Shropshire County Council wants to know which is the favourite book written by or about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people or experience. You can vote at any of the County Libraries using a voting slip they will give you or you can vote on-line. The closing date is 31.01.08
A display and information accessable to members of the public visiting Devon Records office with help and support from Devon Records office and Hall Carpenter Archives.
The Primary focus of Plymouth LGBT History Month this year is to provide a locally produced History Month packs to secondary schools. The packs aim to improve teaching and learning about LGBT Histories and Culture and to develop a greater undrstanding of LGBT communities, thus reduce phobic bullying among young people. The leader of Plymouth City Council Will open the launch of Plymouth LGBT History Month. Other speakers at the event include the Assistant Director of Childrens Services, The Plymouth Out Youth Group, The Intercom Trust and the National Union of Teachers. An exhibition of local organisations will provide resources and information. refreshments will also be available.
Irshad Manji is the internationally best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in her Faith.
The film takes a journey to reconcile her faith in Allah with her love of freedom and asks: How can Muslims change for the 21st century?
Faith Without Fear raises important questions about women's role in modern Islam. Her journey takes her from the conservative Islam in Yemen, where she meets Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard, to Spain where different cultures and religions flourished under Muslim civilisation. She also seeks to reconcile her liberal approach to Islam, as a lesbian muslim, with her more conservative mother and challenges conventional views on Islam, which has led to confrontations with Islamic clerics in her native Canada.
Faith Without Fear presents a personal account of a modern Muslim woman looking to balance religion and life in the twenty first century.
Come and see the exhibition on Thursday January 24th 6.30 – 7 pm on the fourth floor. Then join us for a discussion in The Pod on the 5th floor at 7 pm, on what resources and collection's should be available in libraries for the LGBT community in Southwark.
This is a great opportunity to have your say on the future for the LGBT community.
Bring along those ideas for books/DVD’s and other resources.
Light refreshments available. Discussion ends at 7.45.
Please confirm your attendance to Dax Ashworth 020 7525 5659 dax.ashworth@southwark.gov.uk
Join the Tower Hamlets LGBT Forum and guests for an evening of entertainment, speeches and exhibitions, with music from the London Gay Symphony Orchestra.
Libraries in Cambridgeshire will be celebrating the contribution that LGBT communities have made and continue to make to the cultural life of the UK and further afield, through the medium of literature, film and music. There will be book, DVD displays and music displays from LGBT writers and performers in libraries at Cambourne, Milton Road Cambridge and St Neots, throughout February.
There are a number of exciting events taking place in Islington throughout February to celebrate LGBT History Month. To start the celebrations, Islington Council is holding a launch evening in the Town Hall.
The launch evening is a social event with speakers who represent the theme of the month, the past, present and future of LGBT life in Islington. Entertainment, food and refreshments will be provided. And organisations such as London Friend, Switchboard, Age Concern and the Metropolitan University LGBT group will have stalls to offer information and advice.
Throughout February, there will be an exhibition from Proud Heritage in the foyer of the Town Hall.