Calendar back on

It seems that several people have had difficulties posting events on the LGBT History Month calendar of events. Our IT people have been beavering away and are telling us that they have now sorted the problem.

Please feel free to post your events. It would be helpful if people could also post events that are now past as it would be good to keep a record of what happened for the Month in 2008. Events listed on the calendar are also featured in the annual report for History Month.

Please receive our apologies for any inconvenience this may have created.

Coming Out at Christmas

The London Gay Men's Chorus singing a new version of Hark the Herald at the Barbican Theatre, London during Make the Yuletide Gay, their Christmas show in December 2006.

Season's greetings to everyone for the LGBT History Month team!

The song was written by New York-based actor, playwright, activist, Craig Sturgis in 1992, using Felix Mendelssohn's Hark the Herald Angels Sing as a basis. Sturgis has often hung new words upon old notes and amongst his other songs are, Jock Itch, Gays for Days and Gay Getaway. His work is popular with the New York Gay Men's Chorus.

Dean X Johnson, who was Assistant Musical Director for the New York Gay Men's Chorus, and accompanist to many Broadway stars including Elaine Stritch, Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli, made an arrangment for the New York Gay Men's Chorus, which was also used by the London Gay Men's Chorus for their Christmas show in 2005 and 2006. Dean also worked with Eartha Kitt at London's Piccadilly Theatre and at Carnegie Hall. Dean died in 1998 aged only 44.

Coming Out On Christmas

Forum and Calendar down today

Due to maintenance work on our servers, both the Forum and Calendar will be off line today. We apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

LGBT Heritage in the Peninsula

Thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Intercom Trust has just started (June 2007) an eighteen-month project to enable local groups and local volunteers to celebrate LGBT History Month right across the South West peninsula.

Intercom provides services to the LGBT community across the South West rural peninsula: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; Devon, Plymouth and Torbay; Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole; and Somerset, North Somerset and Bath & North-East Somerset.

The new Heritage Project Worker, Sarah Stephenson, is already involved in creating events and helping other people and organisations (including schools) to create their own events, facilitating and supporting local volunteers, researching local history and creating an archive for the future. Sarah has a great track-record in History Month activities in Gloucestershire.

This project is making history, as well as discovering it. Future LGBT History Month workers and others will be able to draw on the archive when they want to know about what LGB and Trans people have done, and been, and lived through - and what we are doing now - and all about our communities' positive contributions to life in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

Sarah has also started a blog about her work. A link is available in our blogroll (right-hand sidebar).

http://lgbtheritageswpeninsula.blogspot.com

Intercom Heritage page

LGBT History Month Celebrates Our Health

We are dedicating a page on our website to LGBT health issues, health history, health resources and current health campaigns.We want this page to be as inclusive and comprehensive as possible. This space will contain biographies, timelines, current issues and links to all those organisations working in the field, with their logo and a brief summary of what they do.

If you are part of a LGBT health organisation, we are looking for your organisation's logo and a brief summary of who you are and the services you provide.

Do you have an account of the history of your organisation?
Do you have a piece of LGBT health history that you might share or some research that you can provide?
Do you have any issues which you would like to raise or comments you would like to make?

If you do, please contact:
Jacob Breslow
lgbthmhealth@gmail.com

What is a Blog?

The LGBT History Month UK blog is a space for friends of History Month to find news, information, notice of events, tips, press releases, articles and possibly discussions about the LGBT community in the UK and its history.

Terminology
A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelt web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries.

A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called blogging. Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". The person behind a blog is called a blogger. All several millions of blogs published to date constitute the blogosphere.

Alongside the regularly updated entries, a blog often features a blogroll, a list of links to other blogs that the author reads; and/or, with whom he or she is affiliated.

Bloggers are always very happy for their readers to comment on their posts. This can easily be done by clicking on the "comments" link at the bottom of each post.

Subscribe
Readers of a blog can, should they want to, subscribe to it and be notified of any update without the need to visit that blog regularly. You would first need to register to a "news aggregator" or "feed reader" and then add the blog's feed to their list of subscriptions on this site. To subscribe to our blog, simply click on the "subscribe" icon at the bottom of the right hand sidebar and select your reader for an easy subscription process.

Recent versions of the most popular browsers offer news aggregation options (Look up RSS in the help section of your browser for details).

Should you not want to register to a new aggregator, we offer you the possibility to receive notification of updates to the blog by email. You can register to this service by clicking here or on the link at the bottom of the right-hand side bar.

Share
Each post on the blog has its own URL. This allows you to easily link to a post you find of interest or to send the link to a contact. Just right click on the title of the post you are interested in and copy the link.

Social bookmarking is a way to share content on websites and blog you like with other online users. We have provided an easy way for you to bookmark interesting posts to all major bookmarking sites. Simply click on the "bookmark" icon at the bottom of the post you want to share. You can also share the whole blog with the icon at the bottom of the right hand sidebar.

Please do not hesitate to contact our website administrator if you have any questions or comments on the blog.
website@lgbthistorymonth.org.uk

The LGBT History Month Steering Group hope that you will find the blog useful and of interest.

Welcome

Welcome to the blog of LGBT History Month UK.

This is a space for friends of History Month to find news, information, notice of events, tips, press releases, articles and possibly discussions about the LGBT community in the UK.

The LGBT History Month Steering Group hope that you will find the blog useful and of interest.