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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...

FA Launches LGBT Action plan

Posted on: February 20th, 2012 by History Month
The Football Association has launched Opening Doors and Joining In – its four year action plan to eradicate homophobia and transphobia from the sport as well as making football a welcoming place for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people as supporters and players. Welcoming the work of Pride Sports,...

FA Releases new Film on Homophobia

Posted on: February 19th, 2012 by History Month
The FA has released a brand new film around anti-Homophobia in Football ahead of announcing an action plan on the subject at Wembley Stadium next week. The film features Brendon Batson and former FA Cup winner and England international John Scales, plus ex-Reading skipper Ady Williams who was capped 13...

Football Clubs “Dragging their Feet” on Homophobia

Posted on: February 19th, 2012 by History Month
Premier league Football clubs have been accused of ‘dragging their feet’ over their commitment to tackling homophobia and transphobia, according to an article in the Independent. Following the announcement by Lynne Featherstone that all the premiership tems were to sign the LGBT Sports charter, made at the LGBT History...

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...

L Project needs Your Support

Posted on: February 18th, 2012 by History Month
A couple of weeks ago we reported a new single by the L Project dedicated to preventing homophobic bullying had been launched. The L Project needs you to buy the single before midnight tonight to get it into the charts. To see the vid and buy the single or...

Australian Star Comes Out and Launches a Missive

Posted on: February 16th, 2012 by History Month
Kath and Kim star Magda Szubanski has come out as a lesbian and posed the question “How come serial killers can get married but we can’t?” to her government. British-born Szubanski, 50, who plays Sharon Strzelecki, stool pigeon to the two main characters, came out on Australian TV on Valentine’s Day...

Third Footballer this Year Charged over Homophobic Tweet

Posted on: February 16th, 2012 by History Month
A third professional footballer has found himself in trouble over homophobic tweets just half-way through the second month of 2012. Following Oxford United’s sacking of  Lee Steele over a homophobic tweet regarding LGBT History Month patron Gareth Thomas and Leicester City fining Michael Ball ditto Anthony Cotton, West Ham’s new signing...

Today Programme Interviews Ugandan Gay and Trans Refugees

Posted on: February 16th, 2012 by History Month
As the Ugandan Government prepares to debate a reformed anti-homosexual bill, the BBC Radio 4 Today programme featured interviews with a gay couple and a transsexual woman who have fled the country after abuse including imprisonment, sexual assault, beatings and harassment. To hear the report and the interviews go...

Green lesbian feminist ‘leftie’ gives it to them with both barrels in New Zealand

Posted on: February 15th, 2012 by History Month
Taking her place in the New Zealand House of Representatives, the NZ parliament’s third out lesbian Jan Logie opened her ‘maiden’ speech by saying “I stand here as a leftie, feminist lesbian.” The 42 year old with a background in social work then went on to assert the endemic nature...

Polari First Book Prize Seeks Nominations

Posted on: February 15th, 2012 by History Month
The Polari First Book Prize; the UK’s prestigious queer literature award is open for nominations from publishers. The prize winning novel will be announced at the South Bank in July. To enter, you must be a publisher and the nominated book must have been written by a UK resident...

Desperate Plea: Help Me be with the One I Love

Posted on: February 12th, 2012 by History Month
A young gay man has recorded a video on YouTube do explain how the US Government’s Defence of Marriage Act prevents him from seeing his boyfriend across the pond and denies him a visa even in the states that have same sex marriage. In the vid Mike explains his predicament and...

L Project launches Charity Single

Posted on: February 12th, 2012 by History Month
A new single by the L Project dedicated to preventing homophobic bullying has been launched. To see the vid and buy the single or donate go here

Tatchell: Livingstone is no Homophobe

Posted on: February 9th, 2012 by History Month
LGBT rights campaigner Peter Tatchell defended Ken Livingstone from Tory accusations of homophobia today. In an interview with the New Statesman, London mayoral candidate Ken suggested that the Tory Party used to be ‘riddled’ with closeted gays and that the lesbian and gay MPs in Labour PM Tony Blair’s administration came out...

