19 Years of LGBT Video History Preserved

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.

Call for LGBT Young People to ‘Re-Write History’

Young LGBT people will get a chance to ‘re-write’ modern British history to include the role of the LGBT movement as part of a new project.

The ‘Re-Writing History’ project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is looking for twelve young people aged 13-25 to investigate LGBT struggles and achievements over the past 50 years and how these affect their lives today. Based in or around London, they will have a unique opportunity to interview key figures from the gay rights movement, as well as grassroots level community activists and other ‘unsung heroes’.

At the end of the project, the young people will share what they have learnt about LGBT history by creating and designing a DVD to be used as a peer education tool in schools across the UK. They will also have the opportunity to present their findings at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2010.

If you are interested, please contact Naira Antoun on (020) 7803 1668, or email naira.antoun@tht.org.uk. There will be a preliminary session for those interested in taking part on Sunday 9th August.

The ‘Re-Writing History’ project is a partnership between Terrence Higgins Trust, Stonewall, Schools Out/LGBT History Month, the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival at the BFI, and the UK LGBT Health Summit.

Harvey Milk to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Barack Obama plans to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Harvey Milk, one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials. The award will be accepted at a White House ceremony August 12 by Stuart Milk, the nephew of the late San Francisco Supervisor and civil rights activist.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the country's highest honour for a civilian and was created to honour especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, or cultural or other significant public or private endeavours. Those are the first medals to be awarded by Obama.

Stuart Milk said, “The President's action today touches the core of our very human hearts and my uncle would be so proud of this high honour. His election was, for him, a beginning--a chance to make real change. That change is happening, but we still have so far to go. I hope this recognition inspires LGBT Americans everywhere to heed Harvey's call to run for office, to serve openly, to live proudly with authenticity and to demand the equality that we all deserve.”

American tennis great Billy Jean King, who is openly lesbian, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who has championed LGBT equality throughout his political career, also will receive the Congressional Medal of Honor at the August 12 ceremony. Kennedy was honoured by the Victory Fund in 2004 with its Oates-Shrum Leadership Award in recognition of his work on behalf of LGBT Americans.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland and current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, both also defenders of LGBT rights, are also on the list of 16 recipients announced by the White House.

Other names on the list are:
- Nancy Goodman Brinker, the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s leading breast cancer grass roots organisation;
- Dr. Pedro Jose Greer, the founder of Camillus Health Concern, an agency that provides medical care to over 10,000 homeless patients a year in the city of Miami;
- Stephen Hawking, the internationally-recognised theoretical physicist;
- Jack Kemp, who passed away in May 2009 after serving as a U.S. Congressman (1971 – 1989), Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1989 – 1993), and Republican Nominee for Vice President (1996) and led the Buffalo Bills to American Football League championships in 1964 and 1965;
- The Reverend Joseph Lowery, a leader in the U.S. civil rights movement since the early 1950s;
- Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, the last living Plains Indian war chief;
- Justice Sandra O’Connor, the first woman ever to sit on the United States Supreme Court;
- groundbreaking actor Sidney Poitier;
- Actress Chita Rivera;
- Janet Davison Rowley, M.D;
- Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a global leader in anti-poverty efforts.

In his announcement President Obama said, “These outstanding men and women represent an incredible diversity of backgrounds. Their tremendous accomplishments span fields from science to sports, from fine arts to foreign affairs. Yet they share one overarching trait: Each has been an agent of change. Each saw an imperfect world and set about improving it, often overcoming great obstacles along the way.

“Their relentless devotion to breaking down barriers and lifting up their fellow citizens sets a standard to which we all should strive. It is my great honor to award them the Medal of Freedom.”

Michael Causer’s Murder to Be Remembered this Weekend

To mark the first anniversary of the murder of Michael Causer, there will be a respectful gathering to remember all victims of persecution on Sunday August 2nd, at the Memorial Stone, in St Johns Gardens (behind St. Georges Hall), Liverpool.

People are meeting at 12.00 noon. At 12.30, one year on from the exact moment of Michael's death, there will be a minute's silence, and friends and family are invited to speak about Michael, and what he meant to them.

Afterwards, while some will probably go to the bars in the gay quarter, a Music on the Waterfront event will take place at the Pier Head which could very well be the weekend and venue for Liverpool Pride 2010.

Lazy Sunday Afternoon (1 to 4pm) is an afternoon of jazzy bluesy niceness produced by some of Liverpool's finest players, supported by world music performers. For more information about Music on the Waterfront, please visit Liverpool Council's website here.

