Welcome to the 52ndLGBT History Month Bulletin. There are 6 sections:
Get ready for LGBT HM 5: a new section with regular updates
News: A selection of LGBT related news articles from the past month
Events: a two monthcalendar of shows, conferences and meetings
Related Sites: websites that deal with LGBT histories
Community: appeals, requests and community based ideas
Coming Soon: advance notice of events occurring during the month
Quotes: who said what, where and when
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News
New Single Equalities Act to be Announced
The New Single Equalities Act is expected to be announced in The Queen’s Speech this month. This will replace the current range of Equal Opportunities Act with one that provides the same opportunities and rights to each of the Equal Opportunities groups, or strands as they have come to be known.
School’s OUT’s Tony Fenwick said, “If it works it should bring about the end of a hierarchy of inequality and address the fact that the groups are not mutually exclusive. Some lesbians are black; some gay men are disabled; some transgendered people have a religious faith. We’re not born in boxes so why do we have to be shoved into them when we identify ourselves?”
Government and Unions Launch Fairer Futures
The Government and unions are launching a new scheme to make the new Single Equalities Act work. In its early days, the Fairer Futures Scheme will finance the training of Equal Opportunities Officers within the union structures and empower them to make sure the Single Equalities Act is being adhered to in the workplaces.
The Government is providing half the mine and the other half is to be made up from the unions’ coffers.
It was announced to LGBT NUT Delegates at their National Conference in Brighton on October 18th
Scotland ready to launch anti-homophobia toolkit (but where’s the ‘t’?)
LGBT Youth Scotland will be previewing Scotland’s new anti-homophobia toolkit for teachers at the Scottish Learning Festival on Wednesday the 24th September, in preparation for its full launch during anti-bullying week in November.
This brand new resource has been funded by the Scottish Government, managed by Learning and Teaching Scotland and developed by LGBT Youth Scotland. It deals with:
- The impact of homophobia and homophobic bullying
- Legislative and policy drivers
- Including homophobia in policy
- Parental involvement
- Dealing with homophobic incidents
- Supporting LGBT young people
- Range of lesson plans supporting Curriculum for Excellence outcomes and experiences.
Milk
Milk is the eponymous Focus Features bio-pic of ‘70’s gay San Francisco Mayor Harvey Milk, played by Sean Penn. It’s taking California by storm and is due for release this side of the pond on January 16th 2009.
International
US Election
Moose murderers and the economy (or what remains of it) aside, GLBT US voters in California have more reason than most to put an X by Barack Obama and chew their fingernails down to the bones on November 4th. For later this same month the good folk of California get to vote on Proposition 8, which would, if passed, outlaw same sex marriage within the state. Obama opposes the amendment (for an amendment it is) and McCain is for it. Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt have each donated £100,000 dollars to the campaign against “Prop 8”.
Events Calendar
Welcome to our new two month LGBT calendar. We are working towards a rotating annual calendar with separate spaces for regulars and special events. If you have an event you want to promote on our calendar for free, tell us about it on
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If you want to start a local LGBT history archive in your area, contact us and we’ll put it on our website. If you build us into the funding application, your town, city or village and its history will become national knowledge.
RegularsDate / where / when / what
Mon / Nottingham
Croydon Town Hall / Eve
7.30pm / PM Badminton Social(weekly)
Crocus Meeting.
Tues / Cramlington
Hackney
London Charing Cross Road
Greenwich MetroCentre, 110 Norman Rd. Greenwich / Eve
5.30-9pm
9-late
6-8pm / LGBT Youth (13-19). Sharon on: 01670 597 865 or Steve at MESMAC on: 0191 233 1333
The Green Door LGBTQI Youth Project
07772 565 546
Ruby Tuesday. Regular night out for lesbians and
their guests Ku Bar WC2H 7BA
Penelope’s Pitstop. Drop in advice and testing for women who have sex with women 020 8305 5000
Wed / The Glass Bar
190 Euston Road
NW1 2EF
Grand Hall, Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), Lavender Hill, Battersea, SW11 / 7.30-9.30
7pm / London Lesbian and Bi Women’s Group Social & Discussion
Wandsworth Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Forum
Thurs
Fri
Sat / Leicester Pink Pedallers Cycling Group / For more information on this event or on the Pink Pedallers Cycling Group, contact Elizabeth Barner, CTC Cycling Development Officer on 0116 229 2582 or email .
