To celebrate LGBTQ+ History month, this blog post explores the overlooked life of Elke Mackenzie and the small organisms she studied.
LGBT+ History Month 2024: Researching LGBTQIA+ health
February is LGBT+ History Month. This year’s theme is Medicine #UnderTheScope. Each of our libraries has a display this month of books and/or book covers relating to health and medical […]
LGBT+ History Month: Professor Margaret ‘Meg’ Stacey: Trailblazer in sociology
One aspect of this year’s LGBT+ History Month is to highlight the lives and work of LGBT+ people in the history of medicine and healthcare. This blog post focuses on […]
LGBT+ History Month 2024
Dr Cecil Belfield Clarke Cecil Belfield Clarke was a student, educator, doctor, inventor and international campaigner for the people, for those from the African nations. He spent his entire life […]
Queering Game Studies and Playing With Our Selves: a Retrospective on 2021’s LGBT+ History Month Games Events
by Dr. Joe Baxter-Webb, Senior Lecturer in Games Design In 2021, I enlisted the help of colleagues and students to put together two games-related events as part of CCCU’s LGBT+ […]
Mark Aguhar : a huge impact for such a short life
Mark Aguhar was a genderqueer/transgendered individual who spent much of their life showing the world that they were who they were and that was good enough; in essence fighting against […]
Mark Weston – The Mary Weston of athletics
Mark Weston, national champion, participated in many UK field events, within female athletics of the 1920’s . One, of many, individuals in sport with intersex characteristics. Here’s his story and […]