What's on for LGBT+ History Month 2024

Morality Politics and Policy Change in Latin America. The Case of Marriage Equality - Friday 26 January 2024, 12.00pm - 1.00pm

Location: St Clements S.419, or via Zoom.
Presenter: Carlos Alberto ALZA

Carlos Alberto Alza, a PhD Candidate in Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University will join us in London to talk about his fascinating research into why some proposed same-sex marriage policies fail in Latin America. 

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The Global Sexual and Gender Identities Policy Lab’s Works-in-progress series provides a forum for scholars to present their research at all stages of development, to LSE staff and students. 

Learn more about this seminar series below.

Location: The Community Space

More details to come soon!

Location: TBC

An event organised for students by the Alternative Careers Society.

More details to come soon!

Location: Activity Resource Centre (LSESU first floor)

A screening of the first part of the play "Angels of America", organised for students by the LSESU Film Society and LSESU Drama Society.

Location: The Community Space

An in-person presentation of physical items from the Hall-Carpenter Archives, accompanied by a talk by Dr. Gillian Murphy.

More information to come soon!

Location: LSE Library, or online

Join Dr Caroline Derry for a talk exploring how lesbians are represented in Agatha Christie’s work and the insights they offer into the criminal justice system’s attitudes to lesbianism in post-war England.

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Caroline Derry is a senior lecturer in criminal law at The Open University, author of Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three centuries of regulation in England and Wales (Palgrave, 2020), and a lifelong fan of Agatha Christie.

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This event is free to attend but will be ticketed. Click here for more information on the event, and to reserve your spot:

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Location: SAL 1.04

A talk by Dr Dario Sansone of Exeter University. More details to come soon!

Location: CKK

An event organised for both staff and students by the LSESU History Society.

More details to come soon!

Location: Denning Cafe

More details to come soon on the LSESU website:

LSESU Events

Location: Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

Join Professor Jules Gill-Peterson in conversation with Dr Ida Roland Birkvad and Dr Alexander Stoffel for an event about how to study macrohistories of gender, race, and sexuality. 

In current debates about transgender rights, trans people appear as ‘brand new’ and without a history. This myth plays a powerful role in organising the international politics of gender by obscuring long durée histories of gender nonconformity. This also has larger consequences for the way we study history in international studies.

Bringing together perspectives from postcolonialism, gender studies, and Marxism, this event asks how we can study the construction of identity categories across historical periods and geopolitical contexts without erasing their particularities, and why they persist as hierarchies in international politics.

This event is free to attend but will be ticketed. Click here for more information on the event, and to reserve your spot:

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Location: To be released to attendees nearer the time

The Arts & Humanities Research Council has invited theorists, activists, and policymakers already working on 'gender ideology' to explore intellectual resources for new frameworks for politics and theory and also participate in our transnational workshops around themes of Politics, Geographies, Temporalities and Transnational Imaginaries.

Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions is a project led by Professors Clare Hemmings and Sumi Madhok of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). It is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and LSE Knowledge Exchange and Impact. This research network maps the narrative building blocks – the political grammars, conceptual vocabularies, rhetoric, figures, and temporalities – of both ‘anti-gender ideology’ interventions and the political struggles and solidarities engendered in resistance. 

This event is free to attend but will be ticketed. Click here for more information on the event, and to reserve your spot:

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Note that the full 2-Day conference pass has sold out, along with tickets for Day 1 events. Tickets for the Day 2 Keynote speech are still available (at 5.30 - 7.00pm).

Be quick - they are selling out fast!

Location: The Community Space

More details to come soon!

Meeting location: Housmans Bookshop

Ending point - LSE Library
Accessibility - Kings Cross Station is wheelchair accessible with Platform access.

Join us in the celebration of Dan Glass' book, Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History, with a walking tour of the ‘You Think the Dead We Loved Ever Truly Leave Us?’ Kings Cross route.

The tour is dedicated to legendary activist, journalist, Queer Tours of London guide and Gay Liberation Front (GLF) pioneer Andrew Lumsden - Rest in Power

This event is free to attend but will be ticketed. Click here for more information on the event, and to reserve your spot:

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Location: LSE Library Gallery

Join us for an early evening sneak peek at the archives in celebration of LGBT+ History Month! Archives on display will include materials related to LGBT history from the Hall-Carpenter Archives including the Camden Lesbian Centre, London Friend, Gay's the Word bookshop and Switchboard.

This event is free to attend but will be ticketed. Click here for more information on the event, and to reserve your spot:

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Who's Afraid of Gender?

Wednesday 20 March - time, location and registration coming soon

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Works in Progress Seminar series (for both staff and students)

The Global Sexual and Gender Identities Policy Lab’s Works-in-progress series provides a forum for scholars to present their research at all stages of development, from early ideas for new projects to complete papers near to submission. 

Keep an eye on their events page to discover new seminars each term:

Upcoming seminars

Department of Gender Studies events (for both staff and students)

The Department of Gender Studies Events Programme often features interesting lectures that focus on LGBT+ issues and gender identity. 

Keep an eye on their events page to discover new events each term:

Gender Studies Events