactly when the law allowed us to do it."
Mr Roscoe spoke of the importance of the festival, and how it provided a platform for LGBT cinema, which otherwise did not exist in Shropshire.
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