LGBT Heritage Project
Find out some of the key things the Intercom Heritage project got up to during LGBT History Month (February) 2009! Have a look at our History Month page!
LGBT Heritage in the peninsula
If you're interested---specially if you'd like to be involved in this yourself---send an e-mail to Vicky (at) intercomtrust.org.uk, or call the team on 01392 201012.
This project is making history, as well as discovering it. Future LGBT History Month workers and others will be able to draw on the archive when they want to know about what LGB and Trans people have done, and been, and lived through---and what we are doing now---and all about our communities' positive contributions to life in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Every February is national Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History Month: "Claiming our history, Celebrating our present, Creating our future!"
National LGBT History Month gives a great opportunity to celebrate what we and our forebears have achieved, to remember the dead and damaged with love and respect (and with anger), and to explore the forgotten facts about our contribution to history.
History Month is one of the achievements of Schools Out, the national organisation of LGB and Trans people in Education. This is absolutely as it should be: schools are the places where we all ought to have learned pride in ourselves and pride in our communities. This has not of course been the case in the past: instead, young LGBT people have been so marginalised and ignored in education that school was, and all too often remains, the place which has most consistently oppressed and scared us.
We look to schools to take on the challenge and enable their young people to create celebrations of LGB and Trans pride to benefit the whole varied community of the South West.