The Third ‘What is & How to Do LGBT History?’ Conference Manchester: Friday 26 to Sunday 28 February 2016 The third ‘What is & How… Read More »Academic Call for Papers for the Third "What is & How to Do LGBT History: Methods, Subjects and Approaches"
Over the festival weekend, I’m launching Amiable Warriors, the history of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). Founded in 1964 as the North West local committee of the Homosexual Law Reform Society, CHE mutated over the next few years into the largest LGBT organisation this country has ever known.
American LGBT history has a wealth of cinematic output: from the classic Paris Is Burning (1991) to Milk (2008) and Dallas Buyer’s Club (2013). On our side of the Atlantic, what film representations are there of LGBT activist history?
At the People’s History Museum we have a number of collections of LGBT material, including banners, badges, posters and archives of organisations such as Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.
How can we all make the world more equal for LGBT people? “Hope will never be silent”, said iconic American politician Harvey Milk, who was… Read More »FROM THE CASTRO TO SECTION 28: HARVEY MILK, SCHOOLS OUT UK, AND FORTY YEARS OF EDUCATING OUT PREJUDICE
Do you know what a ‘pose plastique’ is? It’s got nothing to do with rubber.The First National Festival of LGBT History invites you to a… Read More »A VERY VICTORIAN PUB QUIZ
Man of the moment, Russell T Davies, writer of Cucumber, Queer as Folk and Doctor Who has been announced as a patron of A Very… Read More »RUSSELL T DAVIES ANNOUNCED AS PATRON OF ‘A VERY VICTORIAN SCANDAL’
It was George Santayana who first coined the phrase that “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. As a successful… Read More »DOCUMENTING TRANS HISTORY
Our schedule is nearly completed, venues are booked, and volunteers primed to present three centuries of history for adults and children of all ages. For… Read More »THE FIRST NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LGBT HISTORY IS NOW JUST AROUND THE CORNER!
The LGBT History Festival spurred me into starting a project I’ve been interested in for years. Although I am neither a historian nor a film-maker,… Read More »LONDON REBEL DYKES OF THE 1980S
