LGