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Schools OUT UK Chair Sue Sanders wins in the 13-16 age category for ‘Have Pride’ which she edited with Stella Caldwell The School Library Association

WHAT ARE PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND WHY DO THEY MATTER? In English, whether we realize it or not, people frequently refer to us using pronouns when speakin

By Sarah Cosgriff, Project Worker for Schools OUT UK Credit: Tom Morris, Wikimedia Commons What is Ace Week? Ace Week is an international campaign ded

Here we are at the beginning of Hate crime Awareness week, twenty-two years on from The MacPherson Report, a ground breaking report into the murder of

Introduction to the Study of Black History, Politics, Sociology, Psychology, Science, Art, Music and Religion Starting January 2022 Introduction to Bl

Archive issues call-out for photos of the UK’s first National Pride in Huddersfield in 1981 The UK’s first ever national Pride took place in Huddersfi

Olly says: Can you believe this is actually happening? Because I can’t! Come and join me and my co-authors at the first EVER Pop’n’Olly Pop-Up Shop! D

The LGBTQ+ community faces significant disparities in healthcare access and dispensation at practically every level and in every area of specializatio

23 Aug 2021 — 28 Aug 2021 Queering the North The OUTing the Past International Festival of LGBT+ History (est. Manchester in 2005) has teamed up with

Terry Reed OBE, JP, BA (Hons), MCSP, SRP, Grad. Dip. Phys. On 20th June, 2021, Terry Reed finally lost her long battle with Cancer and we, GIRES, and

This year we are organising again #WorkPride, a free for all, 5-day pride conference to learn and celebrate. We (and the LGBTQ+ community) would be ve

As the 2021 Rainbow Europe Map reveals widespread and almost complete stagnation on human rights of LGBTI people, we are at a juncture when government

Thank you for supporting Lesbian Visibility Week 2021!  Week Information This years Lesbian Visibility Week takes place on 26th April – 2nd May 2021.

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive Celebrating GRT Diversity Available from 1st February 2021 on the RCAC website: http://www.rom

The Diversity Roundtable March 1st  2021  Dear Secretary of State,  We are writing to you publicly as The Diversity Roundtable, a collective of profes

A Community Challenged LGBT+ History Month 2021 Sam Bennett, Features Editor Fyne Times Magazine In 2020 and 2021, we’ve had the utmost sympathy for t

It’s LGBTQ+ history week on HistoryExtra. Every day this week, we’ll be releasing new articles and podcasts about LGBTQ+ history – from a panel discus

(from the BBC News site) Ex-military personnel dismissed from the armed forces because of their sexuality can now reclaim lost medals. Under a new sch

For the first time, The BBC is making a conscious effort to support and highlight LGBT+ History Month. Items have been posted on the main website, alo

Catalyst Arts February-March 2021  Publication launch summer 2021(tbc)  Day Magee, Jennifer Mehigan, Padraig Regan, Yarli Allison, Richard Martin, Cla

The government’s recent decision to cut anti-LGBT+ bullying programmes — despite 46% of students not feeling safe at school — is a “huge mistake”, wri

By Ian Temple Russell T. Davies’ new five-part series It’s A Sin on Channel 4 has floored me. Not only does it portray London in the early 1980s for a

This show went out on Wednesday 3rd February 2021 @sohoradio at 1 pm (GMT): The #LGBT+History Month Hour Clare Lynch (@clarelynchred) and Philip Baldw

East London-based music charity Sound Connections funded Alexander Pullinger (he/him) to write an article during lockdown, about a pressing issue with

FREE RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS, PARENTS, CARERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS PUT LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH FIRMLY ON THE CURRICULUM Educational digital downloads availa

From SQS, a Finnish LGBT+ Magazine. This issue features this piece from Schools OUT UK Chair Sue Sanders. Patron Dan Vo discusses “The Compassionate W

This event has ended. Our YouTube link to the speakers is here. unorthodox /ʌnˈɔːθədɒks/ contrary to what is usual, traditional, or accepted. Saturday

Our thanks to GALOP for their help in completing this document December 2020 Schools OUT UK submission to the Law Commission on hate crime 1 Schools O

from Labour Hub The first meeting of the Gay Liberation Front was held 50 years ago this month.  Jeff Evans reflects on the long struggle for LGBTQ+ r

Join us in association with The British Library for the launch of LGBT+ History Month 2021 Book Here This is an online event. Bookers will be sent a l