LGBTQIA+

LGBT+ History Month is for everyone; whether you work in education, a museum, library or art gallery, a business, a service, are a member of a network/social group or an individual.

It is celebrated every February across the UK, and was founded in 2004 by Schools OUT co-chairs, Paul Patrick & Professor Emeritus Sue Sanders. It was first celebrated in February 2005.

Every year Schools OUT sets a different theme for LGBT+ History Month and provides free resources for education settings, businesses, services and organisations to help them celebrate and Usualise LGBT+ lives in their full diversity.

From the 1500s to today, this site charts the struggles for love, identity and legislative change faced by LGBTQ communities in the UK.

Article on the Stonewall Uprising and how it lead to the forming of the organisation Stonewall.

This LGBT+ History month and beyond, bring LGBTQ+ inclusion to your lessons with lesson packs and resources from Stonewall.

In this blog post, I will be tracing the history of the word ‘Queer’, looking at the term’s contentious history, while also exploring how more recently it has been reclaimed by people within the LGBTQ+ community – becoming a label that encompasses the fluidity of identity, or the lack of alternative suitable terminology.

There is guidance here on researching gay, lesbian and bisexual histories, as well as transgender and gender identity history.

Choose a trail looking at objects that have a connection with LGBTQ history.

LGBTQ digital oral history is an emerging field built by dedicated activists, historians, and archivists across the web. This hub acts as a growing resource for oral histories practitioners and the public.

A timeline of individuals and organisations who have positively impacted LGBTQ+ life in Britain since the first Pride march in 1972.

How have changes in laws and attitudes affected LGBTQ+ people in Britain? Use this lesson to find out more about LGBTQ+ rights and lives from the 1700s to the present day. The documents are listed chronologically.