A few notes on… LGBT+ History Month
LGBT+ History Month was launched in 2004 by education charity Schools OUT, to promote equality and diversity with a much-needed focus on educational systems.
With 2022 marking 50 years since the first revolutionary Pride March in the UK, this year’s theme is Politics in Art: The Arc Is Long, inspired by the phrase ‘the personal is political’ and Martin Luther King Jr words, ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.’
Like so many people who identify as LGBTQ+, I’ve faced discrimination and misogyny in both my personal life and in business. As our society slowly progresses, the LGBTQ+ community continues to fight for equality for all. Simply that we find solace within our own community - I find real solace sharing a workspace with my wife, in contrast to previous working environments even within my own business - highlights how far we are from building a truly equal society, yet, thanks to the work of many including charities like Schools OUT, we are striving toward an inclusive future.
‘The personal is political’ was a popular slogan for earlier gay rights activists and the words have continued to be powerful for repressed groups, including the LGBTQ+ community and second-wave feminists.
To celebrate this year’s LGBT+ History Month, Schools OUT selected five LGBT+ artists to each represent one of the LGBT+ letters and symbol: Keith Haring, Doris Brabham Hatt, Fiore de Henriquez, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Mark Aguhar.
To mark LGBT+ History Month, we’d like to share with you a few of our favourite LGBTQ+ reads and podcasts, that we enjoy listening to in our workshop…
Homo Sapiens, hosted by Christopher Sweeney
Out with Suzi Ruffell, hosted by… Suzi Ruffell
talkART, hosted by Russell Tovey and Robert Diament
The Guilty Feminist, hosted by Deborah Frances-White
Insatiable, by Daisy Buchanan
Can Everyone Please Calm Down? by Mae Martin
Have Pride: An inspirational history of the LGBTQ+ movement, by Stella Caldwell and Sue Sanders
Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith
The Colour Purple, by Alice Walker
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