Queer Films Season at the PCC

The Prince Charles Cinema, London's West End's cheapest cinema, will be celebrating LGBT films throughout August. On Monday nights, they will be screening a selection of five classic films selected by the audience.

This is chance to see again on a big screen such old favorites as The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert (3rd), Before Night Falls (10th), Aimee & Jaguar (17th), Beautiful Thing (14th) and My Beautiful Laundrette (31st).

For more information visit: www.princecharlescinema.com

Soldier Magazine Celebrates 10 Years of LGBT Soldiers

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 inteview with Tpr Wharton can be read here. The magazine also features an article about Helen and Elspeth De Montes-Davis, two partnered captains with careers as health professionals. The article can be found here.

The whole issue of the magzine can be viewed online here

Surrey investigates its gay history

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 evidence of gay life.

They are aiming to put an exhibition together on the county's hidden history, in time for LGBT history month in February.

Read the full story on PinkNews here.

Merce Cunningham Dies

Merce Cunningham

1919 - 2009

Pioneering choreographer, Merce Cunningham, has died aged 90.

Obituary:
- Revolutionary choreographer Merce Cunningham dies at 90, LA Times
- Merce Cunningham on Wikipedia

Mark Leduc Dies

Mark Leduc

1962 - 2009

Olympic medalist, boxer and gay rights campaigner, Mark Leduc, has died of a heat stroke. He was 47.

Obituary:
- Mark Leduc, 47: Gay athlete, Olympic medallist, The Star
- Mark Leduc on Wikipedia

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 25h - 31st 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
Alan Carr hosts his own show Chatty Man at 10pm Sunday on C4. Guests include Barbara Windsor and Rupert Everett. Monday’s a good night. ITV1’s second helping of Corrie at 8.30 is written by Jonathan Harvey. The Supersizers Eat… their way through Ancient Rome on BBC2 at 9pm. This involves eating things that most of us would drive away from in a fast car. Also at 9 on 4 Rupert Everett follows the trail of the revolutionary bisexual romantic Byron in The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron. Alan Yentob finishes Imagine on BBC1 Tuesday evening 10.35pm.
Lindsay Lohan makes a cameo appearance in Wednesday’s Ugly Betty on 4 at 10pm. Also on Wednesday, Sky Arts 1 starts Theatre Live! with an intro by Sandi Tiksvig at 9pm. Stephen Fry guests on Never Mind the Buzzcocks onBBC2 at 9.30pm Thursday. Torchwood repeated on BBC3 at 9pm Friday. Pet Shop Boys at the O₂ Arena C4 12.15am Friday.

Ongoing
One L and 2 Gs and 2 Bs on BB on C4. The Wire 11.20pm Tuesday and Wednesday on BBC2. Ugly Betty on C4 at10pm Wednesday and Skins at 11 on Wednesday. On Thursday, Psychoville winds up at 10 on BBC2. A repeat ofQI, hosted by Stephen Fry, is on BBC2 at 10pm Friday.
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. Come Dine with Me at 5.30pm on C4. Dr Who on BBC3 every evening at 7, QIon Dave and Will & Grace on Living every day.

Films
X Men on Action/Thriller at 7.10pm Sunday. Mamma Mia 8pm Comedy.
Homo-erotic overtones in Goodbye Charlie Bright on BBC1 at 11.35pm Monday.
Almadóvar’s All about My Mother on Tuesday 11.10pm (and 1.15am Friday) Film4. X2 on ITV2 Wednesday at 9pm. St. Trinians on Comedy 8pm Thursday. Indie airs The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 11.55pm Friday.

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 25th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops 68 and 87
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini’s US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live, features an asexual man
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 1.10pm: Any Questions. Tatchell v Hitchens
BBC Radio 4 - 8: Archive on 4: On Northern Men. Kay Mellor examines how northern men are portrayed in the media – including the gay ones
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: The Moral Maze. Rottweilers’ debate

Sunday 26th
BBC Radio 2 - 11am: Elaine Page. With West End show tunes and guests
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 - 7.45pm: Blake’s Doors of Perception. Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a metaphor for Hampstead Heath, where Morris discovers his true self.
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Film Programme: interview with Sylvia Syms who discussing her part in the seminal 1961 film, Victim.

