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Let’s Hear it for the 80s

Posted on: April 18th, 2012 by History Month
Remember when we all had a friend or friends dying of AIDS? When we marched with the miners to stop Thatcher destroying the working class? When the Daily Mail and the Express and The Sun hated us so much they urged the government to impose Section 28? When Jenny...

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.

England Cricketer Steven Davies Comes Out

Posted on: February 28th, 2011 by History Month
>England cricketer Steve Davies came out to his teammates at the start of The Ashes tour, according to The Sun (28-02-11). Speaking to a reporter from the paper, Steve explained that he couldn’t face a three and a half month tour without explaining to his team that he was...
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Prison Hosts Gay Players’ Football Match

Posted on: February 26th, 2011 by History Month
>Players from the Justin Campaign Allstars team competed against inmates and staff from Winchester Prison last week, in a bid to highlight this year’s Football v Homophobia campaign. The indoor football tournament took place on 9 February after inmates watched a short documentary about gay football team, the Brighton...
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Secret’s Out on the Hidden Life of Gay Victorians

Posted on: February 24th, 2011 by History Month
>The secret history of Manchester’s gay Victorians is being unearthed in a major study. Historian Jeff Evans, a member of the Schools Out/LGBT History Month team, is looking at attitudes to homosexuality during the last 150 years. He has now charted Manchester’s origin as Britain’s gay capital after a...
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Gay Republican Launches White House Bid

Posted on: February 19th, 2011 by History Month
>Fred Karger, the first openly gay candidate for the US presidency, has begun his campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to The Observer. Read the full article on the Observer’s website, here.
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LGBT Campaigners Attack Repentance App

Posted on: February 19th, 2011 by History Month
>The much-talked about Roman Catholic online confession App has come under attack from an LGBT rights group for asking “Have I been guilty of any homosexual activity?” among its questions. Truth Wins out accuses the app of helping to encourage neurosis and shame. To see full article on the...
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Scotland: Gay & Lesbian History Trail Planned for Edinburgh Area

Posted on: February 14th, 2011 by History Month
>A lesbian and gay ‘history trail’ is being developed in the county by East Lothian Museums Service.The exact format of the trail has still to be decided but a spokeswoman for the local authority said: ” In general terms, the museum service will be looking to identify individuals, events...
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Baynham Killers Found Guilty

Posted on: December 18th, 2010 by History Month
>The killers of Ian Baynham have been found guilty of manslaughter. Ruby Thomas, 18, of Lichfield, Staffs, and Joel Alexander, 20, of Thornton Heath, southeast London, beat and kicked Ian Baynham, 62, and stamped on his head in a homophobic assault, causing such injury that he died 18 days...
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FIFA Condemned for Lack of Gay-friendliness

Posted on: December 15th, 2010 by History Month
>The Gay Football Supporters’ Network has condemned FIFA for its decision to allow Qatar to host the World Cup in 2022. The middle eastern nation was awarded the honour despite its poor human rights record and the fact that homosexuality is criminalised in the country and carries a penalty...
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Press Release: World Cup Decision a ‘Particular Disappointment for Our Community’

Posted on: December 3rd, 2010 by History Month
>LGBT campaigners were expressing disappointment at the choices of venue for the World Cup over the next decade. FIFA, Football’s governing body, announced yesterday that the World Cup competition would take place in Russia in 2018 and in Qatar in 2022. Both countries have dubious track records in respect...
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Successful Pre-launch for LGBT History Month

Posted on: November 4th, 2010 by History Month 1 Comment
>The sports community today joined LGBT activists at a ground breaking event to make plans for the biggest ever Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History Month, throughout February 2011. The month aims to raise the profile of LGBT sportspeople past and present, as well as tackling homophobia and transphobia...
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A Stonewall Veteran, 89, Misses the Parade

Posted on: June 30th, 2010 by History Month
>At noon on Sunday, thousands of marchers filled Fifth Avenue for New York City’s annual gay pride parade. Nearly six miles away, on the sixth floor of a nursing home in Brooklyn, the frail, white-haired woman in beige pajamas and brown slippers in Room 609 sat motionless at the...
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Forty Years of Gay Liberation Front

