LGBT+ History Month runs from 1 February – 28 February 2019. This year’s national themes are: love, reconciliation, activism and celebration.
Led by the Students’ Union and in collaboration with the LGBT+ Student Society, a variety of events to celebrate LGBT+ History have been announced.
Professor Sir Christopher Snowden will be raising the rainbow flag on Friday 1 February at 09:00 alongside the LGBT+ Student Society President to mark the beginning of the month’s events.
You can find a list of events in the table below, including external events such as Student Pride (London). You can also visit SUSU’s events page and the SUSU LGBT+ page.
As well as events taking place across our campuses, keep an eye on SUSSED News for a series of posts featuring staff and student stories around their experience of LGBT+.
If you have any questions, please contact SUSU by emailing: [email protected]
Interested in finding out about other diversity events? Check out the Diversity Calendar.
| February 2019 | Event Name | Description | Time | Location |
| 1 | Raising rainbow flag | Join the University of Southampton Vice Chancellor and the President of the LGBT+ Society to raise the LGBT flag to mark the beginning of LGBT History Month | 09:00-09:30 | Flagpole outside Hartley Library |
| Rainbow handprints | LGBT+ Society will be on the Redbrick creating a celebratory communal piece of art! Add your handprint to create a rainbow Pride flag and show your support | 09:30-16:00 | Redbrick | |
| 2 | Kroma LGBT+ Meetup | Kroma is an empowering and enabling organisation for the LGBT+ communities, their families and friends, through awareness, inclusiveness and supportiveness. | 15:00-17:00 | The Art House |
| 4 | Lived Experience Event (Survivors Stories) | This is the first event in the Lived Experience series. There will be three storytellers sharing their own lived experiences of surviving abuse – medically, mentally and socially – and also opportunities to learn from the stories that others in the room are willing to share | 18:30-20:00 | Nuffield Theatre |
| 6 | Love Simon | Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity | 17:00-20:00 | Union Films, SUSU |
| 7 | Love Simon | Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity | 16:30-19:00 | Lecture Theatre A, West Building, Winchester School of Art |
| 11-15 | Cake and condoms | SUSU will be visiting a different hall each evening to give away cake, condoms, lube and dental dams for free | 18:00-19:00 | Monday: Archers
Tuesday: Mayflower Wednesday: Erasmus Thursday: Chamberlain Friday: City Gateway |
| 11 | Rapid HIV Testing | Give HIV the finger – a finger prick test is all it takes! For immediate, confidential results Solent NHS Trust are offering Rapid HIV testing on campus | 09:00-13:00 | Building 40, Meeting Room 6 and 7 |
| 12 | Moonlight | A chronicle of childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African-American, gay man growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami | 19:00-22:00 | Union Films, SUSU |
| 14 | Moonlight | A chronicle of childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African-American, gay man growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami | 16:30-20:00 | Lecture Theatre A, West Building, Winchester School of Art |
| 21 | Annual Stonewall Lecture | This event is part of the annual series of lectures organised by the School of Humanities. In this lively lecture Professor Bruce R. Smith will explore the stages and vagaries of the transition in the meanings of ‘queer’. Book your space here | 18:00-21:00 | Avenue Campus |
| 22-24 | Student Pride | Mixing parties, debates, cinema screening, a graduate recruitment fair, exhibitions and workshops, this event is the largest culmination of LGBT student and graduate talent in the UK. Get tickets here | 19:00 on 22 February – 15:00 on 24 February | University of Westminster, London |
| 23 | Hampshire Pride | Hampshire Pride is space for all of Hampshire to join together and celebrate the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and more community. | 12:00-20:00 | Winchester |
| 27 | Pulse LGBT+ Staff Network AGM | Are you a member of staff and passionate about LGBT+ equality? Come along and find out more about the network and ways that you could get involved | 12:00-13:00 | B34/R4005 |
| Queer Britain | ‘Queer Britain’ marathon brought to you by Sustainability Stories and Union Films. “Presented by YouTuber and journalist Riyadh Khalaf, Queer Britain gets under the skin of queer culture and shines a light on the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community.” | 17:00-20:00 | SUSU Union Films | |
| 28 | Pride Party | Join us in a celebration of LGBT+ History Month. There will be live music from local Queer bands and rainbow cocktails to mark the occasion, as well as our usual karaoke in the Stag’s | 17:00-00:00 | SUSU – The Bridge |
| Pride Parade | We will be marching around Highfield campus to Avenue campus and back again to support and celebrate the LGBT+ community. We’re encouraging all student groups and societies to get involved and show their support. If you would like to take part, please register here | 16:00-17:00 | Starting by the flagpole outside Hartley library |
