Tony Fenwick eyes up this year’s LGBT History Month Events.

LONDON, January 29, 2007  –  Now in its third year, the LGBT History Month Calendar for February is filling up with events as never before.  There are over 300 events throughout the nation and tens are coming in every day.

As in the previous two years there are exhibitions and displays, film shows, LGBT walks in Soho, Camden, Hampstead, Nottingham and Stockport, poetry and story workshops, talks about local histories, places and people and LGBT quizzes.

This year, however, I’ve noticed some differences.  There is a talk on computer wizard and Enigma code expert Alan Turing and another on the black and gay American civil rights campaigner Bayard Rustin, as well as a host of other important characters who seem not to have made the textbooks; or who have made them but in a sanitised form.

There’s an evening with Stella Duffy and there are conferences on faith and anti-fascism -on the same day! There’s a conference on LGBT issues and their impact on primary school children. And there’s a screening of Sci:dentity, which deals with where gender comes from.

Moreover, there are some of the weirdest-and-wackiest-sounding events I’ve ever come across! Here are just a few:

● Family felt art in Stockport
● Drag King lessons in Portsmouth
● A tribute to 60’s gay hippies ‘The Croquettes’
● Queer cooking in Manchester
● A Queer Cinderella London
● Something about Uranians
● Camp Royal Navy Stuff
● A gay and lesbian fancy dress walk in Manchester
● Dave Lynn’s drag queen workshop
● The history of lesbian footballers
● A tribute to disco star Sylvester
● A gay ghost walk in Southsea Castle
● Lesbian and gay jazz
● LGBT samba
● Strictly Bona Ballroom

If you want to know more about these events and when they are happening, you’ll need to go to http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/events/calendar.htm and seek them out for yourself.

The calendar is updated every day so you need to look at it every day to stay in touch with what’s happening. And if you want to organise an event and these ideas inspire you, hurry up and do it; and put it on our website. It’s never too late – or too early!

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Posted: 29 January 2007 at 15:00 (UK time)