Huge thanks to all our supporters & donors – You make it possible. Celebrate with us at the Equality Ball on 26 November in London … Read More »Peter Tatchell Foundation celebrates 5 years of human rights work
In February of 2015 we held the first National Festival of LGBT History and the second What is LGBT History and How to Do It… Read More »An introduction to National LGBT History Festival – Sue Sanders' introduction
The Lesbian & Gay Foundation (LGF) are organising a tribute and celebration in honour of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the modern gay… Read More »Manchester Celebrates 50 Years of Homosexual History
Cambridge is the latest city to start an oral history project; thanks to SexYOUality. The LGBT support and social group used the opportunity on its… Read More »Cambridge Talks
Nearly half of Britain’s lesbian and gay engineers are not out at work, according to new research. While 45.2% are out at work, 41.8% remain… Read More »Nearly Half of Our Engineers are in the Closet
A video unearthed from the vaults shows the reciprocal support between LGB campaigners and the Dulais miners in the strike of 1884-5. The lesbian and… Read More »1985 Film on YouTube Shows LGB Solidarity with The Miners
Groundbreaking play ‘A Taste Of Honey’ will be playing at the National Theatre during LGBT History Month (from 10th February). ‘Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was nineteen, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s.
Cameroon: Gay man who was jailed for sending affectionate text message dies at 34 – A gay man in Cameroon who was jailed for sending a text message to another man, saying “I’m very much in love with you,” has died.Roger Jean-Claude Mbede, 34, passed away on Friday roughly one month after his family removed him from the hospital where he had been seeking treatment for a hernia. Mr Mbede was arrested in March 2011 in connection with the text message and received a three-year sentence.
BrainPickings recently highlighted the first kiss in cinema history. That takes you back to 1896, to a film brought to you by Thomas Edison. Now we… Read More »First Male Same-Sex Kiss: 1927
Norwich pub landlords beaten and abused by anti-gay mob – A gay couple who run a pub in Norwich said they were punched and kicked by a gang of 15 men recently, in an abuse they have called a homophobic hate crime.
