2025 marks the 20th anniversery of the LGBT History Month in the UK.
The theme this year is activism and social change, highlighting the significant history of LGBT+ activists who have pushed for social change.
They have helped shape and create all aspects of society, not just for the LGBT+ community, but for everyone.
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Welcome to our 2025 book choices to celebrate LGBT+ History Month. These ebooks are all viewable from Primo, please click through for the links.
Throughout the 1970s the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of Britain.
United Queerdom evocatively captures over five decades of LGBT+ culture and protest from the GLF to 2020s. Showing how central protest is to queer history and identity.
Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present.
Here the legacies of LGBTQ+ rights activism meet contemporary debates about the right to housing and urban life.
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced many forms of discrimination.
Queer Brown Voices is the first book published to counter this trend, documenting the efforts of some of these LGBT Latina/o activists
Ordinary in Brighton? offers the first large scale examination of the impact of the UK equalities legislation on lesbian, gay, bi- and trans (LGBT) lives, and the effects of these changes on LGBT political activism.
It argues that geographical imaginings of this city as the ’gay capital’ formed activisms that sought positive social change for LGBT people.
LGBTQ movements in Western Europe and North America are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights.
What becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve?
LGBT activist and civil rights history from the 1960s to the 2000s has had a huge impact on our social and political landscape in the UK, yet much of this history remains hidden.
Through personal stories of activists, recorded by young people from LGBT Youth North West, the book explores the 'wibbly wobbly' nature of people's histories.
Based on in-depth interviews with over twenty inspirational Kenyan and Ugandan Christian and Muslim leaders actively involved in struggles for LGBTIQ rights, this book shows how religious leaders in East African countries can be agents of progressive social change through a community-based approach of life-story methodology.
This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region.
These movements, the book argues, were inspired by specific ideas about Europe, which they sought to realize on the ground through activism.
Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights investigates the transformative impacts of global development's sexual rights agenda on queer politics and activism in Ghana.
This book offers fascinating insights into the political economy of sexuality and global development for scholars, activists, and policymakers.
What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common?
Drawing on ethnographic insights and encounters from various sites, this book conceptualizes resistance as situated in the grey zone between barely perceptible, mundane activist practices and highly visible street protests, gathering large crowds.
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LGBT Thought and Culture | LGBT Magazine Archive |
This is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community with content including selections from The National Archives in Kew, materials collected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, periodicals such as En la Vida and BLACKlines, select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers. | Archival runs of many of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT/gender/sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts. |