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Britten-Pears Foundation Won't Erase Gay History

The Britten-Pears foundation is merging with Snape Maltings. As a result, they wanted to change the name to The Benjamin Britten Foundation. Benjamin Britten was a well known composer/musician in the UK who had a lifelong partner, a tenor named Peter Pears. If the name change had happened it would have meant erasing their lifelong same sex relationship, not to mention erasing Pears altogether. Thanks to an online petition, the name will remain t...