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LGBT History Month

Amore Love – Virtual Speed Dating Event, Black Queer Men’s 40+ Edition

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Black Queer Mxn’s Edition 40+

Open to Cis/Trans/Nonbinary | Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual and Asexual 40+ MXN ONLY.

Venue: Virtual via Zoom Dating Pool: Worldwide

Date: Sunday 21st February 2021 at 6.30pm GMT UK TIME(last entry 6.40pm GMT)

Dress code: Smart casual

About Amore Love

Our goal is to be the driving force behind individuals experiencing real compatibility. We want to take anyone looking for love on a journey to experience instant attraction and enhance their dating confidence.

We bring you the virtual convenience of online dating and the personal connections of real life encounters.

The event is open to LGBTIQ+ people of colour and queer community allies. This is one of our three quarterly editions (including Black Queer Women’s and Black Trans and Nonbinary Edition) aimed at creating safe spaces within each dating pool.

Tickets options

Free of charge

Please email events@livingfreeuk.org if you have further questions.

Disclaimer

You must be over 40 to participate

Book now as the virtual event has a limited capacity

NEVER BLEND IN: Stories of LGBTQ+ Resilience and Empowerment

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NEVER BLEND IN: VOICES OF OUR LGBTQ+ ROLE MODELS
Stories of Resilience and Empowerment
David Equality Hull-Watters

Inclusion and Wellbeing Consultant, David E. Hull-Watters has spent the past decade interviewing numerous LGBTQ+ role models from education, entertainment, law enforcement, medical and emergency services, politics, religion and sports for his book, NEVER BLEND IN.

In this relaxed, accessible, interactive presentation, he shares selected extracts, including original and insightful interviews with Alan Cumming OBE, Stephen Fry, Anthony Rapp, Heather Matarazzo, Daniel Newman, Adele Anderson, John Amaechi, Clare Summerskill; key equality advocates, educators, and influencers of policy Sue Sanders, Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah (UK Black Pride), Jason Jones, Maurice Tomlinson, Rabbi Denise Eger, Lt. Dan Choi, veteran human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell; filmmakers Parvez Sharma and Mobeen Azhar; transgender trailblazers David E. Weekley, Michael Eric Brown, Caroline Paige, and Jamison Green, amongst many others.

The over-arching theme of this presentation is the importance of overcoming limiting labels and the benefits of seeing positive role models who can inspire us to fulfil our potential, making the session accessible to all.

David interweaves these interview extracts with an exploration of how life need not be a self-fulfilling prophecy, that our “truth” is shaped through our relationships, our environment, and our experiences, and of how we can change our perceptions, heighten our self-esteem, and move toward personal and professional goals with clear vision and purpose.

More information about David E. Hull-Watters:

NEVER BLEND IN: www.inclusionconsultant.co.uk/neverblendin
Inclusion and Wellbeing Consultant: www.inclusionconsultant.co.uk/about-us
Give ‘em Hope Campaign Founder and Coordinator: www.inclusionconsultant.co.uk/the-give-em-hope-campaign
Equal Love UK Campaign: www.equallove.co.uk

LGBT+ History Month Film Festival – Mind & Soul Watch Party

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Join us for a special watch party for our LGBT+ History Month Film Festival! For the second year running Lesflicks is bringing you another fantastic LGBT+ History Month programme aimed at increasing the knowledge of, and access to lesbian and bisexual film.

This years theme is Mind, Body & Soul, and we have two 50-60 minute programmes of short films to engage, entertain and inspire our community.

MIND & SOUL WATCH PARTY
This watch party is for our Mind & Soul selection of short films, programmed to inspire and nourish through short tales of power, perseverance and poetry.
Featuring the shorts:
ROADKILL
HER & HER
QUEER FANTASY
ACROSS THE GRID
CHAMPION

Access to the two film programmes will be made available between 1 February and 28 February 2021 via the LesflicksVOD platform. Registration is essential!

Incite Poetry LGBT History Month Special

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Join Incite! online for a LGBT+ History Month Special featuring Joelle Taylor. The monthly forum+ spoken word event is hosted by performance poet Hannah Chutzpah!

Take a seat in the audience at London’s longest running LGBTQ+ poetry event or reserve an open mic slot (5 minutes max) to share your own poetry, music, stand up, or whatever else moves you! Incite is free to join and is for ages 18 and above.

Online via Zoom: For a link to Incite please email info@forumplus.org.uk & please visit the event page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/751868135725356

LGBT+ History Month Film Festival – Mind & Body Watch Party

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Join us for a special watch party for our LGBT+ History Month Film Festival! For the second year running Lesflicks is bringing you another fantastic LGBT+ History Month programme aimed at increasing the knowledge of, and access to lesbian and bisexual film.

This years theme is Mind, Body & Soul, and we have two 50-60 minute programmes of short films to engage, entertain and inspire our community.

MIND & BODY WATCH PARTY
This watch party is for our Mind & Body selection of short films which explore themes of consent, resistance and queer history to engage and galvanize the mind and body.

Featuring the shorts:
INVISIBLE WYOMING
RHUBARB
GAY AS IN HAPPY
ON A PATH

Access to the two film programmes will be made available between 1 February and 28 February 2021 via the LesflicksVOD platform. Registration is essential!

Queer Politics & Histories of Kinks – Workshop

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The Courtauld Institute of Art LGBTQ+ Society presents…
‘Queer Politics & Histories of Kinks’ @ 6-7.30PM on Monday 15th February
[email lgbtq@courtauld.ac.uk to register your interest and ask for the Zoom link]

This workshop will be led by the Courtauld’s own fabulous LGBTQ+ representative, Paula Onică, who will be helping us unravel the fascinating world of kinks in this semi-casual event. She’ll first walk us through a brief history of kink highlighting some of the problematic aspects of representation and will then invite us to join a roundtable discussion. Join us to debate issues like the politics of kink, the extent of one’s autonomy over one’s body, the need for representation in mainstream media, and (perhaps most importantly in this lockdown) whether modern porn is worth preserving?

Here are a few of Paulă’s words on queerness and kinks – “For some time the LGBTQ+ community overlapped and was synonymous with ‘kink’ in the popular imagination. Today the two are more clearly defined, yet kink is still not a subject the world feels at ease addressing. There is a need for representation and this community deserves recognition as a subculture in its own right. This event is an attempt to open up a conversation around the subject and help us find ways we can comfortably talk about it.”