RT @eilidhdouglas
🏳️‍🌈 It’s right to proudly celebrate LGBT history - but that can’t mean glossing over the reality for LGBT people today.

@jamiegreeneUK didn’t pull any punches with his #LGBTHM23 speech this year. Every word of this needed to be said. This isn’t history - we’re living it now.

Archbishop William Laud was a principal advisor to Charles I and an advocate of a more Catholic-style Church of England.

This blog explores Laud's private diary and its suggestions of a hidden sexual identity.
http://ow.ly/AnAt50DiNsm

#LGBTplusHM @histodon #LGBTHistory #LGBTHM23 #WilliamLaud

#MPMonday is William Bankes. Bankes first entered Parliament for Truro in 1810 and was well known in Regency England for his work as an explorer and Egyptologist.

In 1841, Bankes had to flee the country to avoid prosecution for homosexual offences. Read more in this blog 👇 http://ow.ly/9VYH50Dnwrg

@histodon #LGBTplusHM #LGBTHM23 #19thCentury

RT @MrJohnNicolson
As a gay man, I’m proud of the liberal law reform the #LGBT community - and our straight allies - have secured in my lifetime.

#Scotland is now one of the most progressive countries in the world.

However, these changes are not irreversible.

#LGBTHM23 #PurpleFriday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈

RT @AnnelieseDodds
The Conservatives are soft on crime.

Their weakness is letting down LGBT+ people and failing to keep them safe.

Labour will strengthen hate crime laws to make sure perpetrators of anti-LGBT+ hate crimes can’t dodge longer sentences. #LGBTHM23

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/surge-anti-lgbt-hate-crimes-29299248

https://www.diversehistory.co.uk/post/stories-from-norwich-pride-2022 In celebration of #LGBTHM23 here again, is the DHUK blog from @NorwichPride 2022 where we interviewed a range of attendees about their stories and why #pride is important to them. #LGBTQIA #LGBTHistoryMonth #LGBTQ

On the #HistParl blog back in 2020 we heard from guest blogger Caroline Derry, who discussed the legal and parliamentary status of lesbian sexuality following the 1957 Wolfenden Report. Read it here 👇 #LGBTHM23 #LGBTplusHM http://ow.ly/dTOh50DiLFD

@histodon #20thCentury #WolfendenReport

In 2018, Chris discussed his life and parliamentary career for our #OralHistory project.

Read and listen to his reflections in this blog👇 http://ow.ly/t6mX50DhvBJ

@histodon #LGBTHM23 #LGBTplusHM #MPMonday

#MPMonday is Chris Smith, Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury 1983-2005, former cabinet minister, and the first MP to choose to publicly come out. #LGBTHM23 #LGBTplusHM @histodon

“We have a history, transgender people, we have a culture and that we have older people who have made it through all kinds of abuses and negotiated their way to get here. Not a lot of us ― but there are some and to help them realize that things they expect and think are normal ― you are standing on someone’s shoulders who couldn’t do that in their youth.”

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Huffington Post 2016

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/miss-major-transgender-elder_us_57927351e4b01180b52ef264

#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransHistory #LGBTHM #LGBTHM23

LGBT+ History Month is a great time to revisit this artice from National Geographic: 'How historians are documenting the lives of transgender people'

You can read it at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-historians-are-documenting-lives-of-transgender-people

#LGBTHM #LGBTHM23 #Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransRights #TransHistory #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT #Queer

Trans men are not a modern phenomenon. Laurence Michael Dillon, born in 1915, was the first transgender man ever to undergo a phalloplasty.

#LGBTHM23 #LGBTHM #Trans

RT @daniwroejourno
Literally my favourite piece of work so far. Interviewing @CheddarGorgeous was insightful and interesting and I had so much fun writing this up! #LGBTHM23 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/drag-race-star-says-lgbtq-29154390

#London looking fabulous this evening for #LGBTHistoryMonth 🌈

#LGBTHM #LGBTHM23 #River #RiverThames #Rainbow #Gay #LGBT #LGBTQ

Reminder I'll be tabling at the Brixton Library LGBTQ+ Zine Fair this Sat 11 Feb.

I also have two of my prints on display at the LGBT+ Life! Exhibition (same place 😉) if you wanted to see an exhibition of awesome queer artists.

#LGBTHM23 #LGBTplusHM #zinefair #queerart #queerartists #lgbtqart #lgbtqartists #smallpress #indiecomics #dominiqueduong #domduongart #comicfair #lgbtqiaartist #lgbtqiaart

Going to print this week…

OUT & ABOUT WITH LINDEN:
A Queer Archive of the North
— Stuart Linden Rhodes
https://www.pariahpress.com/product-page/out-and-about-with-linden

#LGBTHM23 #LGBTQ #Queer
#Bookstodon #books #photobooks
Review copies available.

#UniversityOfGlasgow lit in 🌈 lights under the clear night sky. Grateful for the week that came by. Looking forward to another meaningful and reflective week ahead. I really feel at home in #Glasgow!

#StrathLife #TeamUOfG #Scotland #LGBTplusHM #LGBTHM23 #UofG

RT @LBFEW: 1/ Today marks the first day of #LGBTHM23, and to celebrate, we have compiled a thread of some of our #SmallButVital charity partners supporting LGBT communities, advocating for issues, and pushing for equality https://t.co/HVwqW6Iayj

Absolute privilege to raise the inclusive pride flag today in Newham London as we begin LGBT History Month. As Cllr Neil Wilson our longest serving 🏳️‍🌈 councillor reminded us we may have come a long way but it is not enough. Threats & violence against our community remain #LGBTHM23 🏳️‍⚧️

3/ @lgbtfriend is one of the UK's oldest charities supporting LGBT communities, and last year they celebrated their 50th Birthday #LGBTHM23 https://t.co/jaWnp2AaGa