LGBT+ History Month
LGBT+ History Month Events
Week 1 (3-9 February)
LGBTea (Student Only)
5 February 2025, 2.00pm-4.00pm
Liberation Room, Percy Gee Building (Students' Union)
The LGBTQ+ Society's weekly queer tea and coffee catch-up, with free hot drinks and a real community feel. Weather you have been coming for years or it's your first one all are welcome at LGBTea!
LGBT+ Staff Forum Social
7 February 2025, 5.00pm-7.00pm
Café & Studio 3, Attenborough Arts Centre
The LGBT+ Staff Forum will be hosting a relaxed social with board games and art materials for current Forum members and interested UoL staff. The LGBT+ Staff Forum is made up of staff who are committed to advancing diversity and inclusion at the University of Leicester for all who identify as LGBT+; working towards making the University of Leicester a welcoming and inclusive place to work and study for all who identify as LGBT+.
Week 2 (10-16 February)
National HIV Testing Week: Trade Sexual Health Drop-In Testing Session
11 February 2025, 12.00pm-2.00pm
Percy Gee Building (Students’ Union Building)
As part of National HIV Testing Week (5-11 February 2024), the LGBT+ Society and Students’ Union will be hosting Trade Sexual Health at the Percy Gee Building to provide confidential and free rapid HIV tests to staff, students and anyone who needs them.
Additional information will also be available on knowing your HIV status, effective treatment, as well as information on PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis).
Take the opportunity to know your status and raise awareness of the importance of HIV testing, increase early diagnosis, as well as increasing opportunities for people to get tested and end the stigma of HIV.
LGBTea (Student Only)
12 February 2025, 2.00pm-4.00pm
Liberation Room, Percy Gee Building (Students' Union)
The LGBTQ+ Society's weekly queer tea and coffee catch-up, with free hot drinks and a real community feel. Weather you have been coming for years or it's your first one all are welcome at LGBTea!
Ride Leicester – Joe Orton Ride
15 February 2025, 10.00am-1.00pm
Starting from: Town Hall Bike Park, LE1 5BP
Ending: University of Leicester
Join Ride Leicester during the Comedy Festival to discover where acclaimed 1960s playwright Joe Orton grew up, explore his local library and find out what books he borrowed, stop at the theatre that inspired his passion for drama, hear extracts from his unpublished teenage diary and uncover his legacy in the city. Dr Emma Parker, University of Leicester, will explain how growing up in Leicester shaped Orton’s life and work.
The ride ends with a chance to dive into the Orton archive at the University of Leicester.
Please bring a bike lock with you if you have one.
First-timers welcome!
Apittame Arts: Creative Writing Group - Theme Love
15 February 2025, 3.00pm-4.30pm
Studio 1, Attenborough Arts Centre
You don't have to be Shakespeare or Maya Angelou; all you need is a pen, some paper. You can create a world outside of the woes of everyday life. Together during this session, I hope to explore with you some creative writing following themes of love and all its forms. All that is required from you is your presence and openness to share the writings that are created in this space.
Ingenious Fools Ltd presents Queer Tales For Autistic Folk
15 February 2025, 7.00pm-8.00pm
Attenborough Arts Centre
You find a mysterious door that you have never seen before. Do you open it? If yes – buy a ticket to see this show. If not – why not?
Join Cerys Bradley (Actually Autistic Excellence Award 2022, as seen on Comedy Central, UKTV, BBC One Wales) and their wonderful, expansive, interactive choose your own story telling comedy show.
LGBT+ Staff Forum Social
15 February 2025, 5.00pm-7.00pm
Café & Studio 3, Attenborough Arts Centre
The LGBT+ Staff Forum will be hosting a relaxed social with board games and art materials for current Forum members and interested UoL staff. The LGBT+ Staff Forum is made up of staff who are committed to advancing diversity and inclusion at the University of Leicester for all who identify as LGBT+; working towards making the University of Leicester a welcoming and inclusive place to work and study for all who identify as LGBT+.
Week 3 (17-23 February)
LGBTea (Student Only)
19 February 2025, 2.00pm-4.00pm
Liberation Room, Percy Gee Building (Students' Union)
The LGBTQ+ Society's weekly queer tea and coffee catch-up, with free hot drinks and a real community feel. Weather you have been coming for years or it's your first one all are welcome at LGBTea!
Week 4 (24-28 February)
LGBT+ Staff Forum Social
25 February 2025, 6.00pm-8.00pm
Rainbow and Dove
The LGBT+ Staff Forum will be hosting a relaxed social with board games and art materials for current Forum members and interested UoL staff. The LGBT+ Staff Forum is made up of staff who are committed to advancing diversity and inclusion at the University of Leicester for all who identify as LGBT+; working towards making the University of Leicester a welcoming and inclusive place to work and study for all who identify as LGBT+.
LGBTea (Student Only)
26 February 2025, 2.00pm-4.00pm
Liberation Room, Percy Gee Building (Students' Union)
The LGBTQ+ Society's weekly queer tea and coffee catch-up, with free hot drinks and a real community feel. Weather you have been coming for years or it's your first one all are welcome at LGBTea!
Professor Loveday Hodson's Inaugural Lecture
26 February 2025, 5.30pm-6.30pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Bob Burgess Building
The University of Leicester's Professorial Inaugural Lecture series celebrates our newest professors and provides an opportunity for them to share their research with a broad audience, including members of the public, in the presence of family, friends and colleagues. As part of our Inaugural Lecture series, Professor Hodson will deliver her inaugural lecture.
Professor Loveday Hodson is a Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Leicester Law School, their research interests are in international human rights
National Student Pride 2025
28 February 2025 - 3 March 2025
University of Westminster, London
National Student Pride is a three day long Pride event and the largest Student Pride in the UK, and will be taking place in London from 28 February till 2 March. More information will follow from the LGBTQ+ Society.
All month
LGBT+ History Month Represent Display
1-28 February 2025
Exhibition Zone, David Wilson Library
Curated from recommendations from University students through the Represent campaign, the David Wilson Library will be promoting and showcasing the recommend titles to highlight the incredibly diverse range of voices in the Library's collection. These titles will be available and on display in the Exhibition Zone, with a full list available online via ReadingLists@Leicester
Resource and reading list
Curated by the David Wilson Library, this list provides a catalogue of titles that are available from the David Wilson Library that predominantly feature LGBTQ+ subject matter.