“Wear Rainbow Day” – We asked students and staff to wear colours of the rainbow or any other LGBTQIA+ flag on a specific day. Loads of students and staff got involved and we took lots of photos and also managed to get more students to sign up to our LGBTQIA+ club. Badge Making We asked […]
Surrey History Centre in Woking had an exciting and varied programme of activity for LGBT+ History Month and you can see the full list for this year on our Exploring Surrey’s Past website newsflash page https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/lgbt-hm-2022/. This website hosts a vast resource for Surrey’s LGBTQ+ community including biographies, research guides, case studies and community feedback. Di […]
Lesbian icon and author Leslie Cohen has died. Cohen has long been a fixture of the New York City’s LGBTQ+ community. She was one of four women who opened Sahara, a legendary upscale women’s club, in the 1970s, and later worked as a nightclub promoter before attending law school. She and her wife, Beth Suskin, were also […]
Tarlach’s WayI am Brendan Nellis. I was born and bred in Belfast. I still live here. Tarlach was my brother, my confidante and my friend. On 1st April 2020 he died from Covid 19 complications. He was just 57 years old. Tarlach Mac Niallais was born in Belfast in October 1962 into a Catholic family. […]
GAY TIMES is sad to report the death of Chris Graham-Bell, the founder of GAY TIMES Magazine. Chris launched the magazine in 1974 when the rights of gay men and women were still being hard fought for, and in doing that, he played a significant part in getting their voices heard. He was refused a […]
One of the biggest challenges of this unsettling time is the isolation we feel as we’re separated from friends and family, all the people for whom we care most deeply. But just being alone is only part of the difficulty. Our sense of remoteness is intensified by a pall of unease we can’t define: Loss and sorrow are also […]
We are seeking a capable and experienced Youth Work Manager to join our team. This vacancy is for: 30 hours per week 12 months fixed term (with potential to extend the role, funding dependent) at a rate of £31,024.50 pro rata full time equivalent, plus pension contributions. You will be joining a caring and dedicated team, […]
DWe here at Women’s Writes are SO excited to be sitting down Diana Souhami to discuss her fantastic new book No Modernism Without Lesbians. Part of the founding ethos of Women’s Writes was to elevate women’s voices, and in this fantastic book, Diana is doing just that. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. […]
Anchor Hanover is England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for people in later life. This year, to celebrate LGBT+ History month’s theme of Poetry, Prose and Plays, a writing competition was held which was open to both colleagues and residents. Here Anchor Hanover share three of their winning entries. Jay Crowter, a care […]
LGBT History Month is a month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bi and transgender (LGBT+) history and is a means of raising awareness for the issues faced by LGBT+ people. Building Equality have been hosting events, talks and discussions from prominent figures from our industry and beyond, across the whole of February 2020. This includes their […]
