Pride month is about acceptance, equality, celebration, education, and raising awareness on issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community.
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#LGBTQIA
#LGBTplusHM
#educateOUTprejudice
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It's time, it's here, it's LGBT History Month 2021! Go forth, learn and celebrate. The theme is Mind, Body and Spirit.
Badges, resources and a calendar with 100s of events are available on our website:
Use
#LGBTHM21
on social media.
Have fun!
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It's finally here! It's LGBT History Month 2019! We hope you all have a great month learning about and celebrating our achievements. Check out the calendar on our website to find events near you.
(And happy Black History Month to our US friends!)
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@NabbedBash
Not necessarily (you don't have to be straight to be able to procreate. You just have to have straight sex or you can use IVF) but what's the point you are trying to make anyway?
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Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.
320 lives lost in the past year
#TDOR
#LGBTQIA
#educateOUTprejudice
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The theme for the 2023 edition of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia will be โTogether always: united in diversityโ.
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#LGBTQIA
#LGBTplusHM
#educateOUTprejudice
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Happy LGBT+ History Month 2022! Let's Claim our Past together!
Show your support on Social Media:
Check out events & add your own:
Tell us about your event:
#LGBTplusHM
#educateOUTprejudice
#LGBTHM22
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UK
#LGBTplusHM
is here, celebrating LGBT+ peoplesโ contribution to cinema and film from
#BehindTheLens
.
We encourage you to look โBehind the Lensโ to learn about the lived experiences of LGBT+ people.
Together we can Claim our past โ Celebrate our present โ Create our future
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LGBT+ History made today in Spain, with the final approval in parliament of a bill that will:
- provide menstrual leave
- give equal parenting rights to lesbian couples
- introduce self-ID for anyone aged 14+
- ban conversion therapy
- ban unnecessary surgeries on intersex babies
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Welcome to UK LGBT+ History Month 2024!
We encourage you to look โ
#UnderTheScope
โ and learn about LGBT+ peoplesโ contributions to Medicine and Healthcare, our complex history with medicine and the health inequalities we face today.
#LGBTplusHM
#lgbtqia
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It's morning after the night before BUT it's also the first day of LGBT History Month! Go learn and celebrate! Check out our calendar for an event near you.
(Happy Black History Month to our US friends too!)
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Today is 1st October. That can only mean two things: that it's Black History Month in the UK and LGBT History Month in the US. Have a great month, wherever you are!
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RIP Tab Hunter, 86.
A contemporary of Rock Hudson, Hunter was a Hollywood heartthrob (and gay) actor in the 50s and 60s.
He also had a US and UK number 1 hit in 1957...
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A big thank you to all those who organised and took part in events this
#LGBTHM21
. It gets more fabulous every year and we are humbled by it. The month may be over but the need for visibility isn't. Keep on celebrating and learning. There is so much fascinating stuff there. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
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โGay Cureโ therapy to finally be banned in the UK, and The Gender Recognition Act review to go ahead early as part of package or reforms announced by Theresa May.
But Labour describe the measures, which do not include equal marriage for Northern...
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Section 28 prohibited the "promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities, the law ended 20 years ago today in England & Wales. It's legacy remains today.
Education & public services should be inclusive of the LGBT+ community in all our diversity.
#Section28
#NeverAgain
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Our warmest congratulations to gold medal winner
@TomDaley1994
, awarded an OBE in today's Birthday Honours List.
Tom has pledged to use his OBE โto make the whole Commonwealth a better place for LGBT peopleโ.
Good luck - and we'd love to help you Tom. Let's work together.
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LGBT+ History Month ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
It's finally here! It's LGBT History Month 2019! We hope you all have a great month learning about and celebrating our achievements. Check out the calendar on our website to find events near you.
(And happy Black History Month to our US friends!)
#lgbthm19
#lgbtq
#history
#l
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The first edition of LGBT+ History Month UK took place in 2005, with a launch event at
@Tate
Modern in 2004, just over a year after the repeal of
#Section28
.
Since 2006, we have had a new mark and badge every year. Here they all are, up to this year's.
#LGBTHM21
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If youโre on a bus and you witness a hate crime, if you give the police the number on the back of your Oyster/debit card, they can trace the bus and every passenger on it to find the culprit.
The TARDIS has its 3rd unambiguously queer character and we couldn't be happier!
Latest companion Dan Lewis put two and two together leading to Yaz making an emotional declaration of her love for the 13th Doctor.
Doctor Who - usualising LGBT+ lives since 2005.
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LGBT History Month runs throughout February (and a bit) in the UK.
It's aim is to claim our past, celebrate our present and create our future.
The thread below provides you with the basics about this year's edition of the Month.
#LGBTHM21
LGBT+ History Month ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
It's time, it's here, it's LGBT History Month 2021! Go forth, learn and celebrate. The theme is Mind, Body and Spirit.
Badges, resources and a calendar with 100s of events are available on our website:
Use
#LGBTHM21
on social media.
Have fun!
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Huge congratulations to Strictly 2021 finalists, Team Jojo! Their participation is a major step forward for the usualisation of the LGBT+ community on television and in society as a whole.
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Today is the 24th annual
#BiVisibilityDay
First celebrated in 1999, the day highlights bisexuality & the challenges posed by biphobia & bisexual erasure. It celebrates the work of organisations which champion bisexual visibility & equality.
Events list:
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Just hours from its end, 2021 claims another one of our communityโs staunchest allies, just days away from what would have been her centenary. RIP Betty White, with love and laughter.
Say Hi from us to Bea, Estelle and Rue. And thank you.
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Who is the first Trans person to win a Grammy?
Wendy Carlos, she won three in 1969 and was nominated in 1970 and 1988. She composed the soundtracks to Stanley Kubrickโs THE SHINING and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE as well as Steven Lisbergerโs TRON.
#BehindTheLens
#LGBTplusHM
#LGBTQIA
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Patrick Trevor-Roper was a British eye surgeon who played a leading role in decriminalising homosexuality. He provided evidence to the Wolfenden Committee to show that homosexuality was not an illness & highlighted the fatal consequences of homophobia.
#LGBTplusHM
#UnderTheScope
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of pioneer April Ashley.
She was outed as transย byย a Sunday paper in 1961ย and is one of the first UK people to have hadย affirmation surgery. In 2005 April was legally recognised as female and issued with a new birth certificate.
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The four faces of
#LGBTHM19
, on the theme of "Peace, reconciliation, activism" are Mariella Franco, Magnus Hirschfeld, Robert Graves and Marsha P Johnson
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The 18th to 24th February is
#AromanticSpectrumAwarenessWeek
Aromantic (Aro) people typically experience little to no romantic attraction.
Not all Aromantic people are Asexual and Aromantic people can have relationships.
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Do you know what the theme is for UK LGBT+ History Month 2024?
It is Medicine โย
#UnderTheScope
Celebrating LGBT+ peoplesโ contribution to the field of Medicine and Healthcare both historically and today.
Find out more:
#LGBTplusHM
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A very happy 60th birthday to longtime History Month supporter Russell T Davies.
Russell is a Welsh screenwriter and TV producer whose works include Queer as Folk, Doctor Who, Cucumber, A Very English Scandal, Years and Years, It's a Sin and Nolly.
#educateOUTprejudice
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Transgender Awareness Week runs from 13-19 November each year & leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) on November 20, which commemorates victims of transphobic violence.
At this time it is all the more important to support the Trans & Non-binary community.
#LGBTQIA
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