Suited and Booted Enter Film Competition

Posted on: February 6th, 2012 by History Month
Your votes needed to help local film win national award   Beloved is a short film produced by Suited and Booted Studios with a group ofyoung people aged 16-19. The film is written by Daniel Zinkant, a young personwho attended LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual) group REACHin Bath....

Featherstone: Premier Clubs Will Sign Charter

Posted on: February 3rd, 2012 by History Month
LGBT History Month began its year focusing on sport with an announcement by Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone thet premier league football clubs would be signing the LGBT Sports Charter during the course of February. Speaking on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, Featherstone reiterated the Government’s commitment to challenging homophobia...

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...

BBC3 Airs Doc on Homosexuality in Football

Posted on: January 28th, 2012 by History Month
BBC3 are to air a documentary tackling the issue of homosexuality in football on Monday. ‘Britain’s Gay Footballers’ airs at 9pm Monday, January 30 and will be hosted by Amal Fashanu, niece of the late former Manchester City player Justin Fashanu. The programme will explore the perceived barriers gay...

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...

Between Women Airs on The Net

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by History Month
A US TV drama following the lives of several high-powered city dwellers is nothing new. But when the characters are lesbian and black that is new. Produced by Michelle A. Daniel and directed by Christina Brown, the show is aired on the net and can be seen at http://www.betweenwomentv.com/#! While you’re there you can join the...

FA Fines Former Player for Homophobic Tweet

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by History Month
Former Manchester City and England defender Michael Ball has been fined by the FA for sending homophobic tweets to Coronation Street star Anthony Cotton. Ball has also had his contract terminated by Leicester City  – but it is understood this decision was made on footballing grounds. The 32-year-old posted...

Former Mayor Blasts “Undesirable Elements” Jibe

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by History Month
A FORMER mayor has accused an influential park group of homophobia after it objected to a Sports Pride festival. Lambeth councillor Christopher Wellbelove blasted the Friends of Clapham Common for claiming that Pride House would bring “undesirable elements” to the area. He has also questioned whether the group should...

“Time to Come Out of the Closet” German FA leader tells players

Posted on: January 19th, 2012 by History Month
The head of the German Football Association has urged closeted players to be open about their sexuality. Yesterday’s comments, made by Theo Zwanziger, are the latest sign that the culture of international sport is evolving. “Players should have the courage to declare themselves,” Zwanziger said during a meeting in...

Australian Tennis Champ Stubbs backs gay rights protest

Posted on: January 15th, 2012 by History Month
Four-time grand slam doubles champion Rennae Stubbs says she fully backs activists showing their support for gay rights at the Australian Open starting next week. Stubbs, who has been open about her homosexuality for six years, said it was only fair that people had the same voice as former...

Gendered Intelligence Youth Sessions

Posted on: January 15th, 2012 by History Month
Trans support and research group Gendered Intelligence are introducing twice monthly sessions for young people to get to know each other and discuss relevant issues. If you are interested and you are between 13 and 25, go here for more information

Martin Luther King born January 15th, 1929

Posted on: January 15th, 2012 by History Month
Human rights martyr Martin Luther King would have been 83 today, January 15th, had he not been assassinated because of racism in 1968. In the UK in 2012 his legendary ”I Have a Dream” speech seems as apposite as ever, with the ongoing battle for justice for Stephen Lawrence and the...

What’s it like to be gay, lesbian or bisexual in school today? Stonewall wants to know

Posted on: January 14th, 2012 by History Month
A new survey by Stonewall seeks students’ views on what it is like to be queer at school. The ‘Speak Out’ survey for LGB young people aged 11 to 19 is up and live. Five years on from their ground-breaking research The School Report Stonewall is once again calling on...

Let’s Hear it for Hip-Hop

Posted on: January 14th, 2012 by History Month
Hip Hop can be a liberating factor for LGBT people and there’s nothing wrong with lovin ‘it, according to journo and LGB rights campaigner Gary Nunn. Whilst acknowledging that some hip-hop lyrics are notoriously homophobic (and sexist), Nunn says he is a fan of the genre and for the...

