LGBT History Month Events

The core of LGBT History month is the massive range of events which take place across the country every February. The LGBT History Month website -  legbthistorymonth.org.uk – contains over 1000 events that take place across the country. So listing them all would be quite a job! Instead, here is a selection of the events [...]

Britain’s Gay Footballers and Reading Pride

At 9pm tonight (Monday 30th January 2012), BBC3 will screen a documentary entitled “Britain’s Gay Footballers”; Amal Fashanu, niece of Justin Fashanu, the only ever openly gay professional footballer, attempts to discover why not a single one of Britain’s 5000 professional footballers is openly gay, including talking to Max Clifford who has helped several footballers [...]

Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year. It’s a time for us to pause to remember the millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed beyond recognition during the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur. On HMD we ask you [...]

Welsh Dignitaries Make LGBT History

For the first time in Wales, leading dignitaries will declare their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people at the opening event of LGBT History Month Cymru 2012. Every February the contribution that LGBT people have made to history will be acknowledged by a series of celebrations throughout Britain. In only its second [...]

Canadian Minister calls for gay rights across the commonwealth

The Foreign Affairs Minister for Canada, John Baird, spoke strongly last night about the need to unify the Commonwealth’s core values when it comes to LGBT issues. Speaking to an audience in London, Baird said that Canada would not stand by its Commonwealth cousins who still criminalise homosexual acts and limit personal freedom. “Dozens of [...]

GLAAD Announces Nominees For 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, announced the nominees for its 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards.   By recognizing and honoring media for outstanding images of the LGBT community, the GLAAD Media Awards serve as a benchmark for the media [...]

The not to be missed LGBT education conference of the year

As always the Schools OUT Conference will be held on the first Saturday of February 2012. It is entitled: Educating OUT Prejudice through the LGBT Lens. Featuring the Classroom, The Rainbow Project and presenters and speakers from the other protected characteristics, the Conference will be rich in resources and ideas for practitioners in the classroom [...]

GMC lets ‘Gay Cure’ doctor keep his job

The general Medical Council has decided the controversial psychiatrist Dr Paul Miller should not be struck off for providing ‘gay cures’ to patients. Miller was at the centre of controversy last year when gay journalist Patrick Strudwick visited his private clinic in Belfast posing as a gay man seeking to change his sexuality. His experiences [...]

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Concert to celebrate LGBT History Month

There will be a special concert to celebrate LGBT History month 2012 Friday 24 February as Stoke Newington School. The ‘Educate and celebrate showcase’ will be fun, loud and proud with performances and presentations by SNS students and guests from the London Gay Men’s Chorus, the L Project, Trans Theatre Company and celebrities. The event [...]

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Schools OUT Conference

Schools Out conference theme: Educating out prejudice through the LGBT lens This year’s Schools Out conference will focus on using education to counter prejudice. Dozens of teachers, students, policymakers and activists will gather at the Drill Hall theatre in London from 09:30 – 6:00 on Sat 4 Feb. Participants will explore the Schools Out Classroom [...]

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Robson denies gay rights hairband statement

Young British tennis star Laura Robson has denied that she wore a rainbow coloured hairband onto court at the Australian Open yesterday to make a pro-LGBT statement. The 18 year old from London was unaware that there was a call to take rainbow flags onto the court after the player who the arena is named [...]

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HRW send letter to Swedish PM

Human Rights Watch has sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Sweden after the Government failed to overturn an archaic law which states individuals who wish to change their legal gender must also be sterilised. The letter reads… New York, January 14, 2012 Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt c/o Roberta Alenius Rosenbad 4 SE-103 33Stockholm, [...]

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Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma

24 Mar-18 Nov 2012 Free entry Inspired by 1950s design and combining Alan Turing’s notes with museum objects, this exhibition [...]

Stephen Green welcomes Tesco share slump, but where is his beard?

By Natalie Thorne Leader of the notorious Christian Voice has come back from the wilderness to rant about Tesco and [...]

Hampshire Constabulary remains UK’s top police force for lesbian, gay and bisexual people

Hampshire Constabulary has maintained its place as the UK’s top police force for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people. The constabulary came 14th [...]

Ernst & Young tops Stonewall’s 2012 list

Stonewall today publishes its Top 100 Employers 2012, showcasing Britain’s best employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual staff. Ernst & [...]

Matthew Bournes’s Nutcracker!

One of the most popular dance productions ever staged in the UK, Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! visits the New Theatre Oxford [...]

You Can Foster

What is fostering? Fostering is looking after children who cannot live at home with their parents. The children and young [...]