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Southampton’s Queer Stories: a chance to celebrate the rich queer history of the city

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

Brighton LGBTIQ+ History Club to explore Queers and Books at Brighton’s Jubilee Library on Sunday, February 26

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

BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram

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

BOOK REVIEW: Great LGBTQ+ Speeches by Tea Uglow

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

The History of Dorothy Towers to be explored in new project

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

Benefit for Queer Britain, the national LGBTQ+ museum, with Tom Robinson and guests

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

More than 60,000 digitised items from LGBTQ+ pioneers launch online

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

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