LGBT History Month

WHS Committee Member and LGBT History Month Project Officer at LGBT Youth Scotland Amy Murphy has passed on the following information about upcoming events for LGBT History Month. This may be of interest to WHS members.

For further information go to www.lgbthistory.org.uk below or contact Amy at Amy.Murphy@lgbtyouth.org.uk.

February is LGBT History Month! We are delighted to announce the launch of the programme for LGBT History Month Scotland 2013. This year we have over 60 events taking place around the country and we’re sure there’ll be something to suit everyone. See http://www.lgbthistory.org.uk/2013/01/our-2013-programme-is-now-available/ to download a copy of our events guide.
 
LGBT History Month is an opportunity to celebrate LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) life and culture and to recognise the achievements of LGBT people and communities. Every year we work in partnership with a wide range of organisations and community groups to coordinate a diverse programme of arts, culture and education events.
For more info on LGBT History Month Scotland please see lgbthistory.org.uk or email Amy.Murphy@lgbtyouth.org.uk
Some of the events that may be of interest to WHS members are:
4th Feb, 6pm: Scottish LGBT History: 20 Years after Footsteps and Witnesses
National Library of Scotland, George 4th Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
Free but places limited. Register at www.nls.uk
 
When Footsteps and Witnesses was published in 1993, it was the first opportunity for Scottish lesbians and gay men to tell their own lifestories on their own terms, but it was no more than the tip of an iceberg of unacknowledged history. Since then there have been various developments, particularly in the fields of story telling, archival research, local studies and oral history. Twenty years after that landmark publication, Bob Cant, the editor, will explore the possibilities and the problems for this important area of Scottish history along with Ellen Galford, Jaime Valentine and Amy Murphy. 
 
 
6th Feb, 6pm: Love Out of Bounds, storytelling evening
University of Edinburgh, Teviot (Dining Room), Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AJ
Free
 
In collaboration with OurStory Scotland and LGBT History Month Scotland, Edinburgh Feminists would love to welcome you to an evening of listening and sharing. We invite you to speak about love ‘outside the box’ in every sense. We welcome funny and sad stories, open-ended stories, stories you’ve written down beforehand, and stories spontaneously shared. Contributions will be recorded and archived by OurStory Scotland, and the session will be facilitated as a safe space. The building is wheelchair-accessible; though if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Refreshments provided by Barefoot Wines to help to fuel your storytelling, and there will be time for a chat and a pint after the recording as well. Come one, come all! edinburghfeminists@gmail.com
 
9th and 16th Feb:Kin: Short Stories for LGBT History Month 
 
Eight Scottish-based writers, including novelists Zoë Strachan, Roy Gill and Ronald Frame, have created short stories on the theme of ‘family’, which will be published online at lgbthistory.org.uk through History Month – starting on Monday 4 February with Ronald Frame’s ‘Bill & Coo’. Writers will also perform their work at a pair of free events at Edinburgh’s Summerhall venue on Saturday 9 & Saturday 16 Feb at 3pm, where they will answer questions about their stories, related LGBT issues and creative writing in general. Refreshments provided by Barefoot Wines. See www.summerhall.co.uk
 
 
13th Feb, 6.30pm: Queer Writers in Conversation
Word Power Books, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DB
Free
 
Join writers Zoe Strachan, Hal Duncan and Kirsty Logan and for an intimate, informal event at Word Power, Edinburgh’s leading independent bookshop. The authors will be sharing extracts of their work and discussing with the audience issues of identity, sexuality, and whether genre fiction provides the ideal platform for LGBT writers. Refreshments provided by Barefoot Wines.
 
 
19th Feb, 1.30-4.30pm: Human Library
Kelvingrove Museum, Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AG
Free
 
Don’t judge a book by its cover! Human Library is a concept that is used throughout the world as a tool to challenge prejudice. It works like a normal library, except the books are people and the ‘reading’ is a conversation between ‘books’ and ‘readers’. Come along to the Kelvingrove Museum to browse the shelves! In partnership with LGBT History Month Scotland, the LGBT Domestic Abuse Project and the Curious Project. To find out more about Human Library visit www.humanlibraryuk.org
 
 
21st Feb, 6pm: Fanny and Stella: Book Reading and Q&A
Waterstone’s, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AD
Free
 
Neil McKenna, award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, will read from his sensational new book, Fanny and Stella: the Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England. With a cast of peers, politicians and prostitutes, drag queens, doctors and detectives, Fanny and Stella is a Victorian peepshow, exposing the hidden sexual underbelly of nineteenth-century London. By turns tragic and comic, meticulously researched and dazzlingly written, Fanny and Stella is an enthralling tour-de-force.
 

 

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