Identical Twins? Not Exactly

Posted on: January 8th, 2012 by History Month
A pair of identical twins are to make history now that one of them is undergoing gender reassignment. This will challenge the psychologists and sociologists, since  it suggests that sharing the same DNA doesn’t mean  sharing the same identity, but the same or similar environment elicits two quite different results. It...

Past2Present LGBT History Month 2012 ‘OUT’ Now!

Posted on: January 7th, 2012 by History Month
The latest edition of Past2Present, an annual magazine dedicated to LGBT History Month and education us all about our history, is out now. Produced by the LGBT History Project in association with LAGNA, this cornucopia of facts and figures, events and bios, groundbreaking occasions and heroes is now available for your delectation. Covering...

Patrons Make their Mark in the New Year

Posted on: January 6th, 2012 by History Month
Three LGBT History Month patrons have hit the media in the new year. First, John Amaechi appeared on BBC’s Newsround following the Stephen Lawrence verdict on Tuesday. He challenged teachers, parents and peers to look at the person and not the skin colour when they see the black person...

I Support Equality, Says Jamaican PM

Posted on: January 6th, 2012 by History Month
The newly elected Prime Minister of Jamaica has come out in favour of respecting the human rights of “gays”. Portia Simpson Miller spoke in a live TV debate and said that Jamaica should support equality for gay people. When pushed on the issue of whether she would have a gay in her cabinet...

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...

The Drill Hall

Posted on: January 3rd, 2012 by History Month
As of this month the Drill Hall will cease to trade in that name and the theatre will be known as RADA@16 Chenies Street. RADA has taken over the occupancy and management of the building and Central Arts London, the former owners, will continue to organise theatrical productions trading...

Matt Bloomfield Entered for Community Player of the Year

Posted on: January 3rd, 2012 by History Month
We at LGBT History month are delighted to learn Wycombe Wanderers’ longest serving player Matt Bloomfield has been entered for Community player of the Year by his club. Matt signed the Charter for LGBT participation in sport on behalf of his team and spoke on the panel at the...

Pariah Wins Awards

Posted on: January 2nd, 2012 by History Month
The award winning Pariah has woken the US up to the ongoing existence of Black lesbian cinema, according to TheRoot.com. Dee Rees’ debut film about a 17 year old African-American woman coming to terms with her sexuality went down a storm at the Sundance festival and is now on...

Gay Ugandan Wins 11th hour Reprieve

Posted on: January 2nd, 2012 by History Month
Following consistent intervention, Felix Wamala will not be deported to his native Uganda tonight. The deportation has been deferred while the Borders agency investigate allegations made over the previous deportation attempt. The news was given to Felix by his constituency MP Stephen Timms, who has worked with his team during...

Queen’s Gongs Go to LGBT activists

Posted on: January 1st, 2012 by History Month
Three LGBT ‘unsung heroes’ have received gongs in the New Year’s Honours. Jeffrey Dudgeon, Liberal Unionist politician and equal opportunities and human rights campaigner, receives an MBE for services to the LGBT community in Northern Ireland. He brought a six year long case against the UK in his defence of the...

New Turing Tribute and DVD

Posted on: December 31st, 2011 by History Month
A tribute to Alan Turing is now available on the WHOF (Wipe Out Homophobia on Facebok) site. Written by Pink Triangle Theatre’s Paul Burgess, it provides a potted biography and access to a DVD made by the PTT, which is also available on YouTube. To see the page, go...

Irish Schools Still Discriminate against LGB Teachers

Posted on: December 28th, 2011 by History Month
Come out as a gay. lesbian or bisexual teacher in Ireland and you can still face the sack, according to a report in The Montreal Gazette. Irish schools can waive European legislation outlawing discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of sexual orientation on the grounds of their religious ethos, so gay...

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...

Hyde FC win first Manchester equality award

Posted on: December 24th, 2011 by History Month
Hyde FC are the recipients of the first Manchester Credit Union monthly equality award.   The Tigers have received the award in recognition for the club’s exceptional work in becoming the first non-league team to sign up to the charter committing the football club to challenging homophobia and taking a...

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...

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...

Gay Ugandan To Be Deported

Posted on: December 20th, 2011 by History Month
A gay Ugandan asylum seeker will be spending Christmas in the notoriously homophobic state if the UK Borders Agency has its way. Felix Wamala, who has lived in the UK since 1995, is currently in a detention centre at Gatwick airport awaiting deportation on December the 24th. Felix now 40, says he was...

