June marks the first edition of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month, celebrating the largest Ethnic Minority community in the European Union with over 12 million people. In the UK, Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are recognised ethnic minority communities and number 300,000. They are also the most marginalised and continue to suffer extreme levels of prejudice and discrimination. Find out more here.

Race for Justice is a cross-governmental strategy to combat Hate Crime in our society spear-headed by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform and the Attorney General. By singing the declaration, History Month shows its support to the Attorney General's initiative and marks its will to continue its work to eradicate all forms of hate crime. We invite you and your organisation to join us by also signing the declaration.

London School Celebrates History Month

Stoke Newington School is a non-selective, state school, specialising in Arts, Maths, and Science in the London Borough of Hackney. For the past three years, thanks to one of their openly lesbian teachers' remarkable energy and vision, the school has been celebrating LGBT History Month by integrating it to the curriculum.

An account of this year's celebration of the month, together with pictures is available here.

This website and in particular the blog will still be updated regularly and we hope that you will keep on visiting.

Our forum remains online and you are invited to leave comments and talk to each other, to seek advice on the organising of events, find guests ideas andcontacts, raise topics for discussion, respond to a monthly poll and discuss anything and everything relating to LGBT History Month, its events and the people and issues it raises.