Network and Societies Statement
Read our LGBTQ+ Society, SU Pride Society and LGBTQ+ Staff Network Statement for LGBT+ History Month HERE
LGBT+ History Month 2021 – special bulletin
Read our LGBT+ History Month bulletin with the events, activities and resources brought together and compiled by students and staff at the University of Exeter HERE
LGBT+ History Month 2021
LGBT+ History Month 2021
LGBT+ History Month 2021
LGBT+ History Month celebrates annually, throughout the month of February, to provide education and awareness of the issues faced by the LGBTQ+ community and works to combat prejudice against it.
Since 2005 it has taken place on February in the UK and observes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer history and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.
For LGBT+ History Month 2021 the theme is Body, Mind and Spirit.
Find out more HERE: www.lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/
For full details of the event being hosted over LGBT+ History Month, please click below
LGBT+ people at the ballot box
Is there an LGBT+ vote? If so, how does the LGBT+ vote behave at the ballot box? What explains their behaviour? Where do they stand on some of the most important issues facing voters in British politics today - are they Brexiteers or Remainers? Do they support a national lockdown, or do they want pubs and clubs to stay open?
Dr Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte, Assistant Professor in Political Science at King's College London, will present some of his recent work in which he provides answers to these questions and more.
To register for the event click HERE
Wednesday 03 February 2021 14:00 - 15:30
SSIS Honorary Graduate Speaker Series - Baroness Hunt
The University of Exeter is thrilled to welcome Ruth Hunt for an afternoon of conversation and discussion on all things law, parliament, society and change. Ruth will offer her thoughts on inclusive cultures and will explore how tangible progressive change has and can be realised for all in what is often a hostile climate for many. Ruth will also take questions from the audience. In the spirit of inclusion - everyone is welcome!
To register for the event click HERE
Thursday 04 February 2021 14:00 - 15:30
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
SU Pride Society - Film Screening
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Friday 05 February 2021 (TBC)
Disclosure
SU Pride Society - Film Screening
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Saturday 06 February 2021 (TBC)
Being Queer Asian
How do queer Asians champion LGBT equality in the context of development in the West and the recent progress in the East? Organised by the University of Birmingham and supported by various LGBT community groups, Being Queer Asian* will be joined by several queer Asian activists for an insightful discussion on the dynamics between Western experience and local values in their pursuit of advancing LGBT equality in their countries and areas.
To register for the event click HERE
Tuesday 09 February 2021 13:30 - 15:00
LGBTQ+ Lunch Socials
Join the LGBTQ+ Staff Network for their lunch socials during February. Come as part of the community and/or as an ally.
To register for the event click HERE
Wednesday 10 February 2021 12:00 - 12:55
Viral Sites: Scott Burton's Sculpture, Undetectability, and Public Art in the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis in the U.S.
Scott Burton was one of the most well-known proponents of the new public art in the United States in the 1980s, and his work involved making site-specific sculptures of furniture that served the public. These seemingly innocuous functional artworks, however, were based in Burton’s long-running investigation into the queer experiences of public space, cruising, and dissemblance. Burton’s sculptures hide in plain sight, and this talk will examine their undetectability in the context of the first decade of the on-going AIDS crisis. Burton’s sculpture was both materially and conceptually tied up with the cultural battles overrepresentation and contagion, and his works allow for an alternate account of the visibility politics that tend to dominate histories of AIDS and queer art in the 1980s.
To register for the event click HERE
Wednesday 10 February 2021 15:30 - 17:30
Sex and Nature Salon
Are frogs truly on the LGBTQ+ continuum? Why are social media trolls so worked up about it? And what’s the secret to making YOUR favourite creature go viral? Stand-up comedy and fascinating talks combine to present an evening of mind-blowing insight, sexual knowledge, politics and hilarity - with prizes for the audience who leap into the challenges!
To register for the event click HERE
Wednesday 10 February 2021 19:00 - 20:30
My experience of being a LGBT Advisor to the Government Equalities Office
Professor Catherine Meads talks about her experience as a Government Advisor on the UK Government Equalities Office LGBT Advisory Panel. She was appointed when it was set up in April 2019. There are currently nine individual appointees and three representatives of LGBT charities – Stonewall, LGBT Foundation and LGBT Consortium. Since it was set up there has been three different Secretaries of State in charge of the Women and Equalities portfolio. Professor Meads talks about why she applied, how she was appointed and what little they have been able to achieve as a panel since.
To register for the event click HERE
Thursday 11 February 2021 18:30 - 19:30
Disclosure
LGBTQ+ Society - Film Screening
Screening of the film “Disclosure”, about Trans representation in the media.