Posted on: June 29th, 2010 by History Month
>“We were just spectacular,” says Michael James, former drag queen and member of the 1970s’ Gay Liberation Front. “Visible, colourful, out loud, inventive, flamboyant and very, very funny.” It’s been 40 years since gay men and women put forward a radical notion – being gay wasn’t something to hide...
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Dakar: From Africa’s Gay Capital to Centre of Homophobia

Posted on: June 16th, 2010 by History Month
>In colonial times, Senegal’s metropolis Dakar was famous for its open and tolerated homosexual prostitution market, and as late as in the 1970s, as many as 17 percent of Senegalese men admitted having had homosexual experiences. Now, Dakar is West Africa’s centre of gay oppression. Read the full article...
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Embargoed Government Files Expose Homophobic Attitudes

Posted on: May 28th, 2010 by History Month
>Embargoed government files from 1974-1978 were released by The National Archives today, unveiling some of the disturbing attitudes government officials once held towards homosexuality – and how their approach was softened by the equality movement. Read the full article in the Pink Paper here.
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Is the Malawi Couple Sentence a Trans Issue?

Posted on: May 26th, 2010 by History Month
>Yes, according to Natacha Kennedy. Writing in the Guardian’s Comment is free section, Kennedy claims that Tiwonge, who lives as a woman when at liberty, is transgender, possibly intersex, and that failing to mention this is implicitly transphobic. Read the full article in the Guardian here.
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Prevalence of Homophobia’ – News Round Up

Posted on: May 25th, 2010 by History Month
>Following the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia launch of the ‘Prevalence of Homophobia’ surveys in the North West, the following news reports have appeared showing the true extent of homophobia in our schools. - Homophobic abuse rife in Liverpool schools by Marc Waddington, Liverpool Echo- Liverpool marks International...
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Cameron Says He Will Try to Celebrate LGBT History Month

Posted on: April 12th, 2010 by History Month
>Answering questions put to him by readers of Pink News, Tory Leader David Cameron said he supports LGBT History Month and will try to celebrate it if elected to form a Tory Government. Asked if he would hold a reception to celebrate LGBT History Month in Downing Street, as...
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New Legislation to Protect LGB People

Posted on: March 25th, 2010 by History Month
>The Scottish parliament has passed legislation that will make hate crime a factor in prosecuting people who attack LGB and/or disabled people, bringing it in line with legislation south of the border. The Offences (Aggravation by Prejudice) (Scotland) Act 2009, passed by Holyrood on Wednesday was also the first...
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Same Sex Hand Holding Nominated for Award

Posted on: February 28th, 2010 by History Month 1 Comment
>A Day in Hand – LGBT History Month’s sister project, has been nominated to win the Pink Paper award for ‘best gay organisation’ –for A Day In Hand and for ‘best event’– for Same-sex hand holding Saturdays. David Watkins, the project’s founder, says: “So this is the final round,...
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Michelangelo’s Dreams of Male Muse Go on Show at Courtauld

Posted on: February 17th, 2010 by History Month
>London gallery displays finest of Renaissance artist’s drawings for his friends, with loans from the Vatican and the Queen. Some of the most magnificent drawings ever executed – physical manifestations of Michelangelo’s love and infatuation for a handsome and intelligent teenage boy – will on Thursday go on display...
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Convicted for Buggery 51 Years Ago – and Still Paying a Price

Posted on: February 17th, 2010 by History Month
>The crime no longer exists but, half a century on, John Crawford’s criminal record dogs his every step. For more than half a century John Crawford’s crime has cast a shadow over his life; a permanent stigma etched into the files of the national police database. His conviction in...
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France Strikes Transexualism from List of Mental Illnesses

Posted on: February 17th, 2010 by History Month
> France has become the first country in the world to remove gender identity disorder, also known as transexualism, from its list of officially recognised mental illnesses. This is huge news but seems yet to have been picked up by English language news sources.   The news was  in...
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Ofsted Urges Schools to Relax Internet Restrictions

