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This is how Pride Activists were treated in the Ukraine

Posted on: May 22nd, 2012 by History Month
This happened in Europe in 2012. Following the unexpected last minute abandonment of Pride Kiev, Pride Solidarity invite you to sign this petition To read more, go here

E-Petition Calls for Turing Pardon

Posted on: May 22nd, 2012 by History Month
Following a C4 drama-doc on the circumstances of the death of the great twentieth century mathematician Alan Turing – and timed to coincide with the centenary of the great man in 2012 – a new e-petition has been launched to grant him a posthumous pardon. The Channel 4 programme,...

Proud Rhinos to celebrate sporting equality

Posted on: May 15th, 2012 by History Month
World Club champions Leeds Rhinos are dedicating their Stobart Super League Round 24 fixture against Widnes Vikings on Friday August 10 to celebrating lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender equality. The club are inviting fans to join them in their celebrations by designing a special commemorative shirt which will be...

Britain is the best place to be LGBT: ILGA

Posted on: May 15th, 2012 by History Month
The new international study of LGBT rights across Europe is now available. Covering very nation state in the continent, the comprehensive report reports the similarities and differences socially and legally between them. The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) describes general changes in Europe and takes every country. Its...

Church: We support long term same-sex relationships – but not marriage (yet)

Posted on: March 31st, 2012 by History Month
The Anglican Church’s bench of Bishops - the whole body of English prelates assembled in council – have stated their current stance on same-sex unions. It said it: “Abides by the Christian doctrine of marriage as the union of one man with one woman freely entered into for life. Acknowledges that...

Asylum Seekers’ Update

Posted on: March 14th, 2012 by History Month
On International Women’s Day we got the fantastic news that Amanpreet Kaur was released from detention in Yarl’s Wood IRC.  Ms Kaur is a lesbian woman who was detained for three months and twice threatened with imminent removal when the authorities refused to let her make an asylum claim...

TV presenter James May to unveil “The Life and Works of Alan Turing” exhibition at Bletchley Park

Posted on: March 3rd, 2012 by History Month
Fascinating and poignant new artefacts are to be revealed for the very first time, and in the presence of Alan Turing’s family, on Monday 5 March at the unveiling of Bletchley Park’s “The Life and Works of Alan Turing” exhibition. These will include the rebuild of Delilah, a secret...

Football v. Homophobia Feb. 19th

Posted on: February 20th, 2012 by History Month
February the 19th marks the start of a host of Football v. Homophobia events, both in the UK and internationally, to celebrate our community and its achievements through the medium of the national game. Football v. Homophobia day was launched in 2010 by the Justin Campaign to commemorate the...

Netherlands to Introduce Statutory Diversity Training

Posted on: February 19th, 2012 by History Month
The Dutch government has prepared a scheme for compulsory education about LGB and transsexuality at each school; a victory for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. Following a proposal by Van Bijsterveldt, Ministerof Education, Culture and Science (pictured) the Cabinet agreed to the attainment targets for primary and...

UN Chief Speaks out against Prejudice based on gender variance and sexual orientation at African Summit

Posted on: February 8th, 2012 by History Month
At the African Union summit in the first week of February 2012, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon made a brief but noteable mention of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.  Though the portion of the speech dedicated to this topic was only a couple of sentences long, it was...

January 31 2012 Another Landmark in UK History

Posted on: January 31st, 2012 by History Month
The 31st of January 2012 is the day public sector organisations have to publish details of how they are complying with the Public Sector Equality Duty. This means hospitals, large schools and all other establishments within the public sector will have to demonstrate what they are doing to promote equality of opportunity and...

LGBT Sports Timeline

Posted on: January 31st, 2012 by History Month
Please find enclosed the UK LGBT Sports Timeline written by Chris Morgan, Gay Games Ambassador & World Champion Powerlifter, in celebration of UK LGBT History Month 2012. According to Chris: ‘In many ways 2011 was a watershed for gay sports in the UK. LGBT History Month 2012 is once again focused...

Happy Birthday Peter Tatchell

Posted on: January 26th, 2012 by History Month
We at LGBT History Month would all like to wish a happy birthday to Peter Tatchell, who reached 60 on the 25th of January. Peter has risked life and limb as well as enduring horrendous abuse over five decades to win us the freedoms that so many take for...

Ecuador Closes Gay and Lesbian “Conversion” Centres

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by History Month
LGBT campaigners in Ecuador and beyond are celebrating a volte-face by President Rafael Correa, in which he closed down the state’s notorious anti-gay ‘reparative’ centres and made a well-known lesbian campaigner the new minister for Health. Following a world-wide campaign by human rights groups, the reparative therapy centres throughout the South American nation...

Dyke March ends March

Posted on: January 3rd, 2012 by History Month
Lesbians and their friends will be taking to the streets for London’s first Dyke March in decades next year on March 31st; the last day of Women’s History Month The event follows in the tradition of the Dyke Marches held in the US and will be the first that...

Man Who Gained Gay and Lesbian Privacy Rights in US Dies Aged 68

Posted on: December 28th, 2011 by History Month
John G. Lawrence, 68, whose legal case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that granted privacy rights to gay men and lesbians, died Nov. 20 in Houston. He had a heart condition, his partner, Jose Garcia, told the Houston Chronicle. Mr. Lawrence’s case began in 1998 when...

First US Navy Same-Sex Kiss Breaks Old Barrier

Posted on: December 23rd, 2011 by History Month
A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule on Wednesday when two women sailors became the first to share the coveted “first kiss” on the pier after one of them returned from 80 days at sea. Petty Officer 2nd Class...

