Ending: Call for Presentations
Calls for presentations for the Popular LGBT History Festival 2016 are invited before the 30th of June 2015.
The Festival hubs will be in Shrewsbury, York, Bristol, Manchester and London.
Calls for presentations for the Popular LGBT History Festival 2016 are invited before the 30th of June 2015.
The Festival hubs will be in Shrewsbury, York, Bristol, Manchester and London.
LGBT History Month Chair Sue Sanders is now an Emeritus Professor thanks to The Harvey Milk Institute. The lifelong equalities campaigner was visibly delighted as… Read More »Stuart Milk Hands Honorary Professorship to Sue Sanders at Historic Event
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.
A world-first popular festival, celebrating three centuries of lgbt history, run entirely by volunteers. Trailblazing campaigners, eminent scholars, and pioneering performers, join forces to share… Read More »The First National Festival of LGBT History
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