Posted on: February 16th, 2010 by History Month
> Many schools have a blanket lockdown policy on their internet connections so learners can’t see sites like LGBT History Month and Schools OUT. It is up to individual head teachers and governors how they deal with the internet. If they have a system that blocks sites they can...
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Gay Sherlock Holmes

Posted on: December 26th, 2009 by History Month
>Guy Richie’s newest version of the cerebral detective’story is released today, with what we are promised is a homoerotic view of the relationship between the famous sleuth and his accolite Dr Watson. Robert Downey Jr, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock, told a British newspaper the film was about “two men who...
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Ex-Lion Gareth Thomas Reveals He Is Gay

Posted on: December 19th, 2009 by History Month
>Former Wales and Lions captain Gareth Thomas has broken one of the major taboos that surround sport by revealing he is gay. Read the full article on BBC Sport here. There is also a very long (and positive) article in the Daily Mail here.
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Professorial Patrons for LGBT History Month

Posted on: December 16th, 2009 by History Month
>LGBT History Month today announced four new academic patrons: Sheila Rowbotham, Viv Gardner, Melanie Tebbutt and Martin Hall. All four are highly respected professors in their fields. Prof Rowbotham is a sociologist and international writer on women’s history. Viv Gardner is Professor of Theatre Studies, with a special interest...
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Biggest Ever Pre-launch Event for LGBT History Month

Posted on: November 20th, 2009 by History Month
>The British Museum hosted a day of presentations and workshops yesterday, to encourage celebrations of LGBT History Month, next February, whose theme will be Education and Young People. Students from three local schools took part in a field trip with a difference. They had a special tour of the...
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An Officer and a Gentle Woman: The Sex-change Aristocrat

Posted on: November 11th, 2009 by History Month
>He led a life of privilege — game hunter, Guardsman and gentleman farmer. But Rhodri Davies had only one desire: to be a woman. So he changed his gender, lost his family, and found a new career as a nurse. Read the full article in The Times here. Miranda...
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Radio Drama: Turing’s Test

Posted on: October 16th, 2009 by History Month
>History Boys and Desperate Romantics star Samuel Barnett plays Second World War Enigma code breaker Alan Turing in a new radio drama part of a pioneering experiment between The Independent and award-winning production company Made in Manchester (MIM). Turing’s Test is a fictional take on what might have been...
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The Homosexual Is 140 – and Showing His Age

Posted on: October 5th, 2009 by History Month
>As you may have noticed, the out-and-proud modern gay, born amidst protest, shouting and flying bottles outside the Stonewall Inn in 1969, is now forty years old. But you may be less aware that this year is also the 140th birthday of a much more discreet and distinguished (if...
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Coming Out in Middle School

Posted on: September 28th, 2009 by History Month
>In their recent Schools Issue, the New York Times have a long article gathering testimonies of coming out stories at school. Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go...
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Sun and Mail Show Transphobia Is Alive and Well

Posted on: September 23rd, 2009 by History Month
>The case of the child who has begun secondary school in her new gender has clearly whetted the appetites of the hacks in the right wing press who are looking for their marmalade droppers. Schools OUT believes that forcing a child to go through puberty and adolescence when s/he...
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Gordon Brown Says Sorry to Alan Turing

Posted on: September 10th, 2009 by History Month 1 Comment
>Campaigners, including Schools OUT are celebrating victory after Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an apology on the part of the State for the shameful treatment of maths genius and war hero Alan Turing. Over 30,000 people signed an online petition prepared by John Graham-Cumming and supported by Richard Dawkins,...
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Methodist Minister Comes Out As Trans After 27 Years

Posted on: September 9th, 2009 by History Month
>Just months after telling his own children that he was not their biological father, The Rev. David Weekley, who is in his late-50s, came out to his congregation of 221 members at the Epworth United Methodist Church in the Sunnyside neighborhood in inner Southeast Portland, on Sunday, Aug. 30,...
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The 5 Genders of the Bugis

Posted on: September 8th, 2009 by History Month
>The Bugis are the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, the southwestern province of Sulawesi, Indonesia’s third largest island. As shown in the National Geographic clip below, they recognise not two but five different genders, some of them endowed with magical powers....
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Turing Relatives Recall ‘Uncle Alan’

Posted on: September 7th, 2009 by History Month
>The growing petition (now nearing 30000 signatures) aimed at securing a posthumous apology for computing pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing is gaining media coverage. On Thursday, Newsnight dedicated a report by Susan Watts on the innitiative by Dr John Graham-Cumming. also traced relatives of Turing for interview. You can...

