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Homophobes are Closets: new evidence

Posted on: April 12th, 2012 by History Month
New studies suggest those who express virulent dislike of homosexuals may have an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex. Researchers also discovered homophobia is more pronounced in individuals who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires. The study is the first to document the role that both parenting and...

Professor Arthur Sullivan reviews a classic about Transition

Posted on: April 5th, 2012 by History Month
Dear Sir or Madam ( A Journey from Female to Male) by Mark Rees;, reviewed by Arthur Sullivan About half way through this account of his journey from female to male, Mark Rees remarks that “he most important part of the role change is the transsexual person’s acceptance by...

Out of the Blocks Takes us to the Future

Posted on: February 5th, 2012 by History Month
A new sports history timeline, Out of the Blocks, takes us on a tour of LGBT history in sport – from 14 AD to 2018 (yes – that’s 6 years in the future!) Thanks to Tony Bilton, we can now see how LGBT participation has always been a part of sport....

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...
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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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Past2Present Magazine: LGBT History Month 2011 Edition

Posted on: February 9th, 2011 by History Month
>Past2Present, the research magazine by Archus (The National Archives LGBT Group) & The Rainbow Network is out. This special edition tells you everything you need to know about the History Month 2011, why it is important and why it is to be celebrated. You can download a free copy...
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Rugby League Launches Anti-homophobia Guidance

Posted on: December 2nd, 2010 by History Month
>The Rugby Football league has published a guide to combat homophobia in the sport. The guide, entitled Guidance for Rugby League Clubs – Challenging anti gay (homophobic) abuse and behaviour (pdf – 3.1Mb), was recently launched in Parliament to widespread critical acclaim. It was produced with the support and...
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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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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Trade Unionists – Millthorpe Project

Posted on: June 28th, 2010 by History Month
>The first phase of a series of audio interviews carried out with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans trade unionists has been deposited with the British Library Sound Archive. These interviews have been carried out by the Millthorpe Project with support from the University and College Union (UCU) and the...
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In Memory of Leonard Matlovich

Posted on: June 23rd, 2010 by History Month
>Leonard Matlovich, a vietnam veteran and gay rights and AIDS activist died 22 years ago today. The epitaph he chose to mark his grave is still as fresh as today’s headlines: ‘When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge...
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Black British Lesbian History Project: Contributions and Volunteers Needed

Posted on: June 11th, 2010 by History Month
>Like so much of LGBT History the specific experience of black British lesbians is being lost. The books are out of print and the memories are fading for not always being shared. Nazmia Jamal has created a new online chronology to try and preserve this memory. The basis for...
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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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“They Want to Exterminate Us”

Posted on: August 19th, 2009 by History Month
>Harrowing reports about the torture and execution of LGBT people in Iraq are contained in a report by Human Rights Watch. The 67 page report, entitled They Want to Exterminate Us: Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq, shows through first hand accounts that LGBT people and “the...
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Stonewall Focuses on Bisexuals in the Workplace

Posted on: June 2nd, 2009 by History Month
>With the support of the Home Office and Spectrum, Stonewall is conducting some research into Bisexuals in the Workplace. It is running 4 focus groups this month in the UK, to which you are invited if you are bisexual and you work for a Stonewall Diversity Champion. Your contribution...
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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.
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New Website Gathers Oral History of “Treatment” Of Homosexuality

Posted on: March 26th, 2009 by History Month
>A website about the use of so-called “treatments” that aim to make homosexual people heterosexual was launched earlier this week. www.treatmentshomosexuality.org.uk is based on research funded by the Wellcome Trust from 2001 to 2004 into the oral history of such treatments in Britain since 1950 and gathers together oral...
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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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New Toolkit on Transphobic Bullying in Schools

Posted on: October 28th, 2008 by History Month
>The British Home Office has commissioned the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) to develop a toolkit for combating transphobic bullying in schools. GIRES has consulted widely in preparing this material and has already incorporated most of the good suggestions generated by that process into the current version...
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Love Thy Neighbour – Homosexuality and Faith

Posted on: August 14th, 2008 by History Month
>Many faith leaders inadequately reflect their followers’ religious objections to lesbian and gay sexuality, new research has found. Love Thy Neighbour – published by Stonewall and based on interviews with Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Christian participants from across the north of England – found that many hold significantly more...

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...
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Absolut Rainbow

Posted on: August 7th, 2008 by History Month
>To mark the 30th anniversary of the Rainbow flag, Absolut vodka have released a limited edition of 311,000 bottles sporting rainbow colours. The bottle, which also features a message in support of diversity, comes with a cocktail recipe book with an introduction by Gilbert Baker, the San Fransisco activist...

