LGBTQ+ History Month
LGBTQ+ History Month 2026
LGBTQ+ History Month is for everyone; whether you work in education, a museum, library or art gallery, a business, a service, are a member of a network/social group or an individual.
It is celebrated every February across the UK, and was founded in 2004 by Schools OUT co-chairs, Paul Patrick & Professor Emeritus Sue Sanders. LGBT+ History Month is an annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans history, including the history of LGBT+ rights and related civil rights movements. There are events and activities on campus:
- 31 January - Aberration Off the Wall Workshop
- 7 February - International one-day conference - Department of Modern Languages
- 7 February - Aberration Off the Wall Workshop
- 12 February - Aberration Off the Wall, Queer responses to the exhibition
7 February - International one-day conference - Department of Modern Languages
Registration is now open for the international one-day conference ‘French and Francophone Philosophers and the Development of LGBTQIA+ Movements in the 20th Century’ on 7 February as part of LGBTQ+ History Month. It will feature keynote lectures by Dr. Elliot Evans (University of Birmingham) and acclaimed Moroccan author and filmmaker Dr. Abdellah Taïa, alongside panels and student poster presentations. Please contact Thomas Payre (thp42@aber.ac.uk)
Aberration, who programme exciting LGBTQ+ arts and community events, at venues in Aberystwyth and around Cymru, have organised the following for LGBT History Month
Off the Wall workshops | Aberration - writing & performance workshops from Aberration at The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Two inspiring linked workshops for LGBTQ+ adults where we will respond to the portrait exhibition with new writing and performance. Aberration invites you to be part of a thoughtful, joyful group that will create new writing and performance pieces together. In these two linked workshops we’ll share our responses to the paintings and photographs in the Portrait & Power exhibition.
Off the Wall | Aberration - Aberration presents a night of queer joy and performance inspired by the Portrait & Power exhibition at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
A fabulous Aberration takeover of the gallery after hours! Noson arbennig! Off the Wall is a playful, creative, thoughtful and celebratory evening of spoken word and performance to an audience of LGBTI+ people and allies, at The National Library of Wales. Inspired by the Portrait & Power exhibition, bringing the portraits ‘off the wall’, and asking ‘How do we want to be seen?’
PROGRAMME:
At 6.30pm we will gather for drinks and snacks, then lead into the Gregynog Gallery around 7pm for pop-up talks and performances from artists and our workshop group, followed by fun activities, instant portraits and more. A chance to look round the whole Portrait & Power exhibition at the end. Finish around 9pm. Event mainly in English with some Cymraeg.