JFK and His Gay Best Friend of 30 Years

Posted on: September 6th, 2009 by History Month
>John F. Kennedy is one of the most studied and written-about presidents of the 20th century. Aside from the remaining mysteries surrounding his assassination, there is little that is unknown about the life of the thirty-fifth president of the United States. Or so we thought. In Jack and Lem,...
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Gay Humanists Welcome Support for Alan Turing Campaign

Posted on: August 21st, 2009 by History Month
>The gay Humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has warmly welcomed the decision of Richard Dawkins to back the campaign to win an official apology for Alan Turing, the code-breaking genius and father of the modern computer who committed suicide in 1954 after being prosecuted for being homosexual....
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Evelyn Waugh ‘Had Gay Affairs at Oxford’

Posted on: August 15th, 2009 by History Month
>A new biography of author Evelyn Waugh claims he had three gay relationships while studying at Oxford in the 1920s. Waugh, whose most famous works were Brideshead Revisited and Scoop, was described as “one of the great bisexual authors” by biographer Paula Byrne. In the book, titled Mad World:...
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Hope for LGB People in Zimbabwe

Posted on: August 10th, 2009 by History Month
>The Guardian today reports that lesbian, gay and bisexual Zimbabweans are hoping for the kind of changes that South Africans enjoy. Following years of oppression and brutal attacks under Robert Mugabe, who once described gay men as being worse than dogs and whose henchman beat up Peter Tatchell openly...
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19 Years of LGBT Video History Preserved

Posted on: July 31st, 2009 by History Month
>Thousands of hours of video news and features on the LGBT and AIDS movements produced by Lou Maletta for his Gay Cable Network (GCN) over 19 years have been acquired by New York University’s Fales Library for cataloguing and preservation. Read the full article in Chelsea Now here.
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Soldier Magazine Celebrates 10 Years of LGBT Soldiers

Posted on: July 28th, 2009 by History Month
>With a picture of openly gay service member Tpr James Wharton on its cover, the British Army’s magazine, Soldier, celebrates ten years since being gay in the UK Armed Forces stopped being illegal and takes stocks of the army’s commitment to diversity. The magazine also features an article about...
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Surrey Investigates Its Gay History

Posted on: July 27th, 2009 by History Month
>Surrey county council has started an investigation into the county’s gay history after the charity Gay Surrey donated its archives to the Surrey Historical Centre. Volunteers are to spend the next few months working through approximately five million records, dating back to the 12th century, in order to find...
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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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Independent on Sunday Pink List 2009

Posted on: July 14th, 2009 by History Month
>The Independent on Sunday has published this year’s list of the 101 most powerful gay and lesbian people in the UK. The 10th edition of it. This year’s number one, who replaces BBC presenter Evan Davis is New Labour’s eminence grise Peter, Lord Mandelson. You can find the full...
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LGBTHM Co-Chair Honoured with Community Award

Posted on: July 12th, 2009 by History Month
>Sue Sanders, co-chair of Schools Out and LGBT History Month, received an award in recognition of her lifetime’s campaigning for LGBT rights, on Friday night Veteran campaigner Ray Gosling presented Sue with the Derek Oyston Award at a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the the Gay and Lesbian...
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A Meeting with Kate Craig-Wood

Posted on: July 7th, 2009 by History Month 1 Comment
>In an article titled “‘I’m lucky, many men would never pass for a woman’”, the award winning businesswoman Kate Craig-Wood talks about her transition from Robert to Kate. Read the full article in the Telegraph here.
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37 Years of Pride London in Pictures

Posted on: July 4th, 2009 by History Month
>To mark Pride London, taking place later today, the BBC have put together a slideshow of images from the Hall Carpenter Archives retracing 37 years of marches and protests on the streets and in the parks of London. You can view the images here.
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Stonewall Riots Remembered

