12th – 14th February 2016 – put the dates in your diaries and start planning your weekend. You will have opportunities to listen to – and speak… Read More »Shrewsbury – Midlands Hub on target for a great weekend
Schools OUT UK is delighted to announce the Call for History & Archival Presentations for the 2nd National Festival of LGBT History to be celebrated five Regional Hub’s every Weekend in LGBT HM (February) in 2016.
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!
