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LGBT HISTORY MONTH: CELEBRATING OUR COMMUNITY
Are you a community/grass roots LGBT organisation?
Would you like to promote your group on our website? Send your logo
and a paragraph about your organisation and what LGBT History Month
means to you and we will showcase you and your work on the website.
Send your logo to lgbthist@lgbthistorymonth.org.uk |
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Cambridge embraces the diversity of all our local population.
Cambridge City Council has worked hard over the last couple
of years to build strong links with the LGBT community, and
to become a fair and positive employer for LGBT staff. We launched
our LGBT support group in 2004, and joined Stonewall's Diversity
Champions Scheme in early 2005. We have celebrated LGBT
History Month since 2005 with senior political and management
support, and have actively invited other agencies and organisations
to also get involved. We work closely with and are funding
the development of a local LGBT community network. LGBT History
is an excellent opportunity to bring people together, to learn
about different life experiences, to overcome barriers and misunderstandings
between us, and to challenge prejudice and
discrimination around sexual orientation.
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Set
up eleven years ago, South London Gays (SLG) provides
a wide range of social events and activities for its members.
These include theatre, cinema and museum visits, walks and days
out, tea parties and coffee evenings, tennis matches and monthly
meetings with guest speakers. We first supported the
LGBT history month in February 2005 with a talk by Perry
Savill and Neil Cooper on the history and current work of
London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard. In February 2006 Dr Robert
Berkley from the Black Gay Men's Advisory Group spoke about the
history and progress of gay black people in Britain. Our
forthcoming LGBT event will be on 13 February 2007 when
Rev Don Mader from the Pauluskerk in Rotterdam talks about Gay
Activists in History: the contribution of the Uranians to
homosexual liberation.
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Croydon Area Gay Society (CAGS) is proud to support LGBT History
month. Our society has been in existence for over 30 years as a
social and support group for lesbian and gay people in the Croydon
area, and has seen major changes in the lives of LGBT people, some
of which we have helped to campaign for. Our contribution to LGBT
History month will include a play reading taken from Rex Batten's
Rid England of this Plague at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon,
on the 5th of February.
www.cags.org.uk
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When we started our
History Project in 2000, we were lucky enough still to be in contact
with many people who had been involved in the late 1960s/early
1970s developments from which Nottingham Switchboard sprang.
Some people who were
in their 70s or 80s had such fascinating stories to tell about
the pre-1967 world; stories that were sometimes sad, but often
very funny. Most
of the younger people who talked to us were conscious that they
were living in fortunate times, though they too could still mention
instances where they had suffered discrimination. We were very
aware that personal histories like these could easily be lost
- a point that was emphasised when one of the people scheduled
for interview died before he could speak to us.
Many laws affecting
LGBT people have been changed for the better in recent times,
but changing laws does not, of itself, change attitudes. Much
of the homophobia that still exists is fuelled by ignorance.
LGBT History month is one tool which can be used to help
dispel some of that ignorance.
www.nlgshistory.ik.com
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Enfys
(which is welsh for rainbow) is the LGBT Staff Network of Cardiff
University. We are a new staff and postgraduate group which
aims to provide an informal and friendly space to socialise and
to discuss issues considered important by LGBT staff and postgraduates.
The overarching aim of the network is to provide a forum for LGBT
staff to meet, socialise and discuss pertinent issues.
Our first major event is a public
lecture to celebrate LGBT History Month with Professor Jeffrey
Weeks from London South Bank University. LGBT History Month
is an important chance for us to break the silence surrounding
LGBT history in a format which is widely accessible to University
staff and local people.
cardiff.ac.uk/lgbt-staff-network
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Lancashire Friend
is a charity for lesbian and gay people in Lancashire, their friends
and their families. We offer a range of services including a phoneline
where you can talk about your problems, get advice, or just talk
to a friendly ear, free professional counselling, befriendings and
regular social events.Website address: www.lancashirefriend.org.uk
LGBT History Month means an opportunity to celebrate our diverse
cultural heritage whilst increasing awareness, promoting cohesion
and a better understanding of LGBT issues. It is also a chance of
applaud the LGBT pioneers who gave our community a voice.
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