Sun / The Church Of The Assumption &
St Gregory, Warwick Street, Soho
The Candlestick, Essendon / 5pm
8pm / LGBT Catholic Mass (1st and 3rd Sundays of the month)
Gay Night Out in Herts
November and December
Date / where / when / what
1 Nov
Sat / Women’s Library,London Metropolitan University
Plymouth, Sheffield and Southampton
Liverpool
Lyttleton Theatre / All day
12-3pm
10-5
All day till Nov 30th
8pm till 15th / Between the Covers. The Evolution of the woman’s magazine. Free entry. Till April 1st
Magattak! Family event. Today only
The Arse Class. Free Sex Education for gay men. To book: or call 020 7738 6872.
Homotopia
DV8 Presents To be Straight with You
2Su / Drill Hall Chenies Street London (Tottenham Court Road Tube)
Warwick Street Soho / 4pm
5pm / Clementinewritten and performed by Mark Mander
£7.50£5 concessions020 7307 5060
LGBT Catholic Mass
Sidney Street LGBTQI Community Centre
49-51 Sidney Street
M1 7HB / 12-4.30pm / Queer Café, inc. discussion “Manchester Queer Hermsty”
3-4.30
3M / Vienna
Liverpool
Merseyside Schools Drama Theatre@cornerstone,
Everton Hope University
Liverpool
London: Birkbeck Cinema, 41, Gordon Sq. WC1H OPD
London Berorelli’s, Frith St. Soho / All day till 6th
TBC
7.30pm till 8th
6.30-9pm
6.30-10pm / ILGA Conference
Homotopia and Football
FIT, by Rikki Beadle-Blair
Series of shorts about Iraq, including premier of “Queer Fear”; a documentary about the systematic killing of LGBT people in Iraq. Free admission. Voluntary donations for LGBT Iraq (UK) at the end
SHIP SHAPE premieres Dorothea Smartt's eagerly awaited poetry collection. RSVP
4T / TUC Congress House London
Cambridge Regional College – Riverside Restaurant
London
Liverpool Contemporary Urban Centre,
41 - 51 Greenland Street, L1
London: Son and Doves, Coldharbour Lane Camberwell
/ All day
7 for 7.30pm
12.30pm
8pm
8pm / TUC Social Policy forum with Ivan Lewis MP Click here for booking details
SisterAct is hosting a fabulous dinner in support of "The Lesbian Associationof India" *
We will tantalise your senses with:
• A delicious 5 course meal
• A reading by THE award winning and Booker short listed author– Ali Smith
• A raffle
signed copy of Ali Smith’s “Girl Meets Boy” and a meal for two at “The Café Project”
Price: A bargain £20 per head
SisterAct guests male, female, transand intersex are welcome
Please e mail for further detail
Rainbow Network
Tom of Finland Talk £8 Rupert Smith. Drawing class to follow
Brokeback Mountain (part of Gay Camberwell Film Festival; different film every Tuesday in November
5W / London
Liverpool Blue Coats Arts Centre, School Lane / All day
8pm / ECHR Meeting
Jackie Kaye £10/£8
6Th / V&A London
Liverpool Unity
Carrs Lane Church Centre, Carrs Lane, Birmingham, B4 7SX. / 7pm
7pm
8.15am - 5.30pm / Stonewall Awards Ceremony £125 020 7593 1874 or
Dance: Liverpool is Burning £8/£6
Transforming Faith Institute For map and details of the venue click here
7F / Liverpool Unity 2
Liverpool Unity 1
London Greenwich MetroCentre
110 Norman Road, Greenwich
Ritzy Picture House Brixton / 8.30pm
7pm
6-8pm
evening / Miracle by Gerry Potter £8/£5
Dance: Liverpool is Burning £8/£6
Free Drinks Launch of Penelope’s Pitstop: Free drop in Centre for advice and testing for women who have sex with women
020 8305 5000
Transgender Film Festival
8Sa / Drill Hall Chenies Street London (Tottenham Court Road Tube)
Liverpool Unity 2
Liverpool Adelphi Hotel Ballroom
Ritzy Picture House Brixton / 7.30pm
8.30pm
8-1am
evening / The Drill Hall Darlings: Talking Dirty £6.50 £5.50 concs
020 7307 5060
Miracle by Gerry Potter £8/£5
The Grand Vogue Ball. £10+booking fee Miracle by Gerry Potter £8/£5
Transgender Film Festival
9Su / Liverpool Bar Euro Whitechapel
Ritzy Picture House Brixton / 8pm
evening / Lady Windermere’s Fan Club £10
Transgender Film Festival
10M / McKenzie Pavilion Gallery space in Finsbury Park. London
Liverpool Costa Cafe
/ 12- 6 PM
7.30pm / GFest Visual arts Exhibition Entry Free
(including weekends) Private view on 10th Nov. By invitation. Open to public till 28th
Poetry
11T / Bernie Grant Arts Centre London
Liverpool Sefton Park Community Library, Aigburth Road
Liverpool Unity 2
London
London: Son and Doves, Coldharbour Lane Camberwell / 7 - 9 PM
6pm
9pm
TBA
8pm / GFest Theatre workshop FREE ENTRY
Liverpool Our Story Exhibition Launch
Lavender Girls. Comedy £10/£8
Spectrum Presents Dr Lorimer and Dr Seal from the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic to give a Talk. £2 entry for details
But I’m a Cheerleader (part of Gay Camberwell Film Festival; different film every Tuesday in November
12W / Bernie Grant Arts Centre London
Liverpool Bluecoats Arts Centre
Liverpool Bluecoats Arts Centre
Liverpool Unity 2 / 7 - 9 pm
6pm
8pm
9pm / Creative Writing workshop FREE ENTRY
Lesbian Pulp Fiction £6/£5
Jake Arnott £5
Lavender Club Variety Night £10/£8
13Th / Rich Mix Cinema and café bar, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Film Café London
Luton Library Theatre
Liverpool Unity Theatre
Liverpool Unity Theatre
London
*Sidney Miller Court
26-28 Crown Street, Acton, London W3 8SN
Nearest tube station is Acton Town.
Buses to Acton: E3, 70, 207, 266, 427, 440 and 607. / 6.30
7.30
6:30 - 7:30 pm
7.45pm
6pm
8pm
12.20pm – 3.30pm / GFest: Informal Discussion: Topher Campbell
Short film screening. Details
GFest Rich Mix Café FREE ENTRY
Ceri Dupree: Gown and Out £12
Caravan by Russell Barr £4/£3 Liverpool Unity Theatre
Drama Queen by Shaun Duggan £12/£10
LGBT information day for older people . We invite you to join us to discuss the launch of our west London
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) forum for older people. For more information, please call 020 8762 3087 or 07736 171 836
Notting Hill Home Support
• Discuss LGBT issues with our professional advisors
• Information stalls from our partner organisations
• Entertainment from Association of Greater London Older Women
• Lunch and refreshments
Live life to the full
14F / Rich Mix Cinema and café bar, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Drill Hall Chenies Street London (Tottenham Court Road Tube)
Liverpool Unity Theatre
Liverpool Unity 2
Liverpool Venue
Bristol Marriott Hotel / 6.30
7.30
8pm
7pm
7.30
All day / GFest:Informal Discussion: Pratibha Parmar
Short film screening. Details
Miracle a new play by Gerry Potter
directed by Mike Heath£10£8 concessions (Also 15th)020 7307 5060
Drama Queen by Shaun Duggan £12/£10
Dance: Horsemeat £7/£5
Art Cabaret with Maggi Hambling £7/£5
UNISON LGBT Conference. For visitor registration go to
15Sa / Drill Hall Chenies Street London (Tottenham Court Road Tube)
Liverpool Unity Theatre
St Georges Hall. Liverpool
Liverpool Unity Theatre
Liverpool Unity 2
Birmingham Red Lion Kings Heath B14 7LY
Bristol Marriott Hotel / 7.30pm
12-5pm
TBC
8pm
7pm
evening
All day / Fit, by Rikki Beadle Blair. Devised for students at KS3, this play deals with homophobic bullying. £15 £10 concs. 020 7307 5060
Our Story Liverpool. Workshop. Free
An Evening with April Ashley Tickets: £10.00 (£8.00 concessions) can beobtained from:News From Nowhere , Bold Street, LiverpoolTel: 0151 708 7270 - Email:
Unity Theatre , Hope Place , Liverpool
Tel: 0151 709 4988 - Email:
Drama Queen by Shaun Duggan £12/£10
Dance: Horsemeat £7/£5
Chris While and Julie Matthews, patrons of Rainbow Voices, the West Midlands LGB choir, gave a guest performance at the choir's July 08 concert, thrilling many of the audience who had not heard their music before. Now you have a chance to hear them again soon. Book now as tickets are selling out fast!
Tickets from 0121 2025000 (Ticket Hotline at Marketing Birmingham)
OR 0844 888 3883 - Birmingham Visitor Centre.
Price: £11.00 or £9.00 concessions/members of Red Lion Folk Club.
Plus £1.20 booking fee.
UNISON LGBT Conference
16Su / Hilton Metropole Hotel
Kings Road
East Sussex
Brighton
BN1 2FU
Warwick Street Soho
Hitchin, Herts. The Sun Inn
Bristol Marriott Hotel / Noon-5
5pm
Evening
All day / The Gay Wedding Show 01932 571 286
Catholic LGBT mass
Chris While and Julie Matthews. See above
UNISON LGBT Conference
17M / Victoria and Albert Museum
Bernie Grant Arts Centre London / 11-3
7pm / Write Queer London Workshop. Free.
GFest: Musical Theatre workshopFREE ENTRY
18T / University Of The Arts London
11 Tufton Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3QB
King's College LondonStrand
LondonWC2R 2LS
London: Son and Doves, Coldharbour Lane Camberwell
/ 7pm
10:00am - 4:30 pm
5.15pm
8pm / GFest: LGBT Arts Debate FREE ENTRY
Housing, Health and Social Care Issues Affecting Older Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People The event is free and open to all but you need to register. Full details and registration information are in the email below.
Ryan Powell (film) discusses the lifetime potential of the erotic films of Peter de Rome. Room KO.16 South Range
Prick Up Your Ears (part of Gay Camberwell Film Festival; different film every Tuesday in November
19W / Bernie Grant Arts Centre London
Rose Court, Conference Rooms 3&4, 2nd
Floor, 2 Southwark Bridge, London
SE1 9HS
London: The Castle, Camberwell Church Street / 7pm
11-4
7pm / GFest: Drama Therapy Workshop
RAISE Disability network Seminar. For further information and to request a booking
form, please contact:Paul Juch 0207-210-8711 or email:
Gay Camberwell Launch Party. Guests Stella Duffy and Paul Burston
20Th / London Roehampton University
Northern Ireland / 7.30pm
evening / Wandsworth LGBT Forum AGM in the Portrait Room at Frobel College
Showstoppers (music from the shows), Millenium Forum Derry Book by Fri 7th Nov.
21F / Rich Mix London
UCU, Britannia St, nr. Kings Cross
London / 7.30pm
10-4 / GFest performance Evening
Visible and Valued: Sexual Orientation Equality in FE. Fee up t0 £60
22Sa / London Whitehall Place
Rich Mix London
Glass Bar London
Carrs Lane Church Centre, Carrs Lane, Birmingham, B4 7SX. / 6.30
7.30pm
9.30-late
1.30 - 5.30pm / Women Only Reclaim the Night march. Starts Whitehall Place. Ends with Rally at Friends Meeting House Euston
GFest performance Evening
GFest: Hats & Masks theme party
LEFT - A Pregnant Pause
23Su / Cochrane Theatre London / 7.30pm / GFest performance Evening
Sidney Street LGBTQI Community Centre
49-51 Sidney Street
M1 7HB / 7-9pm / Pride is a Protest Film Night, with vegan food
24M / Cochrane Theatre London
Church House Conference Centre Dean’s Yard, Westminster, SW1P 3NZ
/ 7.30pm9.30am- 4.00pm / GFest performance Evening
Participatory Budgeting (PB), learn how to implement PB as a tool for empowering citizens. Places are limited, so please book early!