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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Publication of European Report on Homophobia and Transphobia – Part 1

Posted on: July 3rd, 2008 by History Month
>The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has just released the first part of a report on the state of Homosexual Rights in the 27 member states of the Union. The FRA, which is based in Vienna, was inaugurated on March 1, 2007. It is the successor to...
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Teachers TV Tackles Homophobia

Posted on: May 28th, 2008 by History Month
>For Tackling Homophobia Week, Teachers TV is airing a series of programmes which look at how schools can effectively support LGBT staff and students. Using personal stories the programmes highlight some of the issues young people and adults encounter at school because they are gay. These programmes and more...
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Losing Orton in the Archives

Posted on: May 10th, 2008 by History Month
>The tangled history of the papers of the playwright Joe Orton is unwoven by Dr. Matt Cook who reveals the extraordinary sources that survive on the writer’s life and the perhaps even more extraordinary ones that remain stubbornly missing. This recording is available here (right to save the file)...
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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online

Posted on: April 28th, 2008 by History Month
>The fully searchable accounts of thousands of trials from 1834 to 1913 have gone online today, thus completing the project of making the records of the Old Bailey available over the Internet. The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of...
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Are You Irish, Gay and in London?

Posted on: March 31st, 2008 by History Month
>Researchers at the University of Essex are looking for participants to take part in a research study which aims to investigate the experiences of Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people living in London for more than 5 years. There is a long history of Irish migration to...
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Online Film Directory

Posted on: March 4th, 2008 by History Month
>A list of gay-themed films available to view online together with the links to view them can be found here. The website also offers link to mainstream films, TV shows, music and sport videos, and documentaries.
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Social Enterprise Tackles Discrimination in Wales

Posted on: February 18th, 2008 by History Month
>Last week saw a landmark ruling for all LGBT people, especially those living and working in Wales after the Bishop of Hereford was made to pay £47,345 in compensation to John Reaney, the gay man who brought a claim of discrimination claim against him. The case of John Reaney,...
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BBC MemoryShare – The Days of Our Lives

Posted on: February 8th, 2008 by History Month
>BBC Memoryshare is a web service that aims at piecing together an intriguing People’s History of Britain. You can post a memory or observation relating to any day from the 1st January 1900 to the present day. You can also comment on other people’s memories. You can share any...

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Posted on: January 12th, 2008 by History Month
>Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a new documentary examining manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and gender violence prevention educator, conceived the documentary as a “loving critique” of a number of disturbing trends in the world of...
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Truman Capote Reads “A Christmas Memory”

Posted on: December 31st, 2007 by History Month
>Below is a link to a recording of Truman Capote reading his short story A Christmas Memory. It shows a very different Truman Capote from the one depicted in the film Capote; a sensitive and caring Capote; the one who wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms and The Grass Harp....
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Civil Partnership, Another Year on – A Study

Posted on: December 10th, 2007 by History Month
>This December marks the second anniversary of Civil Partnerships in the UK. For occasion, Citizens Advice investigates the impact and unforeseen consequences of the Civil Partnership Act 2005 in a new report entitled “Another Year On”. The Citizens Advice service is a network of independent charities that helps people...
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First Gay Rights March in Britain

Posted on: November 28th, 2007 by History Month
>27th November marked 37 years since the first ever public gay rights protest in Britain took place on Highbury Fields in London. It had been organised by the 150 members of the then newly formed British Gay Liberation Front. A plaque put up by OutRage commemorates the event and...
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Camden Community Radio Reports on the Month

Posted on: November 19th, 2007 by History Month
>In February 2007, the Camden LGBT Forum organised an event for almost every day of the month. Ben Cooper of the Camden Community Radio went along to the official launch of History Month in Camden, “Out in Camden 3″, on 12 February. There he met up with the organisers...
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New Research on the Deportation of French Gay Men During WWII

Posted on: November 14th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
>On 7 November, the French association Le Mémorial de la Déportation Homosexuelle (MDH) published the results of historical researches by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation (FMD) on deportations for homosexuality in WWII France. Although deportation for such reason was quite rare and not as systematic as...
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Some People Are Gay…

Posted on: November 10th, 2007 by History Month
>Education for All aims to tackle anti-gay bullying in Britain’s schools. Click on the image to find out more.www.stonewall.org.uk/getoverit See also the clumsily titled: Torchwood star backs homophobic bullying campaign
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Reflections on Gay History