Posted on: June 28th, 2009 by History Month
>It is 40 years today since the Stonewall Riots took place. Jim Fouratt, later founder of the Gay Liberation Front, who was there, and Kenneth Partridge, who was on the London gay scene at the time, discuss the lasting significance of the riots with Evan Davies on Thursday’s Today...
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Gilbert and George: The Odd Couple

Posted on: June 25th, 2009 by History Month
>Gilbert and George have no friends, no kitchen, and dress only in tweed. On the eve of their strangest show yet, the ‘living sculptures’ talk frankly about art, fashion and faith. Read the full article in the Guardian and watch a videohere. George, raised a Methodist, is more sarcastic:...
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‘Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are’

Posted on: June 23rd, 2009 by History Month
>Sir Ian McKellen explains why everyone has the right to live openly, as we approach the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. I remember when Michael Cashman, now an MEP, was the first chairman of the lobby group Stonewall. He said that gays would have full equality in ten...
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Jake Arnott: Joe Meek and Me

Posted on: June 15th, 2009 by History Month
>Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm, tells the Evening Standard of the influence the gay music producer Joe Meek had on him on the occasion of the release of Telstar, a biopic of Meek. Joe Meek’s sound has always haunted me, his weird and wonderful tunes echoed through...
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Channel 4 to Put Back Catalogue Online for Free

Posted on: June 8th, 2009 by History Month 1 Comment
>Channel 4 is to become the first UK broadcaster to put its back catalogue online completely free of charge – giving viewers the chance to watch homegrown shows such as Queer As Folk or the first lesbian kiss to be shown before the 9pm watershed (in Brookside). From July,...
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California Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Ban but Protects Already Married Couples

Posted on: May 27th, 2009 by History Month 1 Comment
>The California Supreme Court decided on May 26th to uphold Proposition 8 banning same sex marriage throughout the state. However, judges also agreed unanimously not to annul the 18,000 same sex marriages that have taken place. “The marriages of same-sex couples performed prior to the effective date of Proposition...
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Britain Has Grown Up About Gays, Says Maxwell Davies

Posted on: May 5th, 2009 by History Month
> The Queen’s Master of Music says the appointment of Carol Ann Duffy as Poet Laureate has shown how far Britain has come its attitude towards gay people. Orkney-based Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who like Glasgow-born Duffy is openly gay, said Britain had “grown up enormously” over people’s sexual...
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Stephen Fry’s Letter to Himself: Dearest Absurd Child

Posted on: May 1st, 2009 by History Month
>Just who was the young, arrogant and confused man to whom Stephen Fry recently felt compelled to write a long and heartfelt letter? Himself, 35 years ago Read the full letter in the Guardian here. The article is an edited version of a piece published in the 25th-birthday edition...

Bi-Novelists Talk About Their Love for Each Other

Posted on: April 19th, 2009 by History Month
>A lesbian novelist who used to attack bisexuals and a bisexual author have talked about their relationship four years on. To coincide with his new novel, Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm, tells the Guardian about his relationship with Stephanie Theobold, whilst Theobold herself explains how she had...
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US Schools Mark National Day of Silence

Posted on: April 17th, 2009 by History Month
>Schools in the US marked the National Day of Silence today to bring attention to LGBT bullying. This year’s date is considered especially significant as Carl Walker-Hoover, of Massachusetts, would have been 12 today. Carl killed himself last week after suffering months of homophobic bullying at school. Read the...
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Tory Councillor Suspended for Anti-Gay Remarks

Posted on: April 13th, 2009 by History Month 1 Comment
>A Conservative county councillor said he was “saddened” after being suspended from his party over remarks he made regarding homosexuality. Patrick Clark, the former deputy Conservative group leader for Derbyshire County Council, was suspended from his group on Wednesday. It followed an article he had written in the Duffield...
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Schools Reminded to Use DCSF Guidance on Homophobic Bullying

Posted on: April 8th, 2009 by History Month
>The government has raised concerns over a lack of awareness within schools of their responsibility to address homophobic bullying. Children’s minister Delyth Morgan sent a letter to all headteachers and directors of children’s services this week, instructing them to familiarise everyone with existing guidance on preventing and tackling homophobic...
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Why I Blame Myself for the Murder of Joe Orton

Posted on: April 5th, 2009 by History Month
>It was a Sixties cause celebre – the bludgeoning of an outrageous playwright by his gay lover. Now, with Orton’s best-known work revived in the West End, comes this startling confession from theatre and film critic Michael Thornton… Read the full article in the Daily Mail, here.

