LGBT+ History Month 2025

LGBT+ History Month 2025

Posted by Becca Parkinson - Thursday, 30 Jan 2025

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LGBT+ History Month welcomes everyone, regardless of your professional backgroundā€”be it in education, museums, libraries, art galleries, businesses, services, or as a member of a network, social group, or an individual.

Observed annually every February throughout the UK, this significant month was established in 2004 by Schools OUT UK co-chairs, Paul Patrick, and Professor Emeritus Sue Sanders. The inaugural celebration took place in February 2005.

Manchester University Press is proud to celebrate our queer history titles across our trade and academic list. You can get 25% off all the books below by using codeĀ LGBT25Ā at checkout. Discount code is valid until the 28th February 2025.

Red closet

Red closet

Rustam Alexander

Based on newly discovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LGBTQ people in the USSR.

Queer beyond London

Queer beyond London

Matt Cook, Alison Oram

Looking beyond the London-centric narratives of British LGBTQ life, this exciting book explores the queer dimensions of four English cities - Manchester, Leeds, Plymouth and Brighton.

Bedsit land

Bedsit land

Patrick Clarke

This is the first in-depth account of the band Soft Cell. Written by a leading music journalist and based on extensive interviews, it traces the band's remarkably varied roots, from British seaside entertainments and Northern Soul nights to art school experimentation and New York glamour.

An unorthodox history

An unorthodox history

Gavin Schaffer

This up-to-date history of Britain's Jewish community focuses on the experiences of Jewish people themselves. It offers insight into the lives of queer Jews, Jews married to non-Jews, Israel-critical Jews, Messianic Jews and others.

Welcome to the club

Welcome to the club

DJ Paulette, Annie Macmanus

Hacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ.

As Good as a Marriage

As Good as a Marriage

Jill Liddington

The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful.

Female Fortune

Female Fortune

Jill Liddington

A new edition of Jill Liddington's classic work on Anne Lister's extraordinary diaries, which inspired Gentleman Jack

Queer Objects

Queer Objects

Chris Brickell, Judith Collard

What makes an object queer? This collection considers the question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures and space. Written by established and up-and-coming authors, the sixty-three chapters range from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and the smartphone.

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s

Lucy Robinson

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

Odd men out

Odd men out

John-Pierre Joyce, Simon Callow

Examines the transformation of homosexual men from 'odd' to 'normal' during the tumultuous decades of the 1950s and 1960s.

Queer cinema in contemporary France

Queer cinema in contemporary France

Todd Reeser

Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across five French directors' careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with international release.

The history of marriage equality in Ireland

The history of marriage equality in Ireland

Sonja Tiernan

Tracing the campaign for marriage equality, this book highlights how this movement and the related referendum result have propelled Ireland from a country perceived as one repressed and controlled by the Catholic church to a country that is now admired as a leader in equality of human rights.

Luminous presence

Luminous presence

Alexandra Parsons

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Much of Jarman's powerful, imaginative response to HIV/AIDS can be found in his remarkable books, which Alexandra Parsons argues were critical in changing the cultural terms of queer representation in the 1980s and 1990s.

De-centering queer theory

De-centering queer theory

Bogdan Popa

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.

Dirty books

Dirty books

Barry Reay, Nina Attwood

The fascinating story of fearless and innovative publishers and authors who wrote their own sexual revolution before the sexual revolution.

Horizontal together

Horizontal together

Paisid Aramphongphan

Horizontal together is an up-close look at the cultural and political power of the langourous queer body, combining historical research, queer theory and the analysis of bodily gestures. The book presents a dancerly story of 1960s art focusing on Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko.

Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain

Gay men and the Left in post-war Britain

Lucy Robinson

When the personal became political it changed British politics for ever. Gay men and the left, available in paperback for the first time, explores the enormous impact that gay politics had on the landscape of post-war Britain.

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