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'Hope will never be silent ' The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning & Intersex (LGBTQ) Workers' Forum provides networking and social opportunities, support and mentoring in Brighton & Hove Council
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wearequeeraf.com
Christmas can bring a lot up for LGBTQIA+ folk.

Alice on how to have yourself a merry, queer Christmas ✨

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How to have yourself a merry, queer Christmas
We owe it to ourselves as a community this Christmas to be each other’s families when our own miss the mark
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December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'The Running of the Deer' by contemporary UK artist Catherine Hyde #womensart
Painting of four deer in silhouette running up a snowy hill by a forest towards a large orange setting sun
December 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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December 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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heatherpaterson.co.uk
The supper club serving up trans solidarity
The supper club serving up trans solidarity
Every dish served is the quietly meaningful act of helping a trans person in need
www.bristol247.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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nionwomen.bsky.social
The lovely people at Escapegoats Anonymous have kindly offered to donate any funds they raise tomorrow to NION women and @goodlawproject.bsky.social, to help further our message next year.

If this looks like the kind of thing that might help you or others you know over the holidays, sign up here 👇🏻
molluscdimension.bsky.social Squid Horse Comics (he/him) @molluscdimension.bsky.social · 14d
🎄🐐🎉 For people who’ve left toxic family (or who want to!) Escapegoats Anonymous: No-Contact Affirming Zoom Christmas Party - sharing, silly games & prizes.
Dress-up welcome but optional.

🎄🐐🎉 www.eventbrite.com/e/escapegoat...

🎄🐐🎉 #mentalhealth #survivors #alternativechristmas #mentalwellbeing
December 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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rossb-brighton.bsky.social
I'll be looking out for Rudolph and her friends tonight! 🔴🦌🦌🛷🎁🎅

Same-sex sexual behaviours are well documented for reindeer, female and male. Read about it in Bruce Bagemihl's Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (1999). #queer #lgbtq #science #nature #Christmas 🌈
Drawing of two male reindeer standing side by side, one of which is courting the other by 'vacuum licking,' or slurping, by which the animal flicks or smacks its tongue against the upper palate while approaching the other male with its head outstretched. The image, one of many, was created by John Megahan especially for Bagemihl's 'Biological Exuberance.'
December 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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jackshoulder.bsky.social
#TodayInQueerHistory
December 24 (2013)
Code-breaker Alan Turing is granted a posthumous pardon for his 1952 conviction for Gross Indecency (code: being gay).
Pardoning Alan led to the UK's Turing Law (2017) which pardoned around 50k men historically convicted of Gross Indecency.
A badge saying PARDON ALAN TURING SIGN THE PETITION against a rainbow background
December 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
lgbtqwf.bsky.social
Moving with the vibrant energy
of the long-day sun,
the running hare calls us to
honour our wild selves,
honour the wild places.
Give space to all,
to plants and animals,
to live and be wild.
Give space to ourselves
to live and be wild.

lindawiebeart.ca/products/cel...
2018 Celtic Festival Fine Art Print: Solstice Hare
I created the Solstice Hare for the 2018 Celtic Roots Festival in Goderich, Ontario. It comes in 3 sizes of fine art quality giclee prints on cold press bright white paper. I have been making artwork ...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
lgbtqwf.bsky.social
As the solstice hare-alds the return of light, we're sending love to our beautiful LGBTQ+ community however you're celebrating this season. 🌟
Whether you're with blood family, chosen family, or carving out precious time for yourself—you deserve joy, warmth, and safety.
colourful Celtic inspired image of a running solstice hare by artist Linda WieBeart - all credit is theirs. https://lindawiebeart.ca/products/celtic-festival-fine-art-print-solstice-hare
December 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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goodlawproject.org
The legal challenge to the NHS’s clinical trial of puberty blockers is funded by a pressure group backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. goodlaw.social/1jop
From Russia to the far right: the shadowy forces challenging the NHS puberty blockers trial | Good Law Project
CitizenGO is backed by Russian oligarchs and linked to the far right. Good Law Project’s undercover investigation shows that it’s ramping up its work in the UK.
goodlaw.social
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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rossb-brighton.bsky.social
🐵 #queer 🌈 #science 🦋 #nature 🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideInSTEM 🐍 #Christmas2025 🎁
Front cover of The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender and Mating Shape Modern Relationships by Nathan H. Lents Front cover of Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes Front cover of Feminism In the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior by Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer Front cover of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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rossb-brighton.bsky.social
There have been some wonderful queer-themed books published this year which would make *FABULOUS* Christmas presents. Here are my top picks (history first, then science below) . . .