Melbourne Elects Intersex Mayor

Posted on: December 18th, 2011 by History Month
The world’s first intersex mayor has been elected by the good folk of Hobsons Bay in Melbourne. Tony Briffa, who has served Hobsons Bay as a councillor for many years, has vowed to march for pride in full civil regalia. To read more, go here

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...

Christopher Hitchens Dies Aged 62

Posted on: December 18th, 2011 by History Month
Maverick journalist and thorn in the side of the right – as well as the left over the war against Iraq – Christopher Hitchens has succumbed to the esophageal cancer and passed away. An outspoken commentator who took no hostages and didn’t speak with his right wing counterpart sibling Peter, Christopher was a...

Financial Times Praises Tatchell

Posted on: December 12th, 2011 by History Month
Unlikely though it may seem, the Financial Times Weekend magazine featured a lengthy article on the life and work of Peter Tatchell. The notoriously pink paper, which is better known for the FTSE index and its support for the pin-stripe brigade than for praising LGBT campaigners, published an account...

London Launches Pride House for Summer 2012

Posted on: December 9th, 2011 by History Month
The 9th of December saw the launch of Pride House London, which on 26 July 2012 will open its doors in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.Continuing the great work realised by Pride House Vancouver and Whistler...

Section 28 return a Non-Story, Says Government

Posted on: December 6th, 2011 by History Month
Government sources say that the “return of Section 28″ story reported on Sunday is a fiction and a meddlesome piece of work produced by the press. According to Whitehall officials, the notion that the funding agreement for academies and free schools is dependent upon them signing up to promoting...

Gove To Reintroduce Section 28?

Posted on: December 4th, 2011 by History Month
The Government’s flagship academies and free schools may be forced to promote marriage and devalue families based on other relationships if they wish to obtain and sustain their funding, according to a report in the Telegraph today (December 4th). A document laying out the conditions for funding these new...

Elton John calls for an end to homophobia on World AIDS Day

Posted on: December 4th, 2011 by History Month
Elton John, singer songwriter and probably the most famous same sex parent in the world, as well as being the founder of the Elton John AIDS federation, clearly linked homophobia with the AIDS epidemic in an article written on World AIDS Day. In the article, written for the Huffington Post, Sir...

3-year Ban for Homophobic Fan

Posted on: December 4th, 2011 by History Month
A Southampton supporter who chanted homophobic abuse has received a three-year football banning order. Joseph Webb committed the offence at Southampton’s St Mary’s Stadium during the Championship game with Brighton and Hove Albion on 19 November. Webb, 26, of Field Close, Romsey, admitted at Southampton Magistrates’ Court to a...

Football pro: Why I support the campaign against homophobia

Posted on: November 30th, 2011 by History Month
Wycombe Wanderers midfielder Matt Bloomfield – the first player to sign the Government’s Charter for LGBT People in sport – has spoken of his appearance at the LGBT History Month Pre-Launch and the need to eradicate homophobia in football. In an article o the BBC’s Sport site, Matt praised...

Nigeria Passes Anti-LGB Bill

Posted on: November 30th, 2011 by History Month
A new bill that will make Nigeria one of the most homophobic states in the world is about to be signed by its President Goodluck Jonathan. The Bill, which was originally designed to ban same sex marriage but has grown much more wide ranging in its discriminatory measures, has been voted...

Shock at All Male Sports personality Shortlist

Posted on: November 29th, 2011 by History Month
Sportswomen and campaigners have  expressed outrage that the ten sports stars shortlisted for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year are all men. Gold medal winners such as Rebecca Adlington and Keri-Anne Payne have been overlooked by the sports journalists and reporters who decide on the finalists. Paralympic sports...

200 Transphobic Murders Last Year

Posted on: November 28th, 2011 by History Month
According to a trans research group, 200 people were killed in transphobic attacks, many of which involved frenzied violence or were ritualistic. The Transrespect vs Transphobia project released the figures in the build up to Trans Remembrance Day on November 20th. Although nowhere is safe, Brazil and Honduras seem...

E-Petition Calls for Turing Pardon

Posted on: November 26th, 2011 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,...

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...

Diversity Role Models Endorsed by Home Secretary

Posted on: November 19th, 2011 by History Month
A new project aimed at tackling homophobia and transphobia was endorsed by Home Secretary Theresa May last week at a parliamentary launch. Diversity Role Models, a campaign designed to tackle homophobia and transphobia by making well-known LGBT figures visible in schools was launched officially last week and is the brainchild...

Schools tell gay and lesbian pupils to change separately

Posted on: November 19th, 2011 by History Month
A research report in Yorkshire has found evidence that students in schools who identify as gay or lesbian have been told to change separately from their classmates. The report, Tackling Homophobia and Transphobia In Settings Supporting Young People, which is published to coincide with Anti-Bullying Week, interviewed students, teachers and...

Trans Remembrance Day November 20

Posted on: November 12th, 2011 by History Month
November 20th is the International Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR). Now a recognised annual event in the International Equalities and Human Rights calendar, the Day will include a wide range of events throughout the world and in the UK. For an international diary of commemorative events and their locations,...

Second pro Comes Out

Posted on: November 11th, 2011 by History Month
Montreal forward David Testo has become the second professional footballer to come out this year. Coming out on Radio CBC Canada, the 30-year-old player voiced his regret that he hadn’t come out earlier, and particularly that he didn’t that his partner for his support when he won an award in 2009.

National History Project: American President was Gay

Posted on: November 5th, 2011 by History Month
The 15th US President James Buchanan was gay and it was no big secret, according to a new LGBT history site. His partner, William Rufus King, was the longest serving US vice-president. And America’s unofficial anthem America the Brave was written by Katharine Lee Bates, a lesbian. The Project’s...

Charlton Sign up

Posted on: October 30th, 2011 by History Month
Charlton has become the second professional football club to sign the Government’s Charter for Action, two days after Wycombe Wanderers. The Charter was launched by Equalities Minister  Lynne Featherstone at a special rugby legue match between Sheffield Eagles and Wigan, during which the home team wore shirts emblazoned with the logo: “Homophobia –...

Wycombe Wanderers Sign the Charter

Posted on: October 29th, 2011 by History Month
Wycombe Wanderers has become the first professional club in England to sign a Government Charter committing themselves to tackling homophobia and transphobia in football. Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted the club after Wanderers signed up to the Government Charter for Action, which commits them to challenging discrimination and working...

Elly’s No. 1!

Posted on: October 23rd, 2011 by History Month
Music teacher and Equality and Diversity trainer Elly Barnes is the Number One LGBT figure in the nation, according to the Independent Pink List. The annual list, published in the Independent on Sunday, named Elly as the Number one “unsung hero” who made life better for LGBT people. Elly,...

Belgium to have first gay Prime Minister

Posted on: October 18th, 2011 by History Month
After nearly 500 days without a Government, it looks as if Belgium is about to have a gay prime minister of Italian descent. Elio di Rupo, 59 and the leader of the Francophone socialist party, has been charged to form a government out of the six warring parties and...

Educate and celebrate – with Elly Barnes

Posted on: October 16th, 2011 by History Month
There are still places available on Elly Barnes’ dynamic and resourceful ‘Educate and Celebrate’ one-day course for teachers. held at the ground-breaking Stoke Newington School’s Diversity and Training Centre, the course helps teachers to combat homophobia and transphobia while meeting the demands of the equality act public Sector Duty and OFSTED....

Trans Film Features Real-life Trans Actor

Posted on: October 16th, 2011 by History Month
A hard hitting drama about a man who returns from prison to his home in the Bronx and finds his wife has taken a new boyfriend and his son is transitioning to a woman, Gun Hill Road is a new film being talked about in the USA. With gritty,...

New Ally joins Government

Posted on: October 15th, 2011 by History Month
An advocate of LGBT rights and supporter of same-sex marriage has gained a place in the government following the resignation of disgraced Defence minister Liam Fox. Chloe Smith – known for being the youngest MP in parliament, has secured the post of junior economic secretary in the coalition government. A Tory, Smith supported LGBT Pride...

Ex-Chelsea Elliott: Let’s tackle Homophobia in Football

Posted on: October 15th, 2011 by History Month
Retired leading professional footballer Paul Elliott has said homophobia is the next battle in football. In an interview with Metro, Elliott, who eschewed a possible coaching career to campaign for equal rights in sport, compares the situation for gay players with the situation for black players 25 years ago: “…we got abuse. It was hard to...

Veteran gay Campaigner Frank Kameny Dies

Posted on: October 12th, 2011 by History Month
Frank Kameny, who was sacked for being openly gay in 1957 and took to the streets from 1965 – four years before the Stonewall Riots and a decade before gay liberation supposedly began, has died aged 86. To read the Equality Forum obituary go here

New British Film to Premiere in Bournemouth

Posted on: October 12th, 2011 by History Month
A new British film will portray a gay relationship from many years ago and how an act of treachery brought it to a tragic outcome. Set in  a Somerset village, Rufus Stone is a picture of what life was like for a young gay man in rural England in...

Jason Pollock Dies

Posted on: October 11th, 2011 by History Month
The former Chief Executive of Pride London – Jason Pollock – has died, according to the Pink Paper. The news has shocked many members of the gay community, who worked closely with the annual parade organiser for up to twenty years. Reports suggest he died on Tuesday, although further...

BBC1 Airs Intersex documentary

Posted on: October 11th, 2011 by History Month
BBC1 will broadcast Me, My Sex & I; a documentary about being intersex this evening, October the 11th at 10.35pm (11.05 Scotland and Wales). Claiming to tell the “stories of people born neither entirely male or female”, the programme follows the previous evening’s broadcast of a young FTM trans couple in a relationship...

BBC3 Broadcasts Trans Documentary

Posted on: October 10th, 2011 by History Month
A documentary featuring an FTM trans couple, Sam and Evan, who transition whilst in a same-sex relationship, will air tonight (October 10th) at 9pm on BBC3. Sam and Evan: From Girls to Men, which also airs on BBC HD at the same time and will be repeated at 00.30...

Happy Black History Month

Posted on: October 2nd, 2011 by History Month
October is UK Black History Month and we wish all our BME sisters and brothers a successful and fruitful month with lots of events. To see our list of important BME LGBT figures go here. To go to the site click here  

Pre-Launch at The Oval November 21st

Posted on: October 2nd, 2011 by History Month
This year’s LGBT History Month Pre-Launch will be held at The Kia Oval, Kennington, South London. The all-day event starts in the morning with a series of Equality in Sports Practice sessions and is followed by a session mid-afternoon with Sports Minister Hugh Robertson. Late tea-time there will be...

Canadian National Newspaper Publishes Transphobic Ad

Posted on: October 1st, 2011 by History Month
Canada’s National Post angered equality campaigners last week when it published an ad by a right wing evangelical group that attacked  the Toronto Curriculum for promoting equality. The ad, which calls on people to sign a petition and visit a website which campaigns against corrupting children, shows a young girl...

Horse up Close and Personal

Posted on: September 28th, 2011 by History Month
Horse has organised a rare UK tour during the autumn where she will provide listeners with an acoustic set in an ‘intimate’ setting. To find venues and book tickets, go here

Tatchell: Why is Labour not debating same-sex marriage?

Posted on: September 26th, 2011 by History Month
Peter Tatchell has demanded to know why Labour has not supported same-sex marriage when the Green party and the GMB do. Moreover, he says party leader Ed Miliband supports it, and demands to know why it isn’t party policy. To read the full article, go here

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...

Outing comes out in Italy

Posted on: September 24th, 2011 by History Month
An Italian Blog has “outed” 10 MPs as a protest against the state’s homophobic policies and laws. The blog’s authors said the aim was “to bring a bit of justice into a country where people have no way of defending themselves against daily insults and attacks from hypocritical politicians.”...

No Gay Blood in Ulster

Posted on: September 24th, 2011 by History Month
Northern Ireland health minister Edwin Poots has come under heavy pressure to lift the lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men giving blood. Mr Poots said this week that he would not bring Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the country because of fears around HIV transmission....
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Disability History Month Pre-Launch September 22nd

Posted on: September 21st, 2011 by History Month
UK Disability History Month is holding a Pre-Launch for 2011 on Thursday 22nd September  at the TUC,  Great Russell Street, WC1  from 5pm to 6.30 pm. Co-ordinator Richard Rieser has urged everyone to attend, stating: “This is a crucial time to celebrate the contribution of disabled people to our society, now and in the past. We...

Getting Bivisible

Posted on: September 20th, 2011 by History Month
Friday September the 24th is Bi-Visibility Day, with celebrations and events around the UK. On Monday the 19th of September Radio 4 aired Getting Bi and went on to label it Documentary of the Week. Presented by Tom Robinson, the programme uses historical and anecdotal experiences of a little spoken...

Hold the Page!

Posted on: September 18th, 2011 by History Month
The Pre-Launch of LGBT History Month 2012 will be held at the Kia Oval in Kennington on November the 21st. Put the date in your diaries and watch this space for further details of this event. Click the image for more information.

Tatchell Interviewed on US TV

Posted on: September 18th, 2011 by History Month
Peter Tatchell’s hour-long interview with the New York-based TV programme, Gay USA, conducted by Andy Humm and Ann Northrop. Watch here: http://tinyurl.com/3pu45bl Peter Tatchell, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, writes: Ranging over my 44 years of LGBT and human rights activism, this Gay USA interview includes discussions about my...

Arthur Evans Dies aged 69

Posted on: September 18th, 2011 by History Month
Veteran Gay rights and anti-AIDS activist Arthur Evans has died after a heart attack aged 69. A participant in the Stonewall Riots, Evans went on to join the Gay Liberation Front after 1969, although he left later as he felt the organisation was watering down the cause by taking...

Richard Coles Brings History of Same-Sex Desire to Radio 3

Posted on: September 15th, 2011 by History Month
A chaplain and former Bronski Beat member is to cover the history of same-sex desire on BBC Radio 3. Richard Coles, who was in the band and went on to help form The Communards, before studying Theology and getting himself ordained, travels to different parts of the world and...

FIFA: We Will Investigate Coach

Posted on: September 14th, 2011 by History Month
Fifa is to open an inquiry into the issue of homophobia in women’s football and Nigeria head coach, Eucharia Uche could be in line for investigation. Three international bodies – AllOut, the Federation of Gay Games, and the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association – having secured 46,000 signatures...

Bury and Nigeria defender Efe Sodje signs up to the Government ‘CHARTER’.

Posted on: September 13th, 2011 by History Month
On the eve of the recent 21st birthday celebrations for Manchester Pride, the local LGBT sports teams and organizations gathered to kick off the weekends main events with the annual ‘It’s a Gay Knockout’ at Taurus Bar on Canal St. This year, ‘loud and proud’ best wishes and a...

Poll Shows Older Gays and Lesbians Worse off

Posted on: September 13th, 2011 by History Month
A recent poll shows that LGB people are disadvantaged compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Half as likey to be visited regularly by their relatives and twice as likely to be dependent on care. This follows a number of surveys and documentaries exposing shocking abuse and negligence in our care...

Human Rights Watch: Netherlands violates transgender rights

Posted on: September 13th, 2011 by History Month
Dutch civil law violates the human rights of transgender people. That is the conclusion of a report published by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday. The Dutch government is urged to change the law without delay. Article 28 of the Dutch civil code requires transgender people to take hormones and undergo...

Gay Sports Star Says: “Don’t Come Out”

Posted on: September 4th, 2011 by History Month
Gay cycle champ Graham Obree has urged gay sports stars to stay in the closet, hot on the heels of the German football captain’s advice to gay footballers not to come out. Speaking in an interview published in the Scottish Sun, Obree stated that being openly gay raised suspicion in the...

Gay soccer players should not come out – says German captain

Posted on: August 30th, 2011 by History Month
Reuters – Gay professional soccer players should not come out because the repercussions could be too devastating, according to Germany captain Philipp Lahm. “I would not advise any gay professional footballer to come out,” Lahm wrote in his autobiography “The Subtle Difference”. “I would fear that he could end up...
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