We are very excited to announce that the national pre-launch event for LGBT History Month 2010 will be taking place at the British Museum on 19 November 2009.
Timed to be a part of Anti-Bullying Week, this will be a whole day event in three parts:
In the morning, local school pupils will learn about objects in the Museum with relevant LGBT themes.
The afternoon session, teachers, youth workers and other practitioners, will provide inspiration and practical suggestions as to how your school, educational institution, pupils, students and service users can share in LGBT History Month.
The formal pre-launch in the evening will be an opportunity for networking, and to hear from prominent speakers including Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Rt. Hon. Ben Bradshaw MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, and Michael Cashman MEP.
For more information, to sign up for the event or if you would like to present your work during the afternoon session, please download our booking form (Word document).
Friday, July 17, 2009
National Pre-Launch of LGBT History Month 2010 Announced
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Bulletin No 62
The latest edition of the LGBT History Month bulletin is now available, as usual packed-full of news, information, notices of upcoming events and quotations.
To access the latest bulletin please click on one of the links below:
word document
pdf file
You can view all previous bulletins here or register to our mailing list here.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Independent on Sunday Pink List 2009
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 list here and then by clicking on the picture of Lord Mandelson.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Stonewall at the Southbank
It's 40 years this summer since the Stonewall Riots marked the symbolic birth of gay liberation.
But what really happened at those events in New York in June 1969 - and what did they mean for lesbian and gay people in the UK?
Join a line-up of experts, performers and witnesses including Professor Jeffrey Weeks, Lindsay River, Rikki Beadle-Blair and Michael Twaits for an exploration of gay history's most significant anniversary.
Stonewall 40
Thursday 16 July 2009, 7.45pm
Purcell Room
Southbank Centre
website
Sunday, July 12, 2009
LGBTHM Co-Chair Honoured With Community Award
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 Humanist Association (GALHA) and the 40th anniversary of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE).
The event was taking place at the Bishopsgate Institute in the City of London, which is now host to the GALHA archive. Derek Lennard, a member of GALHA and UK coordinator for International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), opened the evening and talked about the crucial role of combating religious fundamentalism in the crusade for human rights.
Michael Cashman, MEP, president of the European Parliament’s LGBT Intergroup and vice president of GALHA, and Peter Tatchell also spoke.
Tatchell gave a history of the Gay Liberation Front - describing its direct action approach, its grass roots, anti-imperialist ideology and its anarchic sexual libertarianism, while Cashman announced the arrival of LGBT History Month Europe in 2010. Although he talked about the past, he also warned of the future, given that the European Parliament has moved to the right.
Sue holding her award in front of a small exhibition of material from the GALHA archive (photo by Nicolas Chinardet)
Commenting on her award, Sue said: "It's a real honour to receive this award from GALHA. We're two of the oldest groups in the community.
"I want to pay tribute to everyone who's been involved in Schools Out over the years. Without their work, we wouldn't be the successful organisation we are today. In particular, this award should equally have gone to Paul Patrick, our other co-founder, who sadly died last year.
"When I helped set up the London Gay Teachers' Group, in 1974, I never dreamt it would be so successful, or that I'd still be chairing.
"It's been a rollercoaster of a ride, through the dark ages of Section 28 to the phenomenal success of our current project, LGBT History Month.
"This year's Downing Street reception for LGBT History Month was an obvious highlight, but it means the world to receive an award from an organisation I've got so much respect for.
"GALHA has always been a vocal opponent of anyone abusing religious privilege, to promote homophobia and transphobia in schools. I wish them a fantastic anniversary celebration and look forward to the next 30 years, campaigning alongside them."
Read more about the event on UK Gay News here.
View Sue's acceptance speech below:
Saturday, July 11, 2009
LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 11th - 17th July
We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.
Enjoy!
Owt on’t’telly?
A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
TV
New
On Saturday, Jonathan Ross at 1.05am BBC1 has Rufus Wainwright on his new opera Prima Donna. The Supersizers Eat… their way through the Twenties on BBC2 at 9pm Monday. Shameless series 6 on E4 at 10pm.
