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London Fashion College Goes Gay for IDAHO Westminster City Council, Amnesty International, IDAHO, LGBT History Month, Schools Out, and the University of Arts are combining to organize a major event May 17 at the London College of Fashion that commemorates IDAHO, the International Day Against Homophobia. Ealier this year, a competition invited the students of the University of Arts (London) to design posters marking LGBT History Month and the International Day Against Homophobia. The 4 winning posters (two in each category) can be seen here. www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/07/May/1101.htm Doncaster Celebrates LGBT History Month in Style Hope you are well and enjoyed
all the celebrations and events throughout this years LGBT
His Having had the last 2 years
in the Mansion House and collated thoughts and wishes for
the future from LGBT who attended, many of which were more
high profile events in Our aim this year was to have
displays in the Corn Exchange and utilise the entertainment
area outside between the corn Exchange and Bar NY (gay bar)
whilst the market was open!!!!!!! providing entertainment
for all ages, stilt walkers, jugglers, face painters, singing
dancing and a classic pop band Ti Amero oh I nearly forgot
and a 8ft walking / talking Rainbow Tree!!! Many people from all communities
joined in viewing the displays, dancing and singing outside.
It was also witnessed was that
the stall holders where singing to and dancing to "
dancing queen and YMCA" an impressive sight to say they
weren't happy when they found what the event was about at
the start. But the end of the day they all had Pink Balloons
on their stalls, got involved and stated this was the best
market day they'd had financially and entertainment wise.
We certainly had turned attitudes towards LGBT around this
year. It was estimated at
least 400 to 500 people attended throughout the
day, many bringing children which was great to
see. Some were just passing through who also stopped
and got involved, and some were from out of Doncaster,
One of the aims for
the day was to recruit LGBT people t to
be part of a Doncaster LGBT forum, have a voice and
get involved in other LGBT events. 37 people signed
up to this, which is fantastic. "how fantastic is
this" ......."more events like this"........ " congratulations
to We also have a LGBT
His Down memory lane
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) society have had an active role at the university for several years. They met up with us to celebrate LGBT his http://www.waterfrontonline.co.uk/articles/2007/02/26/down-memory-lane Ch 4 launch 'The Big Gay Pod' To complement Channel 4's Gay teen Sexuality Awareness week, Channel 4 Radio have produced two podcasts which offer support and advice to young gay teens about dealing with the issues of coming out at a young age. Schools OUT has inspirational conference at the Drill Hall on Saturday 3rd February to celebrate LGBT History Month 2007. Speakers included Sir Ian McKellen, Judy Moorhouse, President of the National Union of Teachers, Mark Chater of the QCA, Dr Steven Wharton, Joint President of the University and College Union and Ms Fontaine lesbian hip-hop performer. Click here for photos of the event LGBT ghosts Portsmouth hs produced an excellent resource. Channel four shows educational films on LGBT issues in LGBT His http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3571.html Photo 1 Southwark photo exhibition http://www.flickr.com/photos/zefrog/381012753/in/pool-lgbtsouthwark/ Window view into LGBT activism http://www.flickr.com/photos/twocrabs/380768601/ http://uk.gay.com/headlines/10964 American Black History month is February and like us they acknowledge the Black LGBT people http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=23243 Link GLA have banners in city hall celebrating 200 years of equalities here are two banners of LGB interest http://www.fyne.co.uk/index.php?item=420 Gay animals out of the closet? Exhibition focuses on gay people in the Press http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3563.html Events to take your breath away http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/07/Jan/2903.htm Lib dems support LGBT HM DfES cut funding to LGBT History Month http://uk.gay.com/headlines/10826 Gay activists back Theatre Museum http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3307.html Call for submissions - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History Month in Haringey - February 2007 www.wisethoughts.org/LGBTHM07
An Audience with Adrienne 10 - 14 & 17 - 21 January Wed & Thurs 8pm, Fri & Sat 8.30pm, Sunday at 5pm Venue: The Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX Gloucestershire's gays asked to reveal 'hidden' history. More here (external link) Scottish Executive and LGBT Youth Scotland fund full time post for LGBT History Month! LGBT Youth Scotland and the Scottish Executive have teamed up and provided a full time post to deliver and market LGBT History month in Scotland. Scotland has much to learn from LGBT History month UK and I hope that we will be able to forge strong links, and make February an awareness extravaganza, with fun and informative events, with great media coverage. Susan Deacon MSP, a patron of LGBT Youth welcomed this initiative by LGBT Youth Scotland: "I welcome this initiative by LGBT Youth. This is great opportunity for people to learn from the experiences of earlier generations and to celebrate the progress which has been made. But there is still much to be done to build a fair and tolerant Scotland and I hope that this work will help encourage (LGBT young) people to continue to press for change and to be confident in their ability to bring that change about." If you would like to find out more about LGBT History Month Scotland, or would like to chat about putting on an event or raising awareness within your workplace then please contact ann.marriott@lgbtyouth.org.ukLGBT History Month 2007 – it’s never too early! Despite that LGBT History Month 06 seems to have only been a few weeks back, here at the Department for Constitutional Affairs’ Rainbow Network we are already looking ahead to next years LGBT History Month. In order to reach more people we are planning to publish a magazine celebrating the lives of both ordinary LGBT people and LGBT celebrities. We have contacted people from the worlds of music, film, theatre, politics and activism to ask a few questions about what they think about the concept of history month, the way forward for inclusivity of LGBT people and how their sexual orientation impacted on their careers. We have also asked staff members to tell us their coming out stories, as well as asking for people to tell us about the first time someone came out to them. LGBT History Month 2007 is less than six months away, and in conjunction with everything else the Rainbow Network is doing, it isn’t really that long!
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