2ndCall for Popular History Presentations for the

2ndNational Festival of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans History

Celebrating Every Weekend in February 2016 @

In the South-West
@ Bristol / In the South-East
@ London / In the North-West
@ Manchester / In the Midlands
@ Shrewsbury / In the North-East
@ Tyne & Wear

Schools OUT UK is delighted to announce the Call for History & Archival Presentations for the 2nd National Festival of LGBT History to be celebrated five Regional Hubs every Weekend in LGBT HM (February) in 2016.

This year we are again inviting individuals and group to showcase either:

  1. A historical reading of the past, or
  2. An archival source that showcases e.g. personal oral testimonies of past, sets of photos, significant documents and the stories behind them

Your historical presentation/reading might be the presentation/explanation of a past local, regional or national:

  • Event or related eventsof direct relevance to the Human/LGBT Rights agenda/experience
  • The history of a group or a specific campaign
  • A personal journey that involves a number of viewpoints of that journey

Each festival presentation will no more than twenty minutes long followed by a ten minute Q&A session.

The presentations showcased in this category at the 1st Festival of LGBT History included: “We were born in the 1980’s: History of the Joyce Layland Centre (Manchester)”, “Anne Lister: A Life”, “Queer Nottinghamshire”, “How Trade Unions Helped LGBT People gain equality” , “Press for Change & Trans History”, “21 years and more: BiPhoria and Bisexuality in Manchester”.

Your archival source presentation might be:

  • A personal testimony (aka oral history) about a personal or collective experience
  • A set of campaigning leaflets/publicity and the story behind them
  • Personal or other photo-images and the stories behind them
  • A letter or document that again provides a reading of that past commonly ignored or denied

The presentations showcased in this category at the 1st Festival of LGBT History included: “The Journey to Freedom from ‘you can’t be gay’ to ‘Gay?prove it!’ ”,; “Am I the only one? Lone voices to collective action”; “Spiritual Journeys”; “Growing-up Gay in the GDR”; “Experiences with the Campaign for Homosexual Equality”.

What both historical reading & archival source have in common as types of presentations is that they help educate the British public about the neglected past understanding of past attitudes towards sex and gender (i.e. Festival Aim One).

Closing Date for this 2ndCall of Presentations 30thAugust 2015

For more information contact Jeff

To submit your presentation offer, please download the online form at when completed sent to:

…PTO

Showcasing your contribution to shed much need light onto an important part of all our collective history that has been and still is consistently denied and hidden

Your kind offer of a LGBT History/Archival Presentation: Application form

Your Name
Contact Address
Contact Phone Number
Email Contact
Organisation representing (if any)
The Title of Your Presentation
Is your Presentation :
a) A historical presentation (a balanced reading of a past event)
b) An archival presentation (e.g. oral testimony, etc.)?
If a history presentation what is the evidence is it based on (e.g. records, personal archive, oral testimony, etc.)?
How does your presentation add to our understanding of LGBT History (e.g. untold story, hidden history, etc.)?
If your presentation is accepted will you require access to: / (Please tick appropriate boxes)
Data Projector
Sound system
other equipment (please state)
In which of the Regional LGBT History Festival Hubs would you like to present (tick as few or as many as you wish)? / (Please tick appropriate boxes)
Midlands Region @ Shrewsbury
South East Region @ London
North East Region @ Newcastle/Sunderland
North West Region @ Manchester
South West Region @ Bristol
Yorkshire Region @ York
This form can be completed and submitted on line at: /
Or a competed hard copy sent by post to: / Call of Presentations (2nd National Festival of LGBT History) Schools OUT UK Post Box:BM Schools OUT UK, London WC1N 3XX
Queries can be direct to Jeff at: / or by post to the above address

2ndSubmission Deadline 30th June 2015

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Our Distinguished Academic Patrons: Alison Oram (Professor in Social and Cultural History, Leeds Becket University), Harry Cocks (Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham) , Matt Cook (Professor Matt Cook, History & Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London), Sheila Rowbotham (Professor, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester),Charles Upchurch (Associate Professor of History, Florida State University), Jeffrey Weeks (Research Professor, Arts & Human Sciences/Social Sciences, London South Bank University), Stephen Whittle (Professor of Equalities Law in the School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University).