Lorca Was Censored to Hide His Sexuality, Biographer Reveals

Posted on: March 20th, 2009 by History Month
>Many recognised his homosexuality from the start, but for decades Spain’s literary establishment, and even his own family, refused to acknowledge that the country’s best loved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was gay. Now his biographer, Ian Gibson, has conclusive evidence that Lorca’s poetic achievements sprang from his lifelong frustration...
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End of the Road for Old-school Drag Queens

Posted on: March 9th, 2009 by History Month
>”The old drag queen is dead; long live the new drag queen. As Jason Donovan dons a frock this week in the stage version of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, cabarets and clubs across Britain are dispensing with “old school” drag artists in their thick make-up, grandiose wigs and...

Of Course Tintin Is Gay. Ask Snowy

Posted on: January 12th, 2009 by History Month
>His adventures have sold more than 200 million copies and been translated into 50 languages, and this weekend he celebrates his 80th birthday. But how well do we really know Tintin? For Matthew Parris, one thing’s for certain, he is one of the boys… Read the full article from...
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Nigel Owen: The Only Gay on the Pitch

Posted on: January 6th, 2009 by History Month
>After a failed attempt to kill himself, it took guts for professional referee Nigel Owens to come out in the rough, tough world of rugby. But he was surprised by the reactions. Read the full Guardian article here. The (rather confused and confusing) article in the Telegraph can be...

Edward Carpenter: A Man Before His Time

Posted on: November 4th, 2008 by History Month
>Edward Carpenter was a radical socialist activist throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his writings, he tore into the decadent middle classes and capitalism with fervour. He supported feminism, vegetarianism and the environment, among other things. But he was an active, open, campaigning homosexual, with a...
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Harvey Milk and Gay Marriage

Posted on: November 2nd, 2008 by History Month
>Hollywood pays tribute to a gay hero. But 30 years on his legacy is in peril As a film about Harvey Milk is released, his battle for gay rights in the 1970s is being fought again over a proposition to ban same-sex marriages. On the day of the US...

Alan Bennett Gives Papers to Bodleian Library

Posted on: November 1st, 2008 by History Month
>Alan Bennett is to give a wealth of written work from nearly 50 years as an author and playwright to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Notes, drafts and scripts for all of his stage and TV plays were among the collection, the library said. There are also manuscripts...
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Transsexual Gene Link Identified

Posted on: October 31st, 2008 by History Month
>Australian researchers have identified a significant link between a gene involved in testosterone action and male-to-female transsexualism. DNA analysis from 112 male-to-female transsexual volunteers showed they were more likely to have a longer version of the androgen receptor gene. Read the full article on BBC News, click here.
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New Lesbian Lutheran Minister Ordained

Posted on: October 30th, 2008 by History Month
>Jodi Barry, an openly lesbian pastor, was ordained Saturday at the Grace University Lutheran Church in Minneapolis as part of the Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries efforts to test a new policy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church to avoid disciplining those who ordain openly gay people. Jodi Barry is not the...
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13% of Brits Have Had Same-Sex Experience

Posted on: October 29th, 2008 by History Month
>Sex Uncovered – The way we love now: Britain and sex in 2008, a survey published last week-end by The Observer reveals that while only six per cent of Britons define their sexual orientation as homosexual or bisexual, 13% of respondents have had a same sex experience in their...
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Pink Paper Readers’ Awards 2009

Posted on: October 27th, 2008 by History Month
>The Pink Paper has now opened the nominations for its Readers’ Awards 2009. The top five nominees in each category go to the final vote which goes live on pinkpaper.com on 13 November at 10am and finishes at 10am on 17 December. (The winners are announced on 8 January.)...
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Moments in History, Converging Anew

Posted on: October 26th, 2008 by History Month
>For American gay culture this month marks a doubly somber anniversary. Ten years ago, on Oct. 12, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, died in a Colorado hospital almost a week after two men viciously beat him and left him tied to a fence near Laramie, Wyo. That same...
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LGBT Museum in London Within 3 Years

Posted on: October 14th, 2008 by History Month
>It’s been in the pipeline since 2004 and earlier this year, an online version of the museum was launch by Proud Heritage, the organisation spear-heading the project. Now it seems that things are getting serious if one is to believe an article recently published in the Independent, where we...