UN Releases First Report on LGBT Human Rights Abuses

Posted on: December 18th, 2011 by History Month
The first ever United Nations report on the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people details how around the world people are killed or endure hate-motivated violence, torture, detention, criminalization and discrimination in jobs, health care and education because of their real or perceived sexual orientation...

UK publishes its first National Transgender Action plan

Posted on: December 18th, 2011 by History Month
The Government Equalities Office (GEO) has released a document sets out the specific actions for the government of the United Kingdom to advance trans equality. It includes firm commitments to improve the lives of trans people and support businesses and public bodies so they have the right tools to...

Government Launches Competition at LGBT History Month Pre-Launch

Posted on: November 23rd, 2011 by History Month
At the groundbreaking LGBT History Month Pre-Launch, held at the Kia Oval Cricket Ground in Kennington in collaboration with Pride Sports, Lynne Featherstone, Minister for Equalities launched a competition to find a logo for sports clubs, fans and players across the country to mark their support for the campaign. The competition is targeted...

East London pride to Go Ahead

Posted on: September 24th, 2011 by History Month
East London Pride will start today with a parade from the steps of Hackney Town Hall at 1pm, followed by a festival at Oxford House Activists are hoping that the parade and the festival will bring the community together after a difficult year. To read more go here To...

Paragraph 175 on YouTube

Posted on: August 26th, 2011 by History Month
The essential film Paragraph 175, which gathers the personal histories of a number of lesbian and gay survivors of the holocaust, is now available with subtitles on YouTube. Using personal testimonies, the film shows how Berlin was the world’s hub for lesbian and gay liberation before the rise of Naziism, before...

California State Schools to Teach LGBT History

Posted on: July 19th, 2011 by History Month
California has become the first state to mandate gay history lessons in public schools. In public school classrooms across the state students will soon be taught a subject that hasn’t been part of the curriculum before: LGBT history, the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Lorri Jean...

New LGBT Timeline

Posted on: June 16th, 2011 by History Month
Christine Burns and her colleagues at NHS North West have just launched the online version of the LGBT History Timeline after talking to Sue at LGBT History Month. It’s available here. As you’ll see, it has several components. There’s a scrolling timeline that covers more than two millenia. Then...

LGBT History Month Issues Cyrillic Logo as Tribute to Belarussian LGBT Activists

Posted on: February 17th, 2011 by History Month
LGBT History Month is proud to issue a Cyrillic version of the LGBT History Month 2011 logo as a small gesture of our great admiration of Belarussian LGBT activists
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Samuel Steward

Posted on: January 17th, 2011 by History Month
A new book about Samuel Steward, “Secret Historian” by Justin Spring, reveals a little-documented strand of gay life in the middle decades of the 20th century. Read more
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March on Albany

Posted on: January 17th, 2011 by History Month
According to the The Advocate, on March 14th, 1971 between 2,500-3,000 people marched in the American state capital to demand civil rights for homosexuals. Read about it here
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Transout on the streets of London, April 2002

Posted on: January 17th, 2011 by History Month
Sometimes coming home can happen anywhere. It is when you are working together with your community for your community….. Stephen Whittle tells of the day when the community took to one of the smartest streets in London and made its voice heard: On April 16th 2002 around 100 trans...
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The Gender Recognition Act: A personal perspective

Posted on: January 17th, 2011 by History Month
A day in Parliament On the 25th May 2004 I presented myself, along with a friend at the entrance to the House of Commons. After the usual security checks we were ushered inside to be met by my MP’s PA and found ourselves taking tea in one of the...
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Press For Change Petition to 10 Downing Street in Oct 1997

Posted on: January 17th, 2011 by History Month
(written by Christine Burns in November 1997) When a technical glitch on the Australian computer running this service threatened to put UKPFC-News out of action this weekend, it seemed almost fitting in a way. There are times when silence can be deafening; Times when a vacuum can be full...
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Press For Change At Labour Conference 1997

Posted on: January 17th, 2011 by History Month
Press for Change was invited for the first time to take a booth in the exhibition accompanying the first Labour Conference following Tony Blair’s landslide victory. The invitation was sudden, unexpected and practically at the eleventh hour. We had to pay for the stand (about £4,000) and we didn’t...

Alex Carlile’s Private Members Bill proposing means to correct transsexual people’s birth certificates and status

Posted on: January 16th, 2011 by History Month
In 1995/96 Alex Carlile (then Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman) won a place in the ballot for Private Members Bills in Parliament. He chose that as an opportunity to put forward a Bill proposing a means to correct transsexual people’s birth certificates and status. The Bill never really stood...
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ukraine 2 This is how Pride Activists were treated in the Ukraine This happened in Europe in 2012. Following the unexpected last minute abandonment of Pride Kiev, Pride Solidarity invite you...
Turing E-Petition Calls for Turing Pardon Following a C4 drama-doc on the circumstances of the death of the great twentieth century mathematician Alan Turing –...
Ravi Ravi Sentenced After all the brou-ha-ha and the rumours of a decade of detention and deportation; the rejection of the plea-bargaining...
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John Amaechi, former international basketball player, broadcaster and psychologist, Christine Burns, Equality and diversity specialist, podcaster, campaigner, Dr Harry Cocks, social historian and writer, Angela Eagle MP Work and Pensions, Professor Viv Gardner, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford University, Sir Ian McKellen, actor, Cyril Nri, actor, director and writer, Ian Rivers, Professor of Human Development; Subject Leader for Sports Sciences, Brunel University, Professor Sheila Rowbotham, lecturer and campaigner, Labi Siffre, poet, songwriter and singer, Professor Melanie Tebbutt, Director, Manchester Centre for Regional History, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University, Gareth Thomas, rugby international, Jeffrey Weeks, historian, sociologist, author and LGBT activist, Stephen Whittle OBE, Professor of Equalities Law in the School of Law at Manchester Metropolitan University