LGBT History Month February 2012
Join OutStories Bristol, your local LGBT History group, and discover the story of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Bristol. contact@outstoriesbristol.org.uk Join OutStories Bristol on Facebook c/o LGBT Bristol, Create Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol BS1 6XN Valentine’s Day @ bierkeller theatre Romeo and Juliet (lesbian theme). 14th-16th and 19th-23rd February Following the success of their gender reversed ‘Julius Caesar’, [read more...]
Love Music, Hate Homophobia 29 February 2012- from 7pm
Eton & Haze ( Jongluers) 28 Baldwin Street, Bristol BS1 1NG Find Jongluers on Google maps £5 tickets on the door OutUWE (UWE’s LGBT Student Network) proudly present Love Music Hate Homophobia. This fundraising event features performers from choirs, circus acts, jazz, poetry and performance art inc. Sing Out Bristol, Anna Freeman, Swing Thing, UWE Drama Soc and Crinkle Cuts. [read more...]
AllOut’s action on Russian Gay Ban: PLEASE SIGN!
From AllOut – the LGBT global campaigning organisation. February 20, 2012. In just one week the city of Saint Petersburg could pass an outrageous bill that will make it a crime to read, write, speak or meet to discuss anything considered “Gay”. Over the past few months 270,000 people have joined All Out in condemning the bill, and thousands of [read more...]
First ever LGBT Adoption and Fostering week 21-26 February
Bristol City Council and North Somerset Council will be holding a joint LGBT information evening on Tuesday 21 February, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm at the Colston Hall in a bid to encourage potential gay adopters and foster carers to come forward. The event will include talks from local LGBT adoptive and foster parents about their own experiences and give those [read more...]
Volunteers needed for photos to feature in the Council’s publications
Bristol City Council is committed to promoting equality and diversity in our city. As part of this we intend to commission a new range of photos featuring same sex couples and families to be used across our publications. To do this we need your help! We would like lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) volunteers from all backgrounds to take [read more...]
Consultation Invitation to Equality & Community Groups
Bristol City Council is undertaking work to transform the way social care is delivered in order to enable people to have more choice and control and to ensure appropriate social care provision for the future. We want to involve people in the social care transformation program so have arranged for a series of briefing events during which we will discuss [read more...]
GOC CycleOut Bristol’s new calendar out!
Cycle Out Bristol’s 2012 rides calendar. Sunday, 12 February 2012 Ride the Five Arches Greenway with Simon 10am Queen Square, bring food and your bicycle lights, forty-mile max, back by 4pm. Sunday, 19 February 2012 Take a cycle tour of locations linked to critic and historian John Addington Symonds led by Gemma 11am Queens Square, back by 2pm. Easy pace. [read more...]
Brian Dowling to host The National Diversity Awards 2012.
The National Diversity Awards has chosen Brian Dowling as host for the 2012 ceremony at The Midland Hotel, Manchester on 21st September. The prestigious black tie event will celebrate excellent achievements of grass-root communities that tackle the issues in today’s society, giving them recognition for their dedication and hard work that positive role models, charities and community organisations do on [read more...]
LGBT History Month 2012 Programme
LGBT History Month Bristol – February 2012 www.bristol.gov.uk/lgbthistorymonth LGBT Book Promotion Throughout the month of February, LGBT Book Promotion at Bristol Central Library and two Branch Libraries For LGBT history month Bristol Central Library, Bedminster Library and Horfield Library will be featuring books by or about the LGBT community. There is a LGBT book club that meets monthly at Bedminster [read more...]
Call for help with Dissertation on fidelity between women.
My name is Danielle Pearson, I am a postgraduate student studying for a Masters Degree in Research Methods in Psychology at UWE, Bristol and I am currenty undertaking qualitative research for my Master’s dissertation. I am looking for participants for my qualitative survey looking at infidelity in women who have relationships with other women. I am looking for women who [read more...]
Have Your Say in the Council’s consultation on Adult and Elderly care. Closes 29th February ’12
Bristol City Council is consulting about the future of adult and elderly care services. This is an opportunity for us all to raise the profile of LGBT elderly care and flag to care organisations, as well as the Council’s Commissioners for these essential services, the extreme degree of vulnerability in which lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender elders are placed, when [read more...]
UK Civil Marriage for LGBT Couples: consultations to begin in March 2012
UK: Civil Marriage for Same-Sex Couples Proposed. A public consultation considering how to make civil marriage available to same-sex couples will begin in March 2012. Launched by Lynne Featherstone, Minister for Equalities, this move would enable any legislative changes to come into effect before the end of the current parliament. Lynne Featherstone MP announces government consultation on equal marriage Hornsey [read more...]
Draft minutes. Here are the DRAFT minutes of our Annual General Meeting, held on 22nd September 2011, at the Council House, College Green, Bristol. You can download them in Open Office, Microsoft Word or PDF formats. Thank you to all the [xx] members of LGBT Bristol as well as to the supporters and observers who attended the meeting. Elections of [read more...]
UWESU and UBU celebrate Black History Month 27-28 October
UWE Students’ Union and University of Bristol Students’ Union are proud to invite you to celebrate Black History Month through an amazing Love Music Hate Racism gig. Our music is living testimony to the fact that cultures can and do mix. It unites us and gives us strength, and offers a vibrant celebration of our multicultural and multiracial society. Love [read more...]
Trans Creative Conversations – Focus Groups, London 21 & 22 Sept.
Issue-based LGBT Arts Organisation Wise Thoughts, based in Haringey, North London, is planning two focus groups to discuss Trans / Queer / Gender queer / Intersex creative consultation & conversations. This is an exciting opportunity for those interested in exploring, and perhaps challenging the biopic nature of gender identity and sexuality in a creative environment. Light refreshments will be provided. If [read more...]
Bristol Black History month 2011
Download the Bristol Black History Month 2011 Programme ..or look at the Calendar view of events. Bristol prepares to celebrate the diversity of gifts that its Black community contributes to the cultural life of the City. During Black History month: stories of courage, stories of struggle, stories of wonder, stories of daring, imagination and humour, stories of victory and creativity, in [read more...]
Would you like to feature in a leaflet on LGBT workers in Bristol?
From Tosin Lawal, tosin.lawal@bristol.gov.uk I am an intern at the Bristol City Council working in the Equalities Department. I am writing to ask if you would like to be part of this short term project. The aim of the program is to collect and carry out a survey on the quality of life in Bristol of LGB people and also [read more...]