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love

Posted on: October 8th, 2008 by History Month
>Edward Carpenter was the Victorian Morrissey, the English Walt Whitman – and the original vegetarian, sandal-wearing socialist. So why is this gloriously eccentric figure almost forgotten today? We could hazard the hypothesis that it is because he was gay and that gay lives have a habit of getting swept...
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Sir Cliff Richard Reveals Details of ‘close Friendship’ with Former Priest

Posted on: September 5th, 2008 by History Month 1 Comment
>Cliff Richard has just released his autobiography. The most reported bit of information the book is offering is that, after decades of speculations, Richards seems to finally be coming out in it, telling how he has lived for seven years with his “companion”, a former Catholic priest. He also...
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A True Life Murder Story

Posted on: August 26th, 2008 by History Month
>In the Spring issue of Granta, Tim Lott investigated the background to the macabre murder of his friend the film agent, Rod Hall. Hall was a well-known and popular London media figure, something of an aesthete and gourmand. He represented successful film writers such as Lee Hall (Billy Elliot),...

Dirk Bogarde’s Letters – Part Two

Posted on: August 10th, 2008 by History Month
>In public, Dirk Bogarde was shy, reserved, polite to a fault. But in private, he was far more entertaining. These extracts published in the Daily Telegraph from a new collection of his most intimate, wickedly funny personal letters, reveal Bogarde as he really was. Read the first selection of...

Dirk Bogarde’s Letters – Part One

Posted on: August 5th, 2008 by History Month
>In public, Dirk Bogarde was shy, reserved, polite to a fault. But in private, he was far more entertaining. In the first of two extracts published in the Daily Telegraph from a new collection of his most intimate, wickedly funny personal letters, we reveal Dirk as he really was....
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Heinz “Gay Kiss” Advert

Posted on: June 30th, 2008 by History Month
>Last week, the American food company Heinz decide to pull one of its adverts from the UK television screens after receiving complaints about its content. “It is our policy to listen to consumers. We recognise that some consumers raised concerns over the content of the ad and this prompted...
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Independent on Sunday Pink List 2008

Posted on: June 23rd, 2008 by History Month
>This week-end, the Independent on Sunday published this year’s list of the 100 most powerful gay and lesbian people in the UK. This year’s number one, who replaces Dr Who writer Russell T Davis, is another Mr Davis: Evan, the BBC’s former Economics Editor and since recently one of...
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Gay Brains Structured Like Those of the Opposite Sex

Posted on: June 17th, 2008 by History Month
>Brain scans have provided the most compelling evidence yet that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait. The scans reveal that in gay people, key structures of the brain governing emotion, mood, anxiety and aggressiveness resemble those in straight people of the opposite sex. The differences are...

Hidden Gay Hip-Hop Scene Revealed

Posted on: May 14th, 2008 by History Month 1 Comment
>Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times in the hip hop industry as a gay man. It is an explosive exposé of a thriving gay subculture in an aggressively male business, where anti-gay lyrics and public homophobia are...
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Islanders Want to Reclaim Lesbian Label

Posted on: May 7th, 2008 by History Month
>Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term “lesbian”. Read the full article here; see also Lesbos lawsuit “pathetic and scary” says activist
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Press Release: Department of Health Endorses the Month and Suggests Ideas

Posted on: April 2nd, 2008 by History Month
>LGBT History Month explains why equality is good for you with the support of the Department of Health, which runs the NHS, in a new addition to its expanding LGBT History Month website. In a number of informative pages we explain why safe spaces are essential to our health...
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Gays of the Day: LGBT History Month Steering Group.