📚 #booksky 🌈🗃️ #lgbtqhistory 🏳️‍⚧️🎄 #queerhistory 🎁
Front cover of Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History by Simon Goldhill Front cover of Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer Women by Elizabeth Lovatt Front cover of Queer Georgians: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers and Homemakers by Anthony Delaney Front cover of 50 LGBTQ+ Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by Ben Paites
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
Today we are launching a new series of articles and podcasts to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal 🎉✊🗃️

In this introductory article, Barbara Taylor reflects on a picnic she shared with other editors in 1984, and what it meant to be part of the HWJ collective.
An Editors' Picnic
Barbara Taylor introduces our new series with her memories of a picnic she enjoyed with other History Workshop Journal editors in 1984.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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maurizio79.bsky.social
Nocturnal London - call for papers.
thelondonjournal.bsky.social The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · Nov 20
Call for papers for our new special issue on 'Nocturnal London', edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and @mcmccluskey.bsky.social. Abstracts due in by 31 March 2026.

All submissions and reposts much appreciated.
Nocturnal London: From Torches to Neon Signs in a City After Dark Edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu and Michael McCluskey The editors of this special issue, Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu and Michael McCluskey invite submissions on the theme of London nights. This volume of the London Journal will examine the histories of the city after dark, from its origins in Roman London to the present. Often overlooked, night has long been an essential dimension of urban life: as the city’s appearance change in the lightening of torches, oil lamps, gaslight, incendiary bombs and neon signs, nocturnal imagery, sounds, smells and professions – legal and not legal – emerge from the darkness. For Londoners, the night was never simply the absence of day; it was a time of danger, sociability, and creativity; a theatre of crime and vice, but also of performance, work, and pleasure. The special issue will place particular emphasis on moments when the character of London’s nights was especially contested, including – but not limited to – the Elizabethan, the eighteenth century, the Victorian, the wartime and the postwar city. The Elizabethan period witnessed the emergence of the city’s playhouses, taverns, and nocturnal entertainments, alongside concerns about disorder and moral decline. Eighteenth-century coffee-houses and club meetings reflected the nocturnal city’s uneasy mix of polite sociability and transgressive undercurrents, while pleasure gardens flourished as spaces of spectacle, employment, cross-class mingling, and erotic charge under cover of darkness. In the Victorian era, the introduction of gaslight transformed both the material and imaginative experience of the night, making the city’s streets newly navigable while also exposing poverty, vice, and vulnerability to the gaze of reformers, police, photographers, and journalists. Wartime London, by contrast, was marked by darkness and silence imposed from above: the blackout and the Blitz remade the urban night as a zone of danger, solidarity, and belonging. The postwar decades, and especially the 1960s, brought the era of Swinging London, in which nightlife became emblematic of youth, fashion, music, and cultural revolution. Equally important are the particular districts that have defined London’s reputation after dark, including – but again not limited to – the West End and the East End. The East End has been imagined as a zone of poverty, danger, and cultural resilience, alive with street-level economies that flourished under cover of night. The West End has long been associated with theatres, clubs, and the rituals of fashionable display. Soho, especially in the twentieth century, became a microcosm of cosmopolitanism, transgression, and reinvention, providing a home for migrants, artists, musicians, and London’s gay community, who together redefined the possibilities of nocturnal sociability. Beyond districts and periods, we also invite reflections on the people who navigated, transformed, and reimagined the nocturnal city. The editors are especially keen to foreground questions of diversity and difference. How have London’s nights been inhabited, shaped, and contested by women, by queer citizens, by migrants and racialised communities, and by those whose working lives were tied to the hours of darkness? How was night both policed and celebrated? How did nocturnal spaces serve as arenas of negotiation between surveillance and resistance, authority and anonymity, privilege and precarity? How have representations in literature, theatre, music, art, and film contributed to the cultural meanings of the nocturnal city? We welcome submissions from across the disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, art history, archaeology, urban geography, sociology, performance and media studies, as well as ecology, environmental humanities, and architecture and urbanism. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, as are contributions that combine archival research with theoretical or methodological innovation. Abstracts of 300–400 words, accompanied by a short biographical statement, should be submitted by 31 March 2026. Full-length articles will be in the range of 6,000–8,000 words and are due by 31 March 2027. Please send proposals and queries to Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and Michael McCluskey (m.cinquegrani@kent.ac.uk, scarlett.zhu24@gmail.com, and m.mccluskey@northeastern.edu) with the subject line Nocturnal London Special Issue.
December 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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queerinbrighton.bsky.social
Do you remember the Candy Bar in #Brighton?

Our Community Champion Kate Wildblood, one half of legendary DJ duo Wildblood & Queenie has created a deep-dive into the story behind this much-loved club and venue over on the Queer Heritage South website: www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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queerinbrighton.bsky.social
The Queer Heritage South Live Archive is a pioneering digital community archive celebrating & preserving LGBTQIA+ life and culture in Brighton & Hove - and we want you to help shape it! Join our Archive Advisory Group today, visit www.queerheritagesouth.co.uk/s/queer-heri...
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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resolutionfoundation.org
Most households currently subject to the two-child limit already have at least one adult in work.

Of the minority non-working households, more than nine-in-ten have a child under three or a disabled family member with additional care needs, making any return to the labour market challenging.
Chart showing families impacted by the two-child limit, by work status and specified characteristics: UK 2023-24 Most households subject to the two-child limit (59 per cent) already have at least one adult in work. Of the minority of households that are not in work, more than nine-in-ten (91 per cent) either have a child under three or a disabled family member with additional care needs, making any return to the labour market additionally challenging. Overall, that leaves over 95% of families benefiting from the two-child limit either working, with a child under three, or with a disabled family member.
December 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Read the article here (open access): doi.org/10.1093/hisr... @academic.oup.com
Chewing over the Norman Conquest: the Bayeux Tapestry as monastic mealtime reading*
Abstract. This article offers a new contextualization of the Bayeux Tapestry by exploring its use as mealtime reading in a monastic refectory. This concept
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December 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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transsolidarity.bsky.social
Thank you to every single person who supported Trans Secret Santa UK ⛄

We have broken our previous records, sending festive gifts to the nearly 900 young trans+ people who signed up for 2025 🎁

It's been a horrible year, and it's a privilege to bring some joy 🎄

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Trans Secret Santa UK delivers festive joy to record number of trans+ youth
This year's Trans Secret Santa UK is delivering festive joy to a record number of trans+ youth, with nearly 900 trans+ young people supported by the project for 2025. The community project by Trans+ ...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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hleehurley.com
11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.
December 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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nturavrgcistory.bsky.social
I've had a fun morning of multiple Canadian queer history rabbit holes. Here's some photos I loved, taken by Charlie Dobie, representing Gay Pride and Gay Wrath in 1983 and 81 respectively.
1983 Lesbian and Gay Pride Day parade in Toronto Canada. A large pink banner is being held that reads "Lesbian & Gay Pride Day". A crowd is behind the banner as they walk in the middle of the street. It is a sunny Summer day, with Queens Park visible in the background. A dyke on a bike smiles at the camera. She is wearing a denim vest, adorned with political buttons. Another woman, possibly her girlfriend, sits behind her on the same bike. A nighttime photo of Bathhouse Raid protests in February 1981. A row of police officers stand in the front of the 52 Division police precinct, preventing angry activists from approaching any further. The day before, the Toronto police conducted Operation Soap, a militaristic raid that smashed up multiple gay bathhouses and arrested 286 people. The Bathhouse Raids protest turned towards Queens Park after being denied access to 52 Division precinct. Thousands of gay people crowd the doors of Queens Park, the Ontario provincial legislature, in anger over the militaristic bathhouse raids. Police line the building, preventing protesters from barging inside. Pillars stand on both sides of the photograph, with a crowd gathered between them.
December 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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pinknews.bsky.social
“Make a Promise, Keep a Promise”: that was the resounding message outside Girlguiding HQ today as hundreds of current and ex members, leaders, parents and allies turned out in joyful force to oppose the organisation’s ban on trans girls participation.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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lgbtiscotland.bsky.social
Join us for an accessible LGBTI+ community swap & share at Duncan Place Community Hub in Edinburgh on Sat 31st Jan from 11am to 4pm 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This community event is a chance to swap unwanted clothes, gifts & craft supplies, learn new skills, & have some food together. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...
Graphic with a purple to white gradient background. It says "LGBTQIA+ & Accessible swap and share. Sat. 31st January 11am to 4pm @ Duncan Place Community Hub Edinburgh Swap unwanted clothes, gifts and craft supplies, learn new skills, meet new people and have some food together!" At the bottom is an illustration of two people looking at a clothes rail, some people eating and chatting at a table and a person in a wheelchair sitting at a table with zine materials and a sewing machine. The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are in the bottom right corner.
December 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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gijn.org
Trauma-informed interviewing, clear communication about risks, and working with local partners can make LGBTQ+ reporting safer and more responsible.

As @ginaskchua.bsky.social noted at #GIJC25: queer stories shine a light on how society is organized.
gijn.org
Tips and Advice for Investigating the Stories that Impact the LGBTQ+ Community
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December 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM