The University of Westminster’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity is at the core of how we engage with our community.
We are delighted to be supporting LGBT+ History Month in February with a range of events led by our Q+ Colleague Network - some in conjunction with the Students’ Union.
LGBT+ History Month
This year, the theme of LGBT+ History Month celebrates LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to the field of Medicine and Healthcare both historically and today.
Find out more and sign up for events on the LGBT+ History Month webpages.
In addition, we have several events taking place across our University for colleagues and students celebrating the month. Find out more and book your place to each of the following LGBTQIA+ below events.
Upcoming events
- Behind the PLUS! (Marylebone Campus) - Monday 5 February, 12-3pm - UWSU-led event
Find your Community Organisers celebrating LGBT+ History Month to find out more about what LGBTQIA+ means, share stories of 'Queer Joy', get invited to a programme of events within the LGBTQIA+ Westminster community.
- World in Westminster Cafe: Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month - Thursday 8 February, 6-9pm
We invite all members of our Westminster LGBTQ+ community, alongside our LGBTQ+ supporting allies, to celebrate the ‘queer joy’ of LGBTQ+ history through time, place, and space. Join us for Queeraoke (karaoke with a queer edge), Queer Jenga, and help us make a collage of queer joy at Westminster. Pizza will be available!
- Behind the PLUS! (Cavendish Campus) - Monday 12 February, 12-3pm - UWSU-led event
Find your Community Organisers celebrating LGBT+ History Month to find out more about what LGBTQIA+ means, share stories of 'Queer Joy', get invited to a programme of events within the LGBTQIA+ Westminster community.
- Diseased and Degenerate: histories of medico-legal ‘cures’ for being trans - Monday 12 February, 5.15-7pm
Award-winning author Professor Zoe Playdon will talk about her ground breaking work on trans legal and medical history.
- Film screening: 'Badhaai Do' - Tuesday 13 February, 5-8pm - UWSU-led event
Join us for a night of Bollywood film.
About the movie: When a gay man and lesbian woman are subjected to cultural pressures to aspire to marriage, they agree to a marriage of convenience but chaos ensues when they consider their futures.
- Behind the PLUS! (Harrow Campus) - Monday 19 February, 12-3pm - UWSU-led event
Find your Community Organisers celebrating LGBT+ History Month to find out more about what LGBTQIA+ means, share stories of 'Queer Joy', get invited to a programme of events within the LGBTQIA+ Westminster community.
- Open MiQ Night 3 - Monday 22 February, 7.30-10.30pm
The Q+ Colleague Network and Students' Union are hosting the third Open MiQ night
for all to come along and share your creativity, uniqueness, nerve and talent on stage, or just sit back and watch the spectacle if you prefer.
- National Student Pride - Friday 23 to Sunday 25 February (inclusive)
National Student Pride is the UK’s biggest LGBTQ+ student event. Made for students, run by students, and committed to improving the queer student experience across the UK.
- Glen or Glenda? and the History of Trans Healthcare - Saturday 24 February, 1-3.30pm, Gallery space, St Pancras Hospital (in conjunction with ‘Loudest Whispers’ exhibition)
A screening of the ground breaking and gloriously marmite film 'Glen or Glenda?' will be followed by a discussion of the development of trans healthcare at the site (St Pancras Hospital) of some of the pioneering work in that area in the 1960's by a distinguished panel of researchers.
- LGBT+ Students Open Forum - Thursday 29 February, 5-7pm - UWSU-led event
This is an open forum for all students to share/design solutions for issues facing our LGBT+ student community.
Stay up to date with the Q+ Network
Find more information on our Equality, Diversity and inclusion webpages.
