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LGBTQ+ History Month celebrations commence
by Exeposé
Amy Rushton News Editor
THE Guild have announced their plans to mark LGBTQ+ History Month 2023 with a range of events, campaigns and resources in collaboration with societies and students.
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Established in 1994 and first observed in the UK in 2005, LGBTQ+ History Month occurs every February and is aimed at the remembrance and celebration of LGBTQ+ history and its related civil rights movements. The theme for 2023 is “Behind the Lens”, centred on the work and representation of LGBTQ+ people in film and TV. It will also touch on the marginalisation of queer histories in mainstream film, their contribution to cinema, and the gap between LGBTQ+ experience in reality and their portrayal on film.
The events for the month are aimed at celebrating this history and highlighting experiences of LGBT+ students, in collaboration with the Queer and BAME+ Collective, LGBT+ society, LGBTQ+ Staff Network and other organisations across Exeter and the UK. They will include an LGBTQ+ students community café event, a reading night orchestrated by the LGBTQ+ society, a public lecture and Q&A discussing the experience of transgender students, an online talk on black feminism in music, a workshop on LGBTQ+ terminology and an LGBTQ+ society discussion event, focusing on “What does Queer mean to you?”
In accordance with the “Behind the Lens” theme, several events will focus on the telling of LGBTQ+ stories in the media. This will include medical school film screenings on films relating to the health experiences of LGBTQ+ people, such ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ and ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’, and a screening by the Queer and BAME+ collective and LGBTQ+ societies of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.
The University has provided resources with further information on LGBTQ+ History Month and support for LGBTQ+ students. This included recommended reading lists and film and book recommendations from the LGBTQ+ Staff Network.
Other events going on in Exeter include a Book launch at Book Bag discussing the forgotten 19th century novel ‘Chase of the Wild Goose’ and its impact on queer historical fiction, a new exhibition by the RAMM