Ongoing
One L and a G and 2 Bs on BB on C4. Will Charlie do a Geordie Brian Dowling and win? Will Charlie and Roderigo get over themselves and sort themselves out in a quiet corner? Is anyone ever going to vote Marcus the caveman out?Totally Saturday on Saturday night at 6.15pm is hosted by Graham Norton. Alan Carr’s Chatty Man repeated on C4at 11.05 on the same evening; trying to camp it out with Dawn French and David Walliams. Usually there’s some LGBT content on The Big Questions on BBC1 on Sunday morning at 10am. Stephen Fry as the eponymous Peter Kingdom on ITV1 Sunday at 9pm. Alan Carr hosts his own show Chatty Man at 10pm C4.Lesbian cop and references to sexual orientation in gritty Baltimore police drama The Wire on BBC2 11.20 Tuesday. Ugly Betty on C4 at 10pm Wednesday and Skins at 11. Psychoville at 10pm on BBC2 Thursday. C4 repeats Derren Brown’s Trick or Treat 11.45pm Thursday. QI on Dave at 9.
Ellen is on Fiver every weekday morning at 6. Will & Grace 9 and Come Dine with Me at 5.30pm on C4.
Films
Mamma Mia at 8pm Saturday on Comedy. Rocky Horror on Indie at 11.40pm Sunday. Hairspray 8pm Monday Comedy. Doctor at Large with Dirk Bogarde at 1.30pm on C4 Wednesday. On the same day in the evening, there’sJodie Foster in Anna and the King on Film4 at 6.10pm, X-Men on Action/Thriller at 7.10 and St Trinians on Comedyat 8. Boys Don’t Cry on Indie at midnight Friday evening.
Radio
Please also note that Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour contains a lot of relevant content and is generally LGBT friendly, but a lot of its output is not available to us before we put this on the site. For the latest Woman’s Hour stuff, subscribe to the programme's newsletter here.
Saturday 11th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton. 1955 & 1988. Dusty Springfield and Tracy Chapman
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis.
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: The Moral Maze. The Bishop of Rochester and his anti-gay caucus
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Walking with Whitman. Annual Lancashire ramble in honour of Walt Whitman
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
Sunday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. Lively words and music show
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past
BBC Radio 5 Live - 9pm: Gay Life after Saddam. Hoisted from the schedules last week by Wimbledon, this essential listening is now a week late. As the title suggests, it is a documentary on the appalling situation for LGBT people in Iraq. It also highlights the Home Office’s intransigence over their plight. Made in Manchester
BBC Radio 7 - 8pm: Vanity Fair. Narrated by Stephen Fry
Monday 13th
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: Disco Classics with Dave Pearce
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon. Jeannette Winterson on what the moon means to us
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: Trading on HIV. Shocking investigation into the recreational use of anti-retroviral drugs and their subsequent ineffectiveness
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: On the Town with the League of Gentlemen
Tuesday 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Angel of Harlem: The Billie Holliday Story
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: The Grand Masquerade. Tribute to Kit Williams Masquerade, published 30 years ago
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon. Jeannette Winterson on what the moon means to us
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Arthur Smith’s Balham Bash. Guests Stephen K. Amos
Wednesday 15th
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: In Living Memory. The Contraceptive Train. How the Irish Women’s movement smuggled thousand of contraceptives from Belfast to Dublin in 1971. It was their equivalent of the Stonewall Riots.
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon. Jeannette Winterson on what the moon means to us
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. Aggressive debate that often touches on LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Act Your Age. Stephen K Amos guests
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Kenny Everett’s Radio Days
Thursday 16th
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: The Comedy Hour. Features Scott Capurro
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Does the Team Think. Guests Rhona Cameron
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon. Jeannette Winterson on what the moon means to us
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30pm: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
Friday 17th
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon. Jeannette Winterson on what the moon means to us
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word. Weekly obit.
BBC Radio 4 - 9: The Inconstant Moon. Jeannette Winterson on what the moon means to us. Omnibus
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne
Local
For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.
Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/
GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.
Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr
BBC Radio Manchester - 95.1 and online
Every Monday 8pm: The Gay Hour, Ashley Byrne and Andrew Edwards
BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard
Gaydar Radio - Brighton, London DAB and online 24/7
Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk
FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net
www.pinkeradio.com
Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
A Meeting with Kate Craig-Wood
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.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Shi Pei Pu Dies
Shi Pei Pu on Wikipedia
Obituaries:
- Shi Pei Pu, Singer, Spy and ‘M. Butterfly,’ Dies at 70, New York Times
- Shi Pei Pu, Daily Telegraph
Saturday, July 4, 2009
37 Years of Pride London in Pictures
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.
LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 4th - 10th July
We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.
Enjoy!
Owt on’t’telly?
A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
TV
New
Sacha Baron Cohen: New Hero of Comedy on Channel 4 at 10.30pm on Saturday. Stephen Fry cameos on Top Gear at 8pm Sunday on BBC2. It’s Torchwood week on BBC1 from Monday to Friday in an ongoing story at 9pm every night. The Supersizers Eat… their way through the French Revolution on BBC2 at 9pm Monday. Imagine onBBC1 at 10.35pm Tuesday follows Rufus Wainwright.
Ongoing
One L and a G and 2 Bs on BB on C4. Totally Saturday on Saturday night at 6.30pm is hosted by Graham Norton. Alan Carr’s Chatty Man repeated on C4 at 11.35 on the same evening. Stephen Fry as the eponymous PeterKingdom on ITV1 Sunday at 9pm. Alan Carr hosts his own show Chatty Man at 10pm C4. Ugly Betty on C4 at 10pm Wednesday and Skins at 11 on Wednesday. On Thursday, Matt Lucas in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire on BBC2 at 9pm followed by Psychoville at 10. C4 repeats Derren Brown’s Trick or Treat 11.45pm Thursday. The Newsnight Review is having a a gay special on Friday on BBC2 at 11pm.
Usually there’s some LGBT content on The Big Questions on BBC1 on Sunday morning at 10am. Ellen is on Fiver every weekday morning at 6. Will & Grace 9 and Come Dine with Me at 5.30pm on C4.
Films
St Trinians with Rupert Everett on Comedy at 10pm on Saturday. La Vie en Rose on Indie Monday at 2pm and 11.30. Boys Don’t Cry at 10pm on Indie Tuesday. Challenging 80s cult movie My Beautiful Laundrette onWednesday Film4 1.25am. On Friday there’s X-Men on Action/Thriller at 11.05pm.
Radio
Please also note that Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour contains a lot of relevant content and is generally LGBT friendly, but a lot of its output is not available to us before we put this on the site. For the latest Woman’s Hour stuff, subscribe to the programme's newsletter here.
Saturday 4th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton. 1976 & 1990
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: Feelin’ Love: The Donna Summer Story. Profile of the perplexing gay icon
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig’s back
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis.
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: The Reith Lectures. Michael Sandel on citizenship
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
Sunday 5th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. Lively words and music show
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Walking with Whitman. Annual Lancashire ramble in honour of Walt Whitman
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Dave’s Friends in the North. Two-parter looking at why the Tories can’t cut the mustard north of Watford. Features Alan Duncan
BBC Radio 5Live - 7pm: Gay Life After Saddam
BBC Radio 7 - 8pm: Vanity Fair. Narrated by Stephen Fry
Monday 6th
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: Disco Classics with Dave Pearce
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: On the Town with the League of Gentlemen
Tuesday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: All of Me: The Betrayal of Billie Holliday
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30: Marc Riley’s Musical Time Machine. Brian Epstein
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Stalin’s Nemesis. Trotsky’s exile, including his stay with Frida Kahlo
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Morris and the Muslims. William Morris
Wednesday 8th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Stalin’s Nemesis. Trotsky’s exile, including his stay with Frida Kahlo
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. Tonight LGBT rights vs religion
Thursday 9th
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30pm: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
Friday 10th
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne
BBC Radio 7 - 9: Vanity Fair. Narrated by Stephen Fry
BBC Radio 7 - 11: Saturday Night Fry
Local
For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.
Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/
GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.
Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr
BBC Radio Manchester - 95.1 and online
Every Monday 8pm: The Gay Hour, Ashley Byrne and Andrew Edwards
BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard
Gaydar Radio - Brighton, London DAB and online 24/7
Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk
FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net
www.pinkeradio.com
Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org
