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Welcome to LGBT+ History Month at Consortium!

For LGBT+ History Month we want to celebrate the history of our member organisations. We want to highlight the achievements of the past, as well as plans for the future, and also show how representation of our diverse communities has grown over the years.

If your group has an anniversary, an event or a person you would like to celebrate, or anything else that you feel is relevant, then please let us know

This page will be updated throughout LGBT+ History Month, so please check back soon to see something new!

LGBT+ History Month Blog

Written by Leyla (she/her), Consortium's Equity Fund Project Officer, this Blog focuses on the History of Intersectionality

A poem, by T

A poem, written specially for us on the occasion of LGBT+ History Month, by T from one of our member groups Free2B

Upcoming Events

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1st - 28th February
LGBT+ History Month Events at METRO Charity
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Resources

QTIPOC TON Panel Event

Haringey Vanguard: BME LGBTQ+ History Project

Rainbow Pilgrims

Rainbow Pilgrims is a landmark project that discovers the ‘hidden history’ of LGBTQI migrants in the UK past and present.

PRIDE in Education Classroom Resources

Click here to access taster LGBT+ inclusive lesson plans and assemblies.

Twilight People

Stories of faith and gender beyond the binary.

Rainbow Jews

Celebrating LGBT Jewish History & Heritage in the UK.

Frameline Voices - Pay it No Mind

The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson.

GRT LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive

Romani Cultural & Arts Company.

Collections - Museum of Transology

Showcasing our Members

MindOut

To celebrate #LGBTHM22 we asked some of our member organisations to share their stories from their history. These features include celebrating anniversaries, acknowledging important people who have done incredible work for the LGBT+ sector and highlighting events.

Our first member organisation we are featuring is MindOut, an LGBTQ+ Mental Health Service. Helen Jones (She/her) is the founder and CEO of MindOut, who has worked in mental health advocacy for many years. Helen is passionate about empowerment, peer support and service user participation.

To find out more about MindOut please visit: mindout.org.uk

Schools OUT UK

Schools OUT UK is an education charity that began life as The Gay Teachers Association in 1974. Their overarching goal is to make schools and educational institutions safe spaces for our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans+ (LGBT+) communities as teachers, lecturers and trainers; as pupils and students; as parents; as teaching and learning support staff; as site-officers, catering and cleaning staff; and as headteachers, managers and governors. There is no other organisation that supports such a wide community in attaining such a wide, yet simple overarching goal.

They are the founders of LGBT+ History Month [www.lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk] and the Classroom [www.the-classroom.org.uk] and are affiliated to OUTing the Past [www.outingthepast.com] and Pride in Education [www.prideineducation.co.uk]

London Friend

50 years of LGBTQ+ support

Since 1972, LGBTQ people have been coming together as London Friend to support the health and wellbeing of others within our communities. Most of these were (and still are today) dedicated volunteers, whose actions continue to provide help that is missing from mainstream services, and we’re incredibly proud to be celebrating a phenomenal 50 years of London Friend in 2022.

Find out more: londonfriend.org.uk/londonfriend50

#LondonFriend50

Share your story with us!

Team Recommendations

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speaches by Audre Lorde

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae.

The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye

In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the 'transgender issue' to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society.

Film: Pride (2014)

UK gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s by Hugh Nini

Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950 portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacular photographs taken between the years 1850 and 1950.

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows by Christine Burns

Trans Britain chronicles this journey in the words of those who were there to witness a marginalised community grow into the visible phenomenon we recognise today: activists, film-makers, broadcasters, parents, an actress, a rock musician and a priest, among many others.

Film: Kiss Me (2011)

A young woman engaged to be married finds herself in an affair with her soon-to-be stepmother's lesbian daughter.

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

A brave and intelligent collection of essays on grief, colonial violence, joy, love, and queerness. Likely one of the most beautifully written books you will ever read.

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