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 […]
LGBT+ History Month – Ewan Forbes
The life of Sir Ewan Forbes (1912 – 1991) spans a radical shift in the trans experience and his legal battle reverberates through current debate on trans rights and male primogeniture succession.
The Matrix: Action, Philosophy – Trans Allegory?
The Matrix, a 1999 cyberpunk action film, is one of the greatest action films ever made, and one of the most important of late 90s/early 00s era. Written and directed […]
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+ […]
Is it safe to come out of the closet? LGBTQ+ horror creators
Join us as we celebrate the directors, the writers, the costume designers and many more who work within the horror film industry and are proud members of the LGBTQ+ community. […]
LGBT History Month 2023 Film Challenge – Movies to love this February
‘Behind the Lens’ Winter is dragging (see what we did there? 😏), but you can add some colour to it by joining our ‘Behind the Lens’ Film Challenge during February […]
Queer Joy in Cinema
There’s no shortage of queer tragedy on film. Stories of LGBT+ suffering and sadness are all too familiar. And of course bearing witness to and being moved by pain on […]