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 is ‘Behind the Lens’. It’s celebrating the enormous contribution made to cinema by LGBTQ+ people from behind the lens as directors, screenwriters, editors, costume designers, special effects and lighting directors, musicians and so on.
Westminster’s LGBT+ History Month events
- National Student Pride – Student event - Friday 10 to Sunday 12 February (inclusive)
National Student Pride returns for three days of celebration, debate, careers, music, awards and parties from 10-12 February 2023! Featuring Drag Race Winner Danny Beard, Radio 1's Dean McCullough and Comedian & Writer Kemah Bob, with more to be announced!
National Student Pride is the UK’s biggest LGBTQ+ student event.
Don’t miss the UK’s largest LGBTQ+ careers fair taking place on Saturday 11 February from 12:30pm at the University of Westminster’s Marylebone Campus.
- Nobody's Perfect: Reflections on LGBTQ+ representation on film - Wednesday 15 February, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Location: Gallery space, St Pancras Hospital, 4 St Pancras Way, London, NW1 0PE
An exploration - with clips - of how representation of LGBTQ+ people has shifted in cinema. Join us for an evening of stimulating visual exploration researched by Westminster students with an introduction by Professor Pippa Catterall.
- Westminster Conversations: History, memory and HIV – why a London AIDS memorial matters - Thursday 16 February, 5.30pm to 7.30pm
Location: Regent Street Campus
This Westminster Conversations event looks at the development of plans by AIDS Memory UK to mark the impact of the AIDS epidemic with a London memorial. This event will be run in partnership with the University of Westminster LGBT Forum.
To discuss how the challenge of this act of commemoration is being approached, this event will welcome Ash Kotak, the artistic director of AIDS Memory UK, in conversation with Professor Pippa Catterall, Chair of AIDS Memory UK.
- Q+ Colleague Network and Students' Union Open Miq+ night - Tuesday 21 February, 7pm to 10.30pm
Location: The Hideaway, Regent St Campus
Come join us for the Westminster Q+ network's first open miq+ night this LGBT History Month. The event is co-hosted with the UWSU and will take place in The Hideaway at Regent Campus.
This event is open to any musicians, comedians, spoken-word artists and entertainers in the Westminster community! You don't have to be LGBTQ+, but it helps if you're an ally!
Anyone who would like to perform in any way please email [email protected] and we will put your name down.
- LGBT+ History Month - Soho: Saints, Sinners and In-Betweeners - Wednesday 22 February, 5pm to 6.30pm
Location: Fyvie Hall, Regent Street Campus
At the event, Chris Barlow (Chair, Westminster LGBT Forum) will present a personal account of the life and characters of Soho for LGBT+ History Month 2023.
Chris writes: "I first came across Soho more than 5o years ago as a young student wandering the streets of London trying to make sense of this huge and fascinating city.
"Soho was a bewitching network of streets and dark corners where everybody and everything was not only welcomed but positively celebrated.
"Time has inevitably changed the physical character of Soho, but nothing can dampen its siren cry to the disruptors and creatives who continue to feed the energy of this blessed streets."
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