The #Queer #LGBTQ #History film making record-breaking awards this film season on track 2B most successful ever .Got your tickets?

Liberty -Kath Duncan The true untold story of the struggle for civil rights is on track to be the most successful Independent Queer LGBTQ film ever made, Winning 19 International Film awards via the 10.000 #Global #filmfreeway Film Festival network before its official launch #LGBTHistoryMonth London 12 February 2023: LGBTQ Unbordored International Film Festival ": said

" Exceptional " and awarded it " The best International LGBTQ Documentary ". The 4 Seasons Film Festival in Spain and Argentina Awarded it best " LGBTQ Film Script ".

Royal Society Television & Motion Picture award Uganda.

Uganda a Country in which it is still a crime to be LGBTQ has awarded this film

" Best International Documentary ". Whilst the censor has not stopped #liberty from being the first ever Queer driven film to be officially screened in Iran, China, Turkey, and Egypt.

Liberty in its first weeks of launching through the film festival network in the process of getting a film-TV distribution deal has won more International awards than any other LGBTQ Film already as you can check with a basic google search winning International awards. India. Turkey. Germany. The Netherlands. Italy . The USA. France. Uganda. Malaysia. Argentina. Bolivia. Spain. Greece .

With 104 Film Festival awards shortlisted for the 2023 Film Festival season.

More Awards than " It's a Sin " ' Harvey ": Broke Back Mountain " "Pride" Sadly being only 40 minutes long it is too short to qualify for #bafta or #oscars2023 lists

This film for the first time uses old film newsreels, recreations, and interviews including John White 103 years young, the only man known alive who witnessed activism in Kath Duncan's lifetime, and will attend the London film launch. tells UK Civil rights history from the true LGBTQ Working Class Black perspective as never told before covering Hunger Marches, The General Strike, The Invergordon Mutiny, The Role of the Working Class in the Spanish Civil War, the Anti Fascist Movement, The Importance of The New Cross fire in empower the Black Power movement in Britain, Reclaim Pride fight to end pinkwashing of #pride to the role of activists who fought to expose over 30 years the Blood Contamination scandal that has after years of activist secured a Public inquiry whilst telling at last the role of the LGBTQ and Unions in securing the right to protest and right to free speech won by the first Civil rights case in UK Law

"Duncan ( Kath Duncan ) VS Jones KB ".

The way we live today seems not to have progressed much from the hunger marches and strikes of the 1920s and the 1930s as we appear to have forgotten our working-class history an issue that clearly from this film's success resonates globally. It is a history that is being erased, just as is happening today with the criminalizing of those who make a stand and is leaving in the shadows the huge working-class heroes such as Fred Copeman and Kath Duncan. This is Kath Duncan who would pay the ultimate price for fighting for free speech by giving her life after becoming ill and serving two terms in Holloway Prison.

Why is it that we are taught at school the stories of Kings, Queens, tyrants, and Empires, but the stories of the working class built on the blood, sweat, and activism of ordinary people are excluded? People often gave their lives to fight for what we have today because struggle and battles do get won but the ongoing battle is to keep going on, to not give up, and to follow in the footsteps of those who went before us.?Yet how can we follow those whose battles are never told and whose heroes are always paid little attention?

As a gay man it pains me that we are all aware of the civil rights movements in the USA, India, and South Africa, but how the UK civil rights movement was fought and won is still never taught, not even the first civil rights case in law; Duncan vs Jones KB is not even used as a case study by the legal system, by lawyers seeking a job in civil rights law – how is that possible? In my view, it’s simple: queer working-class heroes who take on the system and win put the fear of god into the establishment as they did in the 1930s when the?Invergordon Mutiny ?brought down a government. Spreading successful working-class history may put ideas in the heads of the masses and god forbid they may realize they can run their own affairs quite well without the need for a political class.

I have spent the past five years trying to do something about this by writing, producing, and directing my latest LGBTQ civil rights working-class history film ‘Liberty’ which launches globally as part of LGBT history month in February 2023. My objective is to tell the stories no one else has, whilst bringing them right up to date to be relevant NOW, when globally 70 plus countries still make it a crime to be LGBTQ, the rise of Fascism sweeps across the world like a virus and the abuse of civil rights is becoming as relevant an issue in Britain and USA?as it is in Iran and China

As I write this, the film which I didn’t expect to reach an audience beyond my usual circle will be screened across five continents in 2023. It will be the first LGBTQ-driven documentary film ever to be screened in Iran, mainland China, and Uganda, countries in which being LGBTQ is still a crime. Iran and China will turn a blind eye to the queer content because a film showing people in the west rising up against the king, parliament and the entire Western system feeds them propaganda with which to say, “You may want rights in Iran or China, but hey ho they are also fighting for change in the West”. I hope my film, by telling the true story of how Kath Duncan and Fred Copeman fought for social justice and rights for workers, the right to free speech, and the right to protest, will put the record straight. And by showing the anti-fascist movement, the Hunger Marches, the Invergordon Mutiny, the importance of the New Cross fire in creating the UK black power movement, and the victims of the present public inquiry into the NHS blood contamination scandal, in which the state murdered its own people to save cash, is able to put right this injustice, to bring these heroes’ names into the public realm and on their backs empower people to make a stand.?

My friend, Canary writer Steve Topple, said when he reviewed my biography of?Kath Duncan, ‘The Last Queen of Scotland’, “The banishing of the mists of time from Kath Duncan’s life could stand as Woolford’s finest achievement “. I’ll take that.?

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Tickets are on sale here for ￡10 for Ray’s Film Launch ?at Hatcham House as part of LGBT History Month, with funds supporting Ray’s work. ‘Liberty’ will be screened as part of the film freeway network art film festivals across the UK and globally from 2023-2024. Direct mail me if Tickets are sold out as we will also be holding this event for PRIDE Month June 2023 dates to be confirmed. and we may add another screening to the 12 Feb Launch later on the same date

Liberty Kath Duncan The Untold true story of the struggle for civil rights – Trailer