Exhibitions Southampton’s Queer Stories: a chance to celebrate the rich queer history of the city Explore more of Southampton’s Queer Stories and celebrate the rich queer history of the city in a free exhibition at God’s House Tower, SO14 2NY till Sunday, October 27. In the Barker-Mill Project Space, extracts from newspapers and pamphlets are exhibited alongside video clips of local news reports By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Brighton LGBTIQ+ History Club to explore Queers and Books at Brighton’s Jubilee Library on Sunday, February 26 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 By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram Part history, part dream, part political, part romance, part research but wholly celebratory. A book that tells Our story, by those that built and continue to build the spaces we choose to live in. The range of voices written in its pages reflects the diversity of our community back to us, but time By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Great LGBTQ+ Speeches by Tea Uglow Eric Page is delighted by the insight, sass and glorious rhetoric (from) these speeches shine like beacons, they glow with the power of inspiration, they shake with rage, shudder with righteous anger and shout across time space for us to echo them in our daily testimony, struggle and who we fight to By Eric Page • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News The History of Dorothy Towers to be explored in new project The Sentinels – known variously as ‘Dorothy Towers’ and ‘Fairy Towers’ in Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ communities – are two residential tower blocks – Clydesdale Tower and Cleveland Tower – located in Birmingham’s city centre. During the 1970s and ’80s, the site gained a reputation for being a place where m By Catherine Muxworthy • 3 min read
Arts Benefit for Queer Britain, the national LGBTQ+ museum, with Tom Robinson and guests Musician and broadcaster Tom Robinson is to present an evening of songs and stories to benefit Queer Britain, the national LGBTQ+ museum, at Jackson Lane Arts in London on Friday, March 11 from 7.30pm By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Radclyffe Hall and Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge. Credit; University of Texas at Austin Harry Ransom Center. LGBTQ+ News More than 60,000 digitised items from LGBTQ+ pioneers launch online More than 60,000 digitised items and a new educational resource based on the papers of two LGBTQ pioneers are now online thanks to researchers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas By Graham Robson • 2 min read
A Pride event in Berlin, Germany General News Germany compensating LGBTQ+ people affected by historic anti-gay law Germany offering compensation to 249 people who faced persecution under a 1871 law that criminalised same-sex relationships between men. By Rachel Badham • 1 min read
Arts Tell QueenSpark Books your story for new celebration book To mark its 50th anniversary, QueenSpark Books will be publishing a landmark book comprising 50 stories, and is looking for tales, anecdotes and reminiscences from Brighton residents By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts What’s YOUR Brighton story? To coincide with its 50th anniversary, QueenSpark Books is looking for tales, anecdotes and reminiscences from Brighton residents to make up a new landmark book By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Hidden Histories project at Ironbridge Gorge A major new research project has been launched by The Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust to uncover the overlooked histories, including LGBTQ+, of the area By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Community OUTing the Past to host virtual symposium on Saturday, September 12 The symposium will see selected presenters join invited artists and practitioners to share their thoughts on creatively engaging with the LGBTQ+ past. By Graham Robson • 3 min read