To register for the event click HERE
Friday 12 February 2021 (TBC)
Pride
SU Pride Society - Film Screening
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Saturday 13 February 2021 (TBC)
Chemsex and queer survival
A talk from João Florencio
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Tuesday 16 February (TBC)
Beyond the Binary: Scientific Thinking about Sex 1900-1950
In this talk Dr Chiara Beccalossi (University of Lincoln) will examine how, with the understanding of intersex variations and how hormones and chromosomes function, the traditional binary definition of sex was challenged at the beginning of the twentieth century. She will also discuss how science has increasingly seen not only gender, but also sex, as a spectrum of degrees between male and female.
To register for the event click HERE
Tuesday 16 February 17:00 - 18:00
LGBTQ+ people in history
A discussion about the representation of LGBTQ+ people in history and the issues of attributing modern labels to historical figures
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Friday 19 February 2021 (TBC)
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
SU Pride Society - Film Screening
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Friday 19 February 2021 (TBC)
Queering the country house
This seminar interrogates the relationship between queerness and the country house, asking how queer/ed approaches can disrupt heteronormative interpretations of such sites - featuring Dr Freya Gowrley (University of Derby), Anthony Delaney (University of Exeter) and Hannah McCann (University of Sheffield).
To register for the event click HERE
Tuesday 23 February 2021 18:00 – 19:30
PRISM Exeter celebrates LGBT+ History Month 2021 with talks from South West based LGBTQ+ STEMM professionals
Dr Melissa Brooks (Met Office) and Dr Alex Dudgeon (University of Exeter BioSpec Group) will speak about their work and their experiences as LGBTQ+ individuals in STEMM.
To register for the event click HERE
Tuesday 23 February 2021 19:00 – 21:30
LGBTQ+ Lunch Socials
Join the LGBTQ+ Staff Network for their lunch socials during February. Come as part of the community and/or as an ally.
To register for the event click HERE
Wednesday 24 February 2021 12:00 - 12:55
Trans and Non-binary Café
Cafes have been taking place online on a private forum. If you would like access and details for that please contact transcafe@exeter.ac.uk. Our forum is open at all times for conversations, with voice chats once a month. We do not use videos and if you cannot talk for whatever reason we check the chat while the conversation goes on so you can still participate. If you are nervous of coming and would like support with it, please do get in touch with transcafe@exeter.ac.uk, or if you’re more comfortable you can contact one of the LGBTQ+ Staff Network’s coordinators and we’ll be happy to help:
- Lena (s.worwood@exeter.ac.uk) she/her
- Jasper (j.f.privett2@exeter.ac.uk) he/they
- Madi (m.k.pollard@exeter.ac.uk) they/them
You can also contact the LGBTQ+ Student Society Trans Officer:
- Dimitri Georgiev (dg411@exeter.ac.uk) he/him
To register for the event click HERE
Wednesday 24 February 2021 12:30 - 13:30
Cornish Queer History Chat
Join us for a 30-minute chat about Cornish Queer history, featuring new research undertaken by Queer Kernow CIC. Followed by a 15 minute Q&A featuring Cornwall Museums Partnership, Cornwall Pride and the Intercom Trust. This event will be hosted on Zoom, you will require a computer and a good internet connection. We will email all participants a link 48 hours before the event.
To register for the event click HERE
Thursday 25 February 2021 11:00 - 11:45
The Log Books Podcast Talk and Q+A
The College of Social Sciences and International Studies, in partnership with the University LGBTQ+ Staff Network are pleased to welcome the hosts of the Log Books Podcast, which explores the UK's LGBTQ+ history through the handwritten archives of Switchboard, the LGBT+ helpline that was established in 1974.
To register for the event click HERE
Thursday 25 February 2021 19:00 - 20:30
Tangerine
SU Pride Society - Film Screening
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Friday 26 February 2021 (TBC)
A Great Unrecorded History - LGBTQ + History and Heritage
Join us for this LGBT History Month talk with Richard Bruce Parkinson. LGBTQ+ desire and identity are embodied in human artefacts across all periods and cultures of world history, from Ancient Egypt to works by living artists such as David Hockney. The lecture will discuss the evolution of a long-term LGBTQ+ world history project at the British Museum in a variety of formats, including the ground-breaking book A Little Gay History (2013), and subsequent exhibitions and trails. It will consider why LGBTQ+ histories are important and how they are best displayed—as temporary interventions or as integrated parts of permanent displays— and reflect on the role of historians in presenting this heritage and in upholding human rights.
To register for the event click HERE
Friday 26 February 2021 17:30 - 18:30
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