Gallery 1420: 9th – 28th June 2025
In collaboration with LGBT Youth Scotland we are delighted to be hosting “Stitched with Pride” an exhibition led and created by young LGBTQ+ people living in the Borders. This exhibition has provided an opportunity for them to share their diverse personal experiences of what their life is like in Scotland today and their connection with Scotland’s wider history.
The exhibition will complement its setting within the Great Tapestry of Scotland and showcase imagined addition to the Great Tapestry, featuring stories from LGBTQ+ people all over Scotland, flags and banners from pride marches, quilts created by youth groups and more.
This exhibition is part of a 3-year social history project, (Un)Seen, (Un)Heard, run by LGBT Youth Scotland and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to create a first of its kind archive of young LGBTQ+ people’s voices. This archive will live at the National Library of Scotland, and aims to increase visibility and awareness across Scotland, as well as ensuring that young people’s voices are preserved for future generations and celebrated across Scotland today. These stories will also be held by the National Library of Scotland and at local museums and archives nation-wide.
LGBTQ+ history is often underrepresented and overlooked in traditional narratives of Scottish history, and so this project is a way for young people to tell their stories in their own way and ensure their voices become part of Scotland’s national history.
