LGBTQI+ History Month Display from our Library and Learning Services at York St John University

By Katherine Hughes, with contributions from Clare McCluskey-Dean and Thomas Peach (Academic Liaison Librarians at YSJ)

LGBTQI+ History Month Book Display 2020

Library & Learning Services are holding a book display in Fountains Learning Centre during Week 4 (17th-21st February) to celebrate LGBTQI+ History Month. There is also a display throughout the month of February of LGBTQI+ children’s books in our Schools Library on the First Floor. Continue reading “LGBTQI+ History Month Display from our Library and Learning Services at York St John University”

The Problem with “Social Progress”: LGBT History Should Teach Us To Challenge The Present, Not Assume Everything Is Sorted

Inspired by responses to the recent National Theatre Live production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Adam Kirkbride contemplates the dangers that arise when we assume the problems of the past are no longer visited upon the present.

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#LGBTHistoryMonth A Talk with Eden Ladley and Rob Noon (NUS Liberation Officers) 5th Feb

Join us for a talk with NUS Liberation Officers Eden and Rob. As part of LGBT History Month they will be sharing stories from their own personal experience and talk about the plans and projects they have for the upcoming months.

Date And Time: Tue, 5 February 2019

13:00 – 14:30

Location:

York St John Students’ Union

If you would like to find a bit more about Eden and Rob and previous projects they have been a part of then click the link below

https://bit.ly/2RPC31q