As it’s the last day of #LGBTQHistoryMonth (in the UK), here’s a thread about growing up gay in the 1980s/90s, facing the threat of AIDS and the introduction of Section 28.
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Remember, LGBTQ+ history isn’t just for #LGBTQHistoryMonth. It sprawls about, like the suburbs…
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🌈 LGBTQ+ History Month
This week we honour Dr James Barry, a pioneering surgeon and women’s health leader 🩺. Assigned female at birth, Barry lived as a man, his story untold, and reshaped medicine for the women of today.
✨ History is richer when we tell it whole #irishhistory #lgbtqhistorymonth
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Our new Queer and Trans Histories series is seeking proposals for works that expand the field, uncover overlooked topics, and reimagines how these histories are told.
Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...
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As we reach the end of LGBTQ+ History Month, we’re reflecting on our visit to Age UK Richmond's Rainbow Café and the importance of inclusive, community‑led spaces for LGBTQ+ elders.
👉 Read the full story on our website.
#LGBTQHistoryMonth #AgeUKRichmond #RainbowCafe
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Promo image for the team junkfish employee resource group rainbow fish event held for, LGBTQIA+ History Month. Images features text, rainbow ribbon and a poster for the film Pride. Text reads: LGBTQIA+ History Month. A roundtable discussion of Pride, with RainbowFish ERG.
As part of #LGBTQHistoryMonth, our RainbowFish ERG hosted a roundtable centred on the film Pride 🏳️🌈
We explored parallels between LGBTQ+ rights struggles in the 1980s & social justice movements across the globe today. The discussion reminded us that standing together takes commitment and care 💖
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🌈 Celebrate @lgbthm.bsky.social by exploring the collaborative research on Anne Lister.
Discover how the Lister community is uncovering new stories and perspectives.
womenshistorynetwork.org/rediscoverin...
#LGBTQHistoryMonth #AnneLister #GenderHist
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If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check.
Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research.
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To mark #LGBTQHistoryMonth, Penny Phillips, from the NHS Older People’s Sounding Board, reflects on experiences of older LGBTQ+ people and why inclusive, coproduced healthcare must drive future change.
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#LGBTplusHM26 #LGBTHM26 #LGBTplusHM
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This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, we’re highlighting how #film has told and validated LGBTQ+ #stories and #identities. Our #collection traces the evolution of #LGBTQ+ representation - pictured are some examples.
Explore more here: tinyurl.com/5n7wmcar #museumsky #lgbtsky #filmsky
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Joe Hancock, editor of Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, discusses how the journal supports LGBTQ+ and other marginalised communities, fostering a more inclusive and representative space for scholarship.
Watch the full In Conversation here 👉https://youtu.be/rt5gGEqPrHk
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Tickets for Sue Frumin's reading of her play, Fine and Dandy, at Deptford Lounge are going fast. Get your free tickets here www.outsavvy.com/event/33310/...
#LGBTQHistoryMonth #AnyOldIron @lgbthm.bsky.social @thealbanyse8.bsky.social
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Day 23: Chris Smith
🏳️🌈 Chris Smith made history as the UK’s first openly gay MP. A trailblazer for equality, he helped change laws, challenge prejudice, and prove that being out in politics matters.
#LGBTQHistoryMonth
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On the shelf for #LGBTQHistoryMonth and all year round!
Some of our favourite authors, sharing the Queer history of Bow Street and beyond
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The two women had known each other before moving to Birmingham: they both had been educated at the University of Oxford and met while working at the library in Somerville College. Like Rose, Margery was also an accomplished academic and passionate about social reform. She later became one of the first women magistrates in Britain and campaigned for penal reform. The two women became inseparable during their time at Birmingham. Stories about their relationship chart a joyful romance filled with laughter and fun. They organised events for their students, including dances, plays and sports, with a house principle being essentially ‘the right to be silly’. This principle was part of their commitment to equality in higher education: like male students, they should have the right to be both serious and silly at University. They also enjoyed quieter hobbies including needlework and birdwatching and wrote poetry to each other as gifts. Margery kept the poems that Rose sent to her for the rest of her life; the verses were filled with love, signed with epithets including ‘yours that loves you more every day.’
Margery Fry with the ornamental birdbath Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham - a white woman in Edwardian dress is grinning while sticking her hand into the fountain spray of a bowl situated atop a 1m plinth in the garden of University House, the first women-only hall of residence on campus. But throughout 1918 the Great Influenza pandemic was starting to take hold and during her trip Rose became ill. She died that winter in New York, just as she was getting ready to return to the UK. Rose’s inscription is included in the University’s First World War memorial outside the Great Hall in the Aston Webb Building. Only a handful of women are listed on the memorial and Rose was recognised because in going to the US to represent Britain, she was representing her country and, in succumbing to illness, she also died for her country. Heartbreakingly, Margery was never notified of Rose’s illness so was not able to send her a last message. She heard of Rose’s death only afterwards, via telegram. Margery commissioned the birdbath to honour Rose and her love of nature and to remember their time spent birdwatching together. Even after leaving Birmingham, and returning to Oxford, she continued to send money for the upkeep of the birdbath and to preserve Rose’s feminist legacy.
An ornamental birdbath, tucked away by the Business School, bears witness to an enduring love between two of the University of Birmingham’s early feminist pioneers, Rose Sidgwick and Margery Fry, which was cut short by the 1918 Great Influenza pandemic
#LGBTQHistoryMonth (h/t @momoulton.bsky.social)
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to measure television subtitle quality using open-source and a free speech to text engine. Michael will work through some of challenges, solutions, and results that have arisen from this project. We’re excited to see what Michael has discovered! #ostem #stemlgbtqu #lgbtqhistorymonth #lgbthm
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Rue’s interactive talk will discuss how science can address the needs of the LGBTQ community, using her experience researching, teaching and caring for trans and gender diverse people and their bodies.
#ostem #stemlgbtqu #lgbtqhistorymonth #lgbthm
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Performing the Rabbit God from @queercomrades.bsky.social madeinchinajournal.com/2026/02/19/p... Interesting read especially during #LGBTQHistoryMonth #LGBT+HistoryMonth #QueerSky
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A novelty tune I think we should reclaim to parody that ridiculous "queer panic" over-taking the Right.
#lgbtq #lgbtqsky #lgbtqhistory #lgbtqhistorymonth #queer #queersky #queerhistory #queerhistorymonth #gay #gaysky #gayhistory #gayhistorymonth #1920s
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Dr Robin Hayward will be exploring the role of identity in communicating science, drawing from personal experiences in the field and from their work to create an LGBTQ+ inclusive toolkit for safe and equitable fieldwork #LGBTQSTEM #LGBTQhistorymonth
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We'll be back with another #LGBTQHistoryMonth blogpost next week, when researcher @timjerrome.bsky.social will share insights into his work of searching for queer rural lives within our archives.
Tim spoke to us previously about his work on Absolute Units!
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
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A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities.
This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army.
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Today we highlight, the histories of Ruth & Ju
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February is LGBT+ History Month, and this year it focuses on the theme of Science and Innovation 🌈🌟 LGBT+ people have always shaped scientific progress even if history hasn’t always recorded their contributions, or has tried to erase them after the fact.
#LGBTQHistoryMonth #Cyberpsychology
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Our CEO Kristianne is part of this LGBTQIA+ community projection ‘You Are Invited’ 💡 at Southampton City Art Gallery for #CityReflections.
A short looping piece co-created with Ri Baroche celebrating belonging.
📅 18–21 Feb • 6–8pm
cityreflectionssouthampton.org.uk
#lgbtqhistorymonth 🏳️🌈
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Day 19: Russell T Davies
A hugely influential British screenwriter/producer who revived Doctor Who in 2005 for a new generation. A trailblazer for LGBTQ+ storytelling, he created groundbreaking dramas like Queer as Folk, Cucumber, Banana & the acclaimed AIDS-era drama It’s a Sin.
#LGBTQHistoryMonth
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Late but proud ❤️🧡💛
This #LGBTQHistoryMonth we celebrate how far we’ve come, and remember there’s still work to do for true equality.💚🩵💙
Queer Church Birmingham stands with the LGBT+ community — this month and every month. 🩵🩷🤍
💬 What part of LGBTQ+ history inspires you most?💜🖤
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