Transgender Day of Visibility with Alexus Savage
Visibility!!!! Celebration!!!! WT(Redacted)!!!! Alexus, I don’t want to be visible, and what the hell have we got to celebrate? Don’t you know that trans rights are being systematically attacked every day? I get that. There are days when I feel overwhelmed with the unrelenting barrage of negative news stories about Trans people. I’ve felt sad, […]
Transgender Day of Visibility with Nathan Callanan
With all the anti-trans rhetoric in our society, it can be difficult to be visibly trans. There is a lot of pressure on trans people to hide who they are and to be ashamed of being trans. We see the same rhetoric gets recycled in public displays of prejudice; its target just changes throughout the […]
Lessons and Learnings from the Lesbian Continuum by Fay Hawkins – IWD25
This International Women’s Day, I wanted to explore two big parts of my life. I am a feminist. I am also a lesbian. Feminist and Queer theories have habitually been placed in opposition with each other. From the beginnings of the Women’s Movement, queer women felt divided between a feminist politics and that of Gay […]
Shout. Invitation to tender: branding refresh 2024
Birmingham LGBT are seeking a creative design company to conceptualise and design branding for its arts and culture strand Shout. Although Shout is part of Birmingham LGBT, it should be able to visually separate in terms of brand. Shout is an all year-round creative programme which makes space for and celebrates the full spectrum of […]
QUEER QUESTION TIME AT THE GALE
On 26th June 80 members of the LGBT community and representatives from 4 of the main political parties took part in a LGBT hustings at the Nightingale Club in Birmingham’s Gay Village. Queer Question Time followed the format of the popular BBC TV programme and included questions on trans rights, LGBT safe spaces and immigration. The […]
Birmingham LGBT announces new Chair of the Board of Trustees
Birmingham LGBT has appointed Steve Ball as its new Chair, replacing Ian Hyde who has stepped down after four years in the role. Steve was the founding Chair of Birmingham Pride Community Trust which was established in 2002 and is now known as Birmingham LGBT. He was instrumental in launching the Shout queer arts festival […]
Birmingham LGBT – AGM 2023
The date for the next AGM will be published in December.
Mpox: August 2022
We are pleased to inform you that this week the NHS in Birmingham and Solihull will be receiving a supply of preventative monkey pox vaccine. As the initial supply is limited, it will be offered only to individuals who self-identify as gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise having sex with men AND report one or more […]
Monkeypox: July 2022
Key facts – There have been a number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in the UK. Although monkeypox can affect anyone, the majority of those cases are among gay and bisexual men. – Monkeypox is transmitted through close contact, so is likely being passed on during sex rather than sexual transmission. – Everyone is being […]
Birmingham LGBT’s Statement on Recent EHRC Guidance
We are deeply concerned by the recent activity from the EHRC, including the recent scrapping of trans-inclusive guidance for schools, and Monday’s published webpage “Separate and single-sex service providers: a guide on the Equality Act sex and gender reassignment provisions”. This new webpage goes further than their own pre-existing statutory code of practice (which remains […]