Photo: Jane Wrin

To celebrate LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) History month Brighton’s central Jubilee library will play host to a series of exhibitions exploring aspects of being LGBT and the way that it impacts on our ideas of health, wellbeing and identity.

Three exhibitions will look at homophobia in Sport, Transgender identity and LGBT mental health.

A major portrait exhibition entitled "Putting the T first", by photographer Jane Wrin challenges stereotypes around gender and will hang in the main windows of the Library for the whole month.

Jane said:
“My aim is to create and raise awareness of the trans community. Trans people are often ridiculed, misunderstood and discriminated. My models are wonderful, vibrant, intelligent people who have all been through the mill of life with more stresses than many of us can imagine. I hope some people who go away with a far more positive attitude towards difference and a healthy distaste towards Transphobia.”

There is an opportunity for Trans people to have a portrait added to the next exhibition of this work. If anyone would prefer a private session they can email photos@janewrin.com

The Justin Campaign art exhibition aims to raise awareness around LGBT participation in sport. To use art to highlight the on going issue of discrimination faced by people from the LGBT community & promote the work of "Football v Homophobia" and its work with Brighton & Hove Albion, as part of a broader exhibition about LGBT participation in Sport

Focusing the Mind is a photographic exhibition by members of Out of the Blue, a LGBT suicide prevention group run by MindOut. The photographs show scenes from daily life, which express aspects of the distress felt alongside the ways in which people cope with, manage and survive their distress.  

Helen Jones from Mind out said:
"I think this exhibition is invaluable in highlighting mental health problems and the effect they have on people. This project humanises issues of …mental health. I was laughing & crying at the same time. It touches me to think we are not alone"

Exhibitions run from February 1 to 27 in the Jubilee Library foyer and main windows, all are free. The exhibitions have been arranged in partnership with BHCC.