Monday 27th
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: Disco Classics with Dave Pearce
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Archive on 4 - On Northern Men. Rpt
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Guitarists. Mark Knopfler
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins guests
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Hairspray and Harmonies. Kit Hesketh Harvey stalks the Ladies Barbershop Quartet contest
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: On the Town with the League of Gentlemen

Tuesday 28th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30am: Musical Migrants: From New York to Rio
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Guitarists. Bonny Raitt
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Hairspray and Harmonies. Kit Hesketh Harvey stalks the Ladies Barbershop Quartet contest

Wednesday 29th
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Guitarists. John Williams
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. Aggressive debate that often touches on LGBT issues

Thursday 30th
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Guitarists. Russell Lissack. I’ve never heard of him either

Friday 31st
BBC Radio 2 - 7pm: The Movie that Changed My Life. Siouxsie Sioux on Psycho
BBC Radio 2 - 7.30: Friday Night is Music Night. Judy garland Night. With John Barrowman
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: Claudia Winkleman. With Richard O’Brien
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Guitarists. Bert Jansch
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
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

Anthony Blunt's Memoir Goes Public

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 to the moment of his unmasking.

Following his death in 1983, the memoir was anonymously donated to the British Library on condition that it not be made available for 25 years, a restriction that has now expired. However, the manuscript can only be seen by registered Readers through the Manuscripts Reading Room, one person at the time. Furthermore the copyright status of the document is unknown which means that it cannot be reproduced.

Find out more:
- Blunt reveals a spy's life from beyond the grave, Reuters
- Anthony Blunt memoir reveals spy's regret at 'the biggest mistake of my life', the Guardian
- Blunt’s memoir is a sorry tale of regret, but not remorse, Timesonline
- Anthony Blunt memoir becomes available in British Library Reading Rooms - Press release, British Library

Rosalie Davies Dies

Rosalie Davies

1939 - 2009

A British-born attorney who spent decades fighting for the rights of lesbian mothers has died after suffering a massive stroke. She was 70.

Obituary:
- Rosalie Davies, 70, lesbian activist, Philadelphia Gay News.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 18th - 24th 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
Jonathan Harvey scripts Corrie at 7.30 and 8.30 ITV1 Monday. The Supersizers Eat… their way through the 1950s onBBC2 at 9pm Monday. Imagine on BBC1 at 10.35pm. Dr Who is back on BBC3 every evening at 7, QI is back onDave and Will & Grace is back on Living every day.
Imagine on BBC1 at 10.35 examines John Maynard Keynes’ contribution to the Arts. The much trailered Desperate Romantics starts on BBC2 at 9. Looks like a Pre-Raphaelite Men Behaving Badly, but might be worth watching in the hope of some gay content. Ray Gosling Reports: OAP on BBC4 at 11.30pm.
One L and 2 Gs and 2 Bs on BB on C4. Alan Carr hosts his own show Chatty Man at 10pm C4. The Wire 11.20pm Tuesday and Wednesdayon BBC2. Ugly Betty on C4 at 10pm Wednesday and Skins at 11 on Wednesday. OnThursday, Psychoville at 10 on BBC2. A repeat of QI, hosted by Stephen Fry, is on BBC2 at 10pm Friday.
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. Come Dine with Me at 5.30pm on C4.

Films
Kinky Boots on BBC1 at 10.25pm Sunday It’s a 2005 Brit movie about a shoe factory in Northampton that branches into making ladies’ shoes in men’s sizes in a bid for survival. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging touches on lesbianism at 6pm, Sunday on Sky Premiere.
Indie airs The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 8.15pm Thursday. 50s heart-throb James Dean in Rebel without a Cause at 6.50 on TCM.

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 18th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton.
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 - 8: Archive on 4 - Soho
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 11am: Elaine Page. With West End show tunes and guests
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

Monday 20th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton. Covering the holidays
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: Disco Classics with Dave Pearce
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4 - Soho (rpt - shortened)
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon. Jeannette Winterson
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: On the Town with the League of Gentlemen

Tuesday 21st
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton. Covering the holidays
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30am: Musical Migrants: From New York to Rio
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon

Wednesday 22nd
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton. Covering the holidays
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: Trevor Nelson on Diana Ross
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: 4 in a Field. Festival Comedy includes a stand-up by Stephen K. Amos
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. Aggressive debate that often touches on LGBT issues

Thursday 23rd
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton. Covering the holidays
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30pm: Grandfather, Grandfather. Story by Stephen K. Amos
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45: The Inconstant Moon
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: Shappi Talk. Shappi Khorsandi talks to Ken Livingstone and gay standing comedian Paul Sinha, and takes a wry look at religion.