Posted on: February 22nd, 2008 by History Month
>In a new regular feature, Neil and Debbie of GaydarRadio’s Breakfast Show speak to the community groups, associations, sports teams and LGBT companies making the world a better and generally more lovely place to live in for the LGBT community. Read the full interview of Paul Patrick, co-chair of...
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Gay Adverts Displayed Across Britain

Posted on: February 15th, 2008 by History Month
>For two weeks people across the country will be confronted with a positive message about gay people from 600 billboards. The advertising space in England, Scotland and Wales has been donated to gay equality organisation Stonewall by Titan Outdoor Advertising Ltd. The message – ‘Some people are gay. Get...
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The ‘Normal’ Test Is Not on the Syllabus

Posted on: February 9th, 2008 by History Month
>FEBRUARY is lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history month. It has been celebrated in the UK since 1997 and is based on the premise that, in order to understand the present and the future, the past must first be understood. In many ways, the...
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Written Out – The Portrayal of Gay People in the Scottish Press

Posted on: January 17th, 2008 by History Month
>Stonewall Scotland have just launched Written Out, a report into the portrayal of gay people in the Scottish Press. The research showed that while some papers are getting better, many still publish homophobic articles, use outdated stereotypes, draw unnecessary attention to people’s sexual orientation, and apply different news values...
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Press Release: Citizens Advice Sponsors LGBT History Month

Posted on: January 14th, 2008 by History Month
>Citizens Advice, the national network of charities, is proud to announce sponsorship of LGBT History Month in February 2008. LGBT History Month celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community, as well as the diversity of society as a whole. Founded and run by volunteers, LGBT History Month...
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Acting in Hollywood Is Like Living in Afghanistan

Posted on: December 18th, 2007 by History Month
>Jodie Foster’s recent discrete mention of her female partner during an acceptance speech, while putting an end to years of rumours ahs also created a media storm and reignited the debate about the paucity of openly out actors in Hollywood. In an article for The Times, Rupert Everett, one...
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Maggi Hambling – A Life in Pictures

Posted on: December 2nd, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
>After a lifetime of hell-raising, hard living and even harder drinking, one of Britain’s top female artists reflects on those things that have been closest to her and which are now gone – her parents, cherished friends such as George Melly, her trademark cigarette and, most touchingly, her lover...
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Pre-launch: Web Review

Posted on: November 30th, 2007 by History Month
>Below is a quick round up of what the internet has to say so far about our launch on Monday: Press* Lesbian, Gay History Month 2008 Launched – UK Gay News* Ministers praise LGBT History Month at launch event – PinkNews.co.uk* Attorney General backs homophobic incitement law – PinkNews.co.uk*...
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Jenny, Eric, Martin . . . and Me

Posted on: November 18th, 2007 by History Month
>Today marks the 4th year since the repeal of the infamous Section 28. The amendment to the Local Government Act which stated that a local authority “shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality” or “promote the teaching in any maintained school of...

Dumbledore’s Outing a Mixed Blessing

Posted on: October 25th, 2007 by History Month
>While crowds cheered last week at the announcement by JK Rowling that her character Dumbledore was gay, Time Magazine’s John Cloud feels a little more reserved about the news. After a quick overview of suggested gay characters in Sci-fi. Cloud wonders what the late outing means in his article...
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The Black Civil Rights, Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements

Posted on: October 4th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
>On 21 August 1970, Huey Newton, co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense published an article in “The Black Panther” newsletter. It was titled A Letter from Huey Newton to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters about the Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements and was...
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Press Release: LGBT History Month Celebrates Black History Month UK.

Posted on: September 30th, 2007 by History Month
>LGBT History Month is very proud to celebrate Black History Month, which takes place every October in the United Kingdom. Black History Month is now one of the cultural landmarks of British life. It seeks to celebrate the lives and achievements of black people everywhere, to give back to...
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Is Honesty the Best Policy?

Posted on: September 23rd, 2007 by History Month
>Come out to your colleagues and a class full of teenagers, or hide an important part of yourself and feel guilty. It’s a tough decision and it isn’t helped by some schools failing to tackle homophobic insults. Read Madeleine Brettingham’s article in the Times Education Supplement in full here.
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