Pride Action North (PAN) is hosting the inaugural Progression Ball and Awards Ceremony on February 2, 2024 to mark the beginning of LGBTQ+ History Month in recognition of the work being carried out by organisations and individuals to make the North East a more inclusive, diverse and accepting place for all.
Brian Butler looks at episodes 4-6 of this LGBTQ+ series on BBC
The lecture from Professor Rusi Jaspal is part of the University’s LGBT+ History Month programme of events
February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK, which celebrates LGBTQ+ lives in their full diversity. Each year, Schools OUT sets a different theme and this year it’s Behind the Lens, celebrating LGBTQ+ people’s contribution to cinema and film from behind the lens. You are encouraged to look ‘Behind the Lens’ and listen to LGBTQ+ lived experience.
Opening Pandora’s Box: queer dimensions of library legacies, struggles and hopes will see Alice Corble share stories from her career as a queer library user, worker, researcher and activist, reflecting on the spaces and communities of queer discovery and connection that libraries can foster, as well as institutional and societal constraints and conflicts that can limit such possibilities. The discussion will invite intergenerational lessons and longings for LGBTQ+ library lives.
“In the dark you could walk into the zoo. Right underneath you had little animatronics like the Dwarves’ Diamond Mine. You’d go down there for a bit of how’s ya father as well.”
ParaPride returns with a large in-person event in celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month 2023
Green councillors have marked the end of LGBTQ+ History Month with a call for continued joint work to promote equality in the city and tackle multiple discrimination people face.
The exhibition will draw to a close on Thursday, February 24 with Everyman hosting a charity gala night auctioning the artwork to attendees in aid of LGBTQ+ rights charity, Stonewall.
Brian Butler is blown away by Alexis Gregory’s tour de force monologue show