Friday 24th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton. Covering the holidays
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: The Inconstant Moon
BBC Radio 4 - 8: Question Time. Peter Tatchell and Peter Hitchens are on the panel. Safety belts on!
BBC Radio 4 - 9: The Inconstant Moon. 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

National Pre-Launch of LGBT History Month 2010 Announced

This page will be updated as and when extra details become available.

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.

The year 2010 will bring us The Equality Act with its greater legislative demands of schools and all public institutions thereby increasing the relevance of LGBT History Month.

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.

Afternoon session - 1.30-3.30pm: for 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. 12 practioners of the primary, secondary, and university sectors as well as members of a youth group, a singer who works in schools, and a Connexions worker will be at hand. They come from all over the country, both urban and rural.

They include

• John Harold - No Outsiders
• Elly Barnes - Stoke Newington School London
• Pauline Weeks - Thomas Tallis School London
• Jan Bridget and youth from Gay and Lesbian Youth In Calderdale
• Kate Sicolo - Intercom Trust Cornwall
• Liz Willow - Camden Forum
• David Robson - Roehampton University
• Louise Davies - Out For Our Children
• Jay Stewart - Gendered Intelligence
• Naechanè Valentino - singer and educationalist
• Rachel Williams - Connexions
• Pav Akhtar - Training and Development Agency for Schools
• Ekow Armah - National Coordinator Healthy Schools
• Diana Johnson MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools
• and speakers from the Central School of Speech and Drama, the MLA, and Ofsted

Exhibitions will include:

• Gays the Word Bookshop
• Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton’s Queer Cartoonists and LGBT History
• Camden Forum
• Gendered Intelligence/Central School Speech and Drama
• Shropshire Archives
• Intercom Trust
• Nottingham Rainbow Heritage
• Birmingham LGBT Community Trust
• Manchester Military Pride
• LGBT Youth North West
• Queer Youth
• Galop and Stonewall Housing Oral History Project
• University of Brighton “Count Me In”
• Southwark LGBT forum and Network
• Queer Oxford
• Out For Our Children
• Hall Carpenter Archives
• Kent County Council Youth Group
• Peterborough The Youth Group
• A Day in Hand

Teachers surgery - 5-6pm: A relaxed and informal session for teachers who want to begin LGBT celebrations in their school to come and discuss with teachers who have already had successful results. The panel will consist of representatives from primary and secondary schools who have tried and tested ideas to help kick start your celebrations for February 2010.

Formal pre-launch - 6.15-9pm: Highlighting art, history and culture, 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, Michael Cashman MEP, Cllr Keith Moffit, Leader of Camden Council, Amy Murphy of Our Story Scotland, Jan Pemblett from the London Metropolitan Archives and Lou Hart from the Camden LGBT Forum.

There will aslo be presentations from Rukus (black LGBT archive), Brighton Our Story (local LGBT archive), London Metropolitan Archive and Imperial War Museum North (Military Pride).

For more information, to sign up for the event, please click here, select the part of the event you want to attend and click on register.

A pre-launch event is also taking place at the University of Salford on 3rd December. Find out more here.

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.

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.

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

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:

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.

Christopher Biggins on The Wright Stuff at 9.15 am Five on Tuesday. Dirk Bogarde on Bio at 4pm Wednesday.

Friday Dame Edna guests on Jonathan Ross at 10.35pm BBC1. T in the Park BBC2 11.35 features The Pet Shop Boys and Lady GaGa. Double helping of The Wire afterwards at 1.35am.

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

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.

Shi Pei Pu Dies

Shi Pei Pu

1939 - 2009

The singer, spy and model for the character of ‘M. Butterfly’ Shi Pei Pu has died, aged 70.

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

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

Mariela Castro to Speak at the Barbican

4 July will of course be Pride in London but for those who fancy winding the down with something a little quieter than a visit to a club, Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban president Raùl Castro, will be at the Barbican for a special discussion on gay rights in Cuba, following the 8.45pm screening of the film Strawberry and Chocolate.

She will be joined by Alberto Roque, a leading gay rights activist in Cuba and Juan Carlos Tabío.

Mariela Castro is director of the Cuban National Centre for Sex Education in Havana and campaigns for AIDS prevention along with the recognition of the rights of homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals in Cuba. She is also a widely published author.

Strawberry and Chocolate is the winner of a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the first film with an openly gay character to come from Cuba.

This event is part of cine cuba: 50 years of revolution in film that is taking place at the Barbican between 3 and 9 July.