25T
26W / London: Ealing Town Hall
The Y Theatre, 7 East Street, Leicester LE1 6EY
London: Son and Doves, Coldharbour Lane Camberwell / 10-4pm
7.30pm
8pm / West London LGBT Conference. Featuring Sue Sanders and Philip Wragg. To reserve
Ceri Dupree: Gown and Out. £12 £10 concs
My Summer of Love (part of Gay Camberwell Film Festival; different film every Tuesday in November
27Th
28F / Newcastle: University of Northumbria
Shrewsbury at the Old Market Hall Cinema. / All day
7.45pm / UCU Conference: “Becoming or Unbecoming? LGBT Research in the Twentieth Century.” Includes Sue Sanders, Emily Williams and Elisabeth Atkinson. Fee £35. For registration form
Rainbow Film Festival Brokeback Mountain
29Sa / Shrewsbury at the Old Market Hall Cinema.
Women’s Library. London metropolitan University
Trinity URC, Buck Street, Camden, London, NW1 8NJ.
Northern Ireland / 7.45pm
12noon
7pm
evening / Rainbow Film Festival West Side Story
Between the Covers. Guided tour
World Aids Day Service of Remembrance and Celebration
Soweto Gospel Choir (music S Africa), Millenium Forum Derry Book by Fri 7th Nov.
30Su / Shrewsbury at the Old Market Hall Cinema.
Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG ( map ).
Newcastle/Gateshead / 7.45pm
All day
2pm / Rainbow Film Festival XXY
Dr. Richard Curtis B.Sc MB.BS, a member of The Gender Trust and head of Transhealth , a private clinic offering comprehensive health care to trans people, is to speak at the Annual General Meeting of the Gender Trust. The business meeting starts at 11am followed by a vegetarian buffet lunch which will be provided. Dr. Curtis will give his address after this (approx 1.30pm). RSVPPlease If youintend to attend for the whole of the meeting please email as soon as possible so that we can arrange catering accordingly
Lesbian and gay parents (and parents to be) social. for details
1 Dec
Mon / Everywhere
Glasgow
Shrewsbury at the Old Market Hall Cinema. / All day
All day till Dec 9th
7.45pm / World AIDS Day
Glasgay! And for one year only The Tennessee Williams Festival. A Six week LGBT extravaganza.
Rainbow Film Festival
2T / Shrewsbury at the Old Market Hall Cinema.
King's College LondonStrand
LondonWC2R 2LS / 7.45pm
5.15pm / Rainbow Film Festival Rainbow's End
Alison Oram (History, Leeds Metropolitan): Love between Women in Historic Houses: Issues in Queer Heritage. Room KO.16 South Range
3W / Shrewsbury at the Old Market Hall Cinema.
Northern Ireland / 7.45pm
evening / Rainbow Film Festival Fire
Brian Kennedy, novelist and crooner. Alley Theatre Strabane
4Th / Shrewsbury at the Old Market Hall Cinema. / 7.45pm / Rainbow Film Festival The History Boys
5F
6Sa / London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB / 9.30am - 4.30pm / Curiouser and CuriouserLGBT archivists’ Conference. Features Sue Sanders and Jack Gilbert£10 /£7.50. Further information: or ring 020 7332 3851
7Su / Sidney Street LGBTQI Community Centre
49-51 Sidney Street
M1 7HB / 12-4.30pm / Queer Café, inc. discussion “How can we go about building a queer movement in Manchester?” 3-4.30
8M
9Tu
10W / Northern Ireland / Arrival(Abba tribute), Millenium Forum Derry Book by Fri 7th Nov.
11Th
12F
13Sa
14Su / St Botolph's Church, Aldgate, Aldgate High Street, London, EC3N 1AB.
The Drill Hall, Chenies Street London / 6pm
2-4.30pm / LGCM Carol Service
The Drill Hall Darlings Christmas Show. £9/7
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