Speaker Wanted for Dept of International Trade 14th February 2019
We are having a reception to celebrate LGBT+ history month on the afternoon of Thursday 14th February and we’re currently trying to find a speaker
We are having a reception to celebrate LGBT+ history month on the afternoon of Thursday 14th February and we’re currently trying to find a speaker
Inkbrew Productions is thrilled to present: The Adhesion of Love as the 2019 national heritage premiere for LGBT History Month. Touring venues in Lancashire, Manchester… Read More »LGBT History Month Premieres New Play On How A Man From Bolton met Queer Literary Hero Walt Whitman
My subject for LGBT History Month 2019 is Mary McIntosh 1936-2013 who was indisputably Britain’s leading feminist. McIntosh was educated at High Wycombe School and St Anne’s College, Oxford, where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics. After graduating in 1958 she moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked as a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Sociology Department, out of which grew her interest in criminology.
We know a fair bit about what happened to gay men in the English mental health system. For example, the fact that some men received ‘aversion therapy’ (see, for example, Curing Queers by Tommy Dickenson). But what happened to Lesbians? We have been exploring LGBT; women’s; and mental health archives to find out what happened to same-sex attracted women in the mental health system in England. As a result of our research, we could offer talks on the following topics:
The legendary Stuart Milk , Human Rights Campaigner, founder of The Harvey Milk Institute and nephew of Harvey Milk, will be in the UK on… Read More »Stuart Milk to Visit UK for History Month
The Launch of LGBT History Month 2019 is ready to rolll and this year we’re twinning with Queer Beyond London to make it a really special… Read More »LGBT History Month 2019 to Launch with Queer Beyond London
The Gay Times Lifetime Achievement Award has gone to Sir Ian McKellen, one of the first patrons of LGBT History Month. The award, which was… Read More »LGBT History Month Patron Sir Ian McKellen Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Writing Festival Theatre: Living Histories Cymru Jane Hoy reflects on how she and her partner, Helen Sandler, turned two local women who had become hidden… Read More »Jane Hoy & Helen Sandler – Writing Festival Theatre
LGBT History Month has been shortlisted for the Gay Times Community Champions Award. Results will be announced at the Awards ceremony to be held at… Read More »LGBT History Month Shortlisted for Gay Times Award
Lindsay Kemp, performer and choreographer, born 3 May 1938; died 24 August 2018 Read The Guardian Obituary here