Posted on: November 3rd, 2007 by History Month
>The launch of the LGBT History Month 2006 took place in November 2005 at the Empress State Building in West London under the aegis of the Metropolitan Police Service. Among the speakers who took part in the launch, Rictor Norton, writer and historian of gay culture, spoke about the...
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Batty Man

Posted on: October 26th, 2007 by History Month
>Comedian and actor Stephen K Amos uses his own experiences as a black gay man to explore why homophobia still exists in his own community. This observational documentary by Channel 4 learning – the title of which is a derogatory term for homosexuals – follows Amos on a journey...
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Black Same Gender Loving Filmography

Posted on: October 18th, 2007 by History Month
>As part of our celebration of Black History Month, we are proud to make available the word of Rod Patrick Risbrook (aka Big Rod), an aspiring filmmaker and student at the film department of New York University. Gathering information on 118 films and illustrated by film posters and stills,...
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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...

LGBT Books on Google

Posted on: September 26th, 2007 by History Month
>Google, the much used search engine also offer a book search facility. Publishers can make available online sections of books or even complete books for Google users to search. There is also a Library Project which makes available and searchable the catalogues of major libraries. There are of course...

Bugger the High Seas!

Posted on: September 19th, 2007 by History Month
>Avast, me hearties! Arrr! Today of all days be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. If we hear any complain’ from ye scallywags, ye’ll be walkin’ the plank! Here’s a coupla nice pieces of booty for ye, lubbers: We, Gentlemen o’ fortune be among the most romanticised and fabled...
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LGBT on TV: 16th Sept. – 21st Sept.

Posted on: September 16th, 2007 by History Month
>We are trying a new service on this blog. We have decided to put together and bring you a weekly round up of the upcoming LGBT programmes on television. Films Sunday 16th Sept Sky Movies Comedy -11.00pm – The BirdcageSky Movies Classic – 12.45am – A Taste of Honey...
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What’s Gay on the Radio: 15th Sep. – 21st Sep.

Posted on: September 15th, 2007 by History Month
>We are trying a new service on this blog. We have decided to put together and bring you a weekly round up of the upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio. Some of the programmes listed below will remain available for listen again from the BBC’s website. Sat 15th Sept...
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A New Life for Gay People in Britain Began on That Day

Posted on: September 12th, 2007 by History Month
>When I grew up, to be homosexual seemed a life sentence to shame. A brave report 50 years ago paved the way for change. Julian Mitchell, author of the screenplays for Wilde and several episodes of Inspector Morse as well as the play Another Country, which was later made...
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Two Gay Heroes of 9/11

Posted on: September 11th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
>Even six years after the event, the terrorist attacks on the New York City and Washington are still having repercussions in many countries around the world. Even today, the American Congress is holding a hearing on the developments of one of the two wars which are consequences of those...
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Towards Further Recognition of the Deportation of Homosexuals in France

Posted on: September 8th, 2007 by History Month
>After many years of campaigning by various LGBT organisations (such as le Mémorial de la déportation homosexuelle, les Flamands roses, l’Inter-LGBT or Homosexualités et socialisme), France is about to take another step towards the recognition of the deportation of homosexuals during the Second World War. On 26 avril 2001,...
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Are Civil Unions a 600-Year-Old Tradition?

Posted on: September 4th, 2007 by History Month
>Sharing “one bread, one wine, and one purse”: The history of brotherment A compelling new study from the September issue of the Journal of Modern History reviews historical evidence, including documents and gravesites, suggesting that homosexual civil unions may have existed six centuries ago in France. The article is...
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Andy Warhol in Edinburgh

Posted on: August 28th, 2007 by History Month
>Andy Warhol died on 22 February 1987. To mark the twentieth anniversary of his death, the National Gallery of Scotland is holding the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work ever shown in Scotland. Andy Warhol, A Celebration of Life… and Death aims to show how a life/death duality...
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Heritage Trail in Manchester

Posted on: August 22nd, 2007 by History Month
>To mark Pride week-end in Manchester, the Out in the Past trail explores the twists and turns of over 200 years of lesbian and gay history and takes in many of Manchester’s concealed secrets. Learn how the resolve and courage of so many pioneering citizens resulted in a number...
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Gay America Timeline

Posted on: July 31st, 2007 by History Month
>To mark Pride 2007 in the city, the San Francisco Sentinel has published a timeline of events in American gay history from the beginning of the 20th century. The timeline brings to the fore the contributions to mainstream culture made by LGBT people but also highlights the gradual changes...
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Serious Serendipity

