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LGBT History Month Pre-Launch for 2013

Posted on: May 2nd, 2012 by History Month
  Mark November the 15th down in your diaries. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) History Month pre-launch is to be held at Bletchley Park this year on that very Thursday.   The event has in the past been held at the Tate Modern, Congress House, The Metropolitan...

Google Gives Bletchley Park 1/2 million

Posted on: December 21st, 2011 by History Month
Google has given £550,000 to the development of Bletchley Park. The money will go towards the match funding that the Bletchley Park Trust needs to unlock a £4.6m grant that the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced in October. The trust is planning a £15m redevelopment of the site, the birthplace...
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London Metropolitan Archives: Flights of Fancy

Posted on: November 24th, 2009 by History Month
>The London Metropolitan Archives will be holding another of their LGBT study days early next month. The arts are powerful. Sometimes they are disturbing, dangerous and real instruments of change. They provide people with ways of making their presence felt, their thoughts known and voices heard. Be inspired and...
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Making a Gay Scene at the V&A

Posted on: November 22nd, 2009 by History Month
>The V&A Museum late opening event on 27 November will have something a little queer about it. That week, Making a Scene will tap the surface of Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans & Queer culture to celebrate making visible what for so long has been hidden. From clandestine liaisons to...
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History of Gay Surrey Enters Surrey History Centre

Posted on: August 4th, 2009 by History Month
>The charity Gay Surrey have deposited their archives with Surrey History Centre in Woking. Gay Surrey started out as a group of friends in 2005. It has now developed into a charity providing help, support and information in and around the Surrey area. Building on the huge success of...
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Anthony Blunt’s Memoir Goes Public

Posted on: July 24th, 2009 by History Month
>25 years after the death of the former Cambridge professor and renowned art historian who was unmasked publicly as a spy by former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the British Library unveiled yesterday a 30,000-word manuscript that amounts to a short account of his life, from birth through...
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Gay Icons at the National Portrait Gallery

Posted on: June 26th, 2009 by History Month
>Will Young and Nelson Mandela will stand side by side in a new exhibition of ‘gay icons’. The singer and the former South African president are among 60 figures chosen for the National Portrait Gallery’s show. Gay Icons explores gay social and cultural history through the unique personal insights...
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LGBTQ Histories at the V&A

Posted on: November 10th, 2008 by History Month
>As part of a new programme the V&A is seeking to unearth previously hidden LGBTQ histories in its collections, researching the objects and their histories that surround them. Equally, these investigations look at the ways in which visitors themselves understand and make sense of these objects on the basis...
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Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life

Posted on: October 17th, 2008 by History Month
> A new exhibitions opened yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery until 1 February 2009. Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 includes over 150 photographs by the celebrated lesbian photographer, encompassing well-known work made on editorial assignment as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends. “I...
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Hadrian’s Life Uncovered in New British Museum Exhibition

Posted on: July 24th, 2008 by History Month
>Think of Roman Emperor Hadrian and the first thing that springs to mind is the wall that bears his name, separating England from the revolting Picts. However, there were many sides to Hadrian, as a new exhibition about his life reveals. As well as being a great leader who...
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Irish Queer Archive Donates Collection’ To the National Library of Ireland

Posted on: June 18th, 2008 by History Month
>The National Lesbian and Gay Federation (NLGF) has formally handed over the Irish Queer Archive (IQA) to the National Library of Ireland (NLI). “The NLGF is delighted to donate the archive to the State”, said Ailbhe Smyth, chair of the NLGF.“We pay immense tribute to the foresight of the...
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Memorial to Gay Victims of Nazis Unveiled in Berlin

Posted on: May 29th, 2008 by History Month 1 Comment
>As announced in the post on the new Magnus Hirshfeld street earlier this month, the first openly gay Mayor of Berlin opened on Tuesday a new memorial in the city to the homosexual victims of Nazi oppression. Klaus Wowerit was joined by representatives of the International Gay and Lesbian...
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Proud Heritage Online Museum Launched

Posted on: April 19th, 2008 by History Month
>After three years of careful research and development, Proud Heritage, the national museum for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history and cultural ancestry, opened its doors online officially on 18 April. There was a special preview event for the public on the 14th which featured a biographic interview with...
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Imperial War Museum Appeals for LGBT Experiences

Posted on: February 19th, 2008 by History Month
>Only a few days after organising its first ever event for LGBT History Month, the Imperial War Museum has announced a new photographic display titled “Military Pride”. The exhibition, (which will run from 12 July – 12 October 2008 at the Manchester branch of the Museum) will be a...
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Rare Portrait of Playwright Saved

Posted on: February 13th, 2008 by History Month
>In November last year, we mentioned on this blog that the National Portrait Gallery was launching a public appeal for the purchase of a portrait of Elizabethan playwright John Fletcher. The appeal to raise £218,000 has been successful and the Gallery will now be able to add the painting...
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Love, Sex and Metaphor: A Queer Gaze

Posted on: October 18th, 2007 by History Month
>What makes a picture queer? What happens to a painting when confronted with the private (queer) imagination? Sadie Lee, artist, and Shaun Levin, writer and editor of Chroma Journal, explore the portraits they fancy and the paintings that inspire them. For the second time this year, artist Sadie Lee...
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The National Portrait Gallery Goes Queer

Posted on: August 2nd, 2007 by History Month
>Thursday 2 August 2007, 19:00Love, Sex and Metaphor: A Queer Gaze What makes a picture queer? What happens to a painting when confronted with the private (queer) imagination? Sadie Lee, artist, and Shaun Levin, writer, explore the portraits they fancy and the paintings that inspire them. Sunday 19 August...
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Lecture: Daphne Du Maurier

Posted on: July 5th, 2007 by History Month
>To mark the centenary of her birth, the National Portriat Gallery is hold a lecture examining the life of Daphne du Maurier, author of many bestselling novels including The Breaking Point(1959) and The Birds, which was later adapted to become a successful Alfred Hitchcock film in 1963. Sunday 8...
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Statue of Gay War Hero Unveiled

Posted on: June 22nd, 2007 by History Month
>A statue of Alan Turing, was unveiled on Tuesday 19 at Bletchley Park. Turing was the inspirational mathematician at the heart of Bletchley Park’s codebreaking successes during World War II. Historians agree that the work of the codebreakers at Bletchley Park effectively helped to shorten the war by two...
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Out Ranks

Posted on: June 21st, 2007 by History Month
> The GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Fransisco are launching this month the first exhibit in the US to explore the experiences of GLBT veterans. The one-year exhibition opens in June as Congress begins planning hearings on the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” military policy in the fall. “Out...
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