LGBT History Month is celebrated in the UK every February. Members of our LGBT+ community have an important history to remember and share with the wider University community. We support all members of our community in organising and promoting events every February for LGBT History Month.
A range of events are taking place, organised by students, staff or members of the local community throughout February 2020.
These include:
– Queering Connections: An exhibition held in collaboration between between iPIC (Intersectionality: Politics – Identities – Cultures Research Group), Winchester School of Art, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Avenue and WSA Libraries. Queering Connections 2020 explores the range and variety of LGBTQ resources held in the libraries’ collections, revealing both obvious and obscure connections.
The exhibition venue is the WSA Library. It runs from Thursday 13 – Saturday 29 February and is open to staff, students, and the general public.
– A screening of ‘BEYOND: “there is always a black issue dear” at WSA, also on Thursday 13 February.
You can register your attendance on the screening’s Eventbrite page.
– Film Studies Research Seminar: ‘Cruising (1980) and Windows (1980) at 40: Hollywood, History, and Homophobia’, with Dr Gary Needham (University of Liverpool). B65/Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, 4-6:00pm, on Tuesday 18 February.
– Screening of Victim (1961), the first British drama film to deal with the subject of homosexuality and decriminalization. B65/Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus, 4-6:30pm on Wednesday 19 February. It will be accompanied with a discussion by Dr Julie Gammon, Professor Mark Cornwall, and Professor Michael Williams. No need to book. All welcome.
– Annual Southampton Stonewall Lecture – Writing Anne Lister: The Real Gentleman Jack. Dr Jill Liddington (University of Leeds) will explore how Britain’s ‘first lesbian’ Anne Lister has been presented by successive generations of editors and historians.
To ensure a place at this popular lecture, please sign up via the event’s webpage.