Posted on: July 24th, 2007 by History Month
>Serendipity is like a benevolent fairy godmother for many a gay man looking for his roots. The fact that our history as a group has been so carefully hidden and pushed into the proverbial closet for so long makes any new discovery like a victory, even if that very...
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Flared Brightly, Died Young – The AIDS Generation

Posted on: July 17th, 2007 by History Month
>A two-part documentary recalling the gay culture of Thatcher’s Britain and the emergence of HIV and AIDS. In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and AIDS was incubating. At the same time, a whole generation was ‘coming out’ to the world and announcing they were gay. But, for so...
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James Baldwin – The Price of the Ticket

Posted on: July 16th, 2007 by History Month
>In 1953, James Baldwin, a hard-up writer in Paris, published the extraordinary novel Go Tell it on the Mountain. Four years later he sailed home to the United States to immerse himself in the civil rights movement. Caryl Phillips explores the historic consequences of his return. British writer Caryl...
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Gay Poem Still Contrary to ‘Law of the Land’

Posted on: July 11th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
>Today marks the 30th anniversary of the day when Denis Lemon, the editor of the now defunct but iconic UK newspaper Gay News, was found guilty of committing libel against Christianity. Mary Whitehouse, founder of the National Viewers and Listeners Association, (NVLA) announced her intention to sue Gay News...
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The Long Road to Decriminalisation

Posted on: July 10th, 2007 by History Month
>40 years ago this month, a campaiging Welsh Labour MP by the name of Leo Abse managed to guide a Bill through both Houses of Parliament. By a combination of smart tactics and appealing to politicians to pity those ‘less fortunate’ than themselves, he got them to agree to...

Meek 60′s

Posted on: July 9th, 2007 by History Month
>1967 was undeniably an important year for gay rights. The change in the law however came too late for some. On 3 February of that year, the pioneer record producer and songwriter, Joe Meek killed himself, aged 37. Arguably he was mentally ill, suffering from paranoia. His homosexuality, at...
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Beautiful Things

Posted on: July 2nd, 2007 by History Month
>From 6 July 2007, anyone visiting the revamped home of the British Film Institute on the Southbank in London will be able to view an extraordinary diversity of films and TV programmes exploring queer identities across the last century. In the dark old days of British film and television...
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Press for Change Podcasts

Posted on: June 26th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
>From the Press for Change website: As readers will know, I am a keen promoter of online audio content as an innovative way of making events and people’s ideas widely accessible within communities like ours. We recently made the whole of the 2007 SOGIAG Stakeholder Conference available in this...
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Cleaning Out the Camp

Posted on: June 21st, 2007 by History Month
>On 21 and 28 June at 8pm, BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a two part programme where Eddie Mair investigates the attitude and policy of the armed services towards homosexuality over the last 60 years. Part One (21 June)The laissez-faire attitude during the Second World War quickly gave way...
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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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Allan Horsfall

Posted on: June 15th, 2007 by History Month
>Allan Horsfall is a veteran campaigner and a part of our collective history. In 1964 he co-founded the North-West Homosexual Law Reform Committee with Colin Harvey which later became the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). Allan spoke at the pre-launch of LGBT History Month 2007 at the TUC headquarters...
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History Month Flyer

Posted on: June 12th, 2007 by History Month
>A new flyer promoting History Month and highlighting ways to get involved is now available in pdf format for download and e-mail distribution. The flyer is not date specific and will therefore be usable over the coming years. You can view the file here (pdf file – 154kb) or...
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Photo Pool

Posted on: June 7th, 2007 by History Month
> We want your pictures. We have created a photo pool for you to share pictures of the events you have organise or any other pictures you thing may interest other friends of History Month (Note that you will need to create a free Yahoo!/flickr account to be able...
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Siegfried Sassoon – The Poet Who Survived

Posted on: June 7th, 2007 by History Month
> In Our Time, presented by Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4) discusses the life of First World War poet, Siegfried Sassoon. In 1916 the Military Cross was awarded to a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers for “conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy’s trenches”. The citation noted...
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Greek and Roman Love Poetry – The Pursuit of the Beloved from Sappho to Catullus

Posted on: June 7th, 2007 by History Month 1 Comment
> In Our Time, presented by Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio 4) discusses the work of the poetess Sappho. Greek and Roman love poetry – the source of many of the images and metaphors of love that have survived in literature through the centuries. We begin with the words of...
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