LGBTQ+ History Month: Deep dive with Schools Out
Wed, 05 Feb
|Microsoft Teams meeting (RSVP for link)
Join us to learn more about History Month, this years theme and some notable historical figures who campaigned to change the tide and make society a better place.


Time & Location
05 Feb 2025, 12:15 – 13:15
Microsoft Teams meeting (RSVP for link)
About the Event
Schools Out is the body that sets the annual theme for History Month. This year the theme is activism and social change. Join us to learn more about History Month, this years theme and some notable historical figures who campaigned to change the tide and make society a better place. Lynne Nicholls, Chair of Trustees from Schools Out will be joining us in person so it would be lovely to see as many of you as possible.
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About Lynne:Â Lynne is a globally recognised LGBT+ Advocate and top 10 Diversity Hero British LGBT+ Awards 2021. She is active in the LGBT+ community serving as Chair of Trustees for Schools OUT UK (founders of LGBT+ History Month UK), former Co-Chair of the Clarion LGBT+ Network, Events Officer for HouseProud, and she speaks in schools for Diversity Role Models.
Lynne champions diversity and inclusion throughout the UK social housing sector. She promotes the use of an intersectional approach to D&I. Through mentoring she has helped support diversity networks in multiple sectors. She is passionate about creating inclusive education, services, workplaces, organisations, institutions and faith spaces. She loves to bring people together, meeting them where they are and proving safe spaces to ask questions and explore.
About Schools Out: They believe that every LGBT+ person should feel safe, seen and thrive in education and beyond. Through education and advocacy they empower people in all learning settings to create environments where all LGBT+ people feel safe, seen, and supported. They promote a whole school/organisation approach, increasing the visibility of LGBT+ History and people in all our diversity.
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They founded UK LGBT+ History Month to be a dedicated space to celebrate our rich and diverse history, herstory, theirstory. Each year they set the theme, choose five LGBT+ historical figures to highlight and provide free resources to education settings, organisations, and businesses. Across social media channels, they highlight the five LGBT+ historical figures and UK LGBT+ people past and present in line with the theme. Every day on Instagram they share LGBT+ History from around the world. They also helped found the International Committee on LGBTQ+ History Months which encourages other countries to set up LGBT+ History Month’s.