What's on for LGBT+ History Month 2025

Location: The Hall Carpenter Room (SAW 3.02)

A community bake sale to raise money for the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre.

Please fill out this form if you plan to bake something for the sale!

Location: Centre Building, CBG.1.03

Hosted by The Mannheim Centre for Criminology.

Dr S.M.Rodriguez (Department of Gender Studies LSE) speaks on Ugandan sexual politics.

Learn more and register for a ticket here.

Location: Cheng Kin Ku Building, CKK.1.04

Join us for a research relay on normativity in South Asian public culture, engaging with J. Daniel Luther’s book Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only.

At this relay, participants expand on the contestations with normativity in South Asian public culture and complicate questions of queerness, South Asian transness*, sex worker positionalities, and new masculinities in South Asia. 

Learn more and register for a ticket here.

Location: The Hall Carpenter Room (SAW 3.02)

Spectrum, LSE's LGBTQ+ staff network, will be screening the 2014 film Pride: which explores solidarity movements of how queer activists supported the miners during the miners’ strikes in the 1980s.  

Register for a ticket here

Location: LSE Campus, venue TBC

Join us for an evening with Susan Stryker, a pioneering historian and theorist in trans* studies whose work has profoundly reshaped the fields of gender and sexuality scholarship.

See here for more information, and to register for a ticket.

Location: The Hall Carpenter Room (SAW 3.02)

Join us for a special drinks reception to celebrate the official launch of the Hall-Carpenter Room, LSE's dedicated space for gatherings that promote inclusivity and intersectionality.

The room was named to celebrate the LSE Library’s Hall Carpenter Archives, an extensive collection of archives and printed material documenting the history of LGBTQ+ activism in the UK since the 1950s.

Reserve a spot here.

Location: Centre Building, CBG.G.01

Join us for an evening with documentary filmmakers Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urréa, who will be talking to us about their project H24, a series they commissioned and directed for Arte TV. 

H24 is a series of short original interventions on sexual and gendered harassment that constitute '24 hours' in women’s and gender non-conforming life.

See here for more information, and to register for a ticket.

Location: Shaw Library, Old Building

Join the LSESU for a celebration of QueerFest and LGBTQ History Month in the Shaw Library! This is your chance to connect with other LGBTQ+ students at LSE to celebrate our queerness in a vibrant setting. Make sure you dress to impress with a dress code of ‘Staring Camp in the Eye’. The evening will consist of a drinks reception alongside canapes so you can meet students in a relaxed environment.

Learn more and get tickets here.

Location: LSE Library Gallery

Browse through a selection of LGBT+ materials at your own pace, with staff on hand to answer any questions. Whether you're a newcomer to archives or a seasoned researcher, these laid-back events offer a great opportunity to explore our collections in an informal setting.

Book a place to register your interest and receive reminders about the day or just drop in and stay as long as you like!

Location: Marshall Building, MAR.1.04

Why are critical criminologists calling for abolition now? This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability.

Professor Sarah Lamble and Dr. S.M. Rodriguez bring queer abolitionist and anticarceral feminist perspectives to the forefront, challenging the myths and ideologies that sustain prisons and the broader systems of control they represent.

Learn more and register for a ticket here.