April Ashley's Funeral

April Ashley’s Funeral

April requested no flowers for her funeral but that a donation be made in her name to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital who supported her so much as a child. Again you can do so by following the link below. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aprilashleymbe

April Ashley exhibition attracts 930,000 visitors

After 17 months and 930,000 visitors the ground-breaking exhibition April Ashley; portrait of a lady, about the life of the Trans icon, model and actress will officially closed on Sunday March 1st at the Museum of Liverpool. Commenting on the popularity of her exhibition and its closure April Ashley said; “It has made me very…

Training at the museum

Saturday morning 9am. No rest for the wicked the saying goes but this morning it was Sister Maria Renate and Anthony Griffin who had an early start as they ran a trangender equality briefing for the staff at the Museum of Liverpool. All the participants were really interested to hear about the April Ashley exhibition…

Community involvement

Over the past year we have promoted the project to thousands of members of the trans* community at group meetings in north Wales and Manchester and at the Sparkle celebration. We have shared some of April’s personal photographs, talked about her life and listened to reminiscences and captured oral histories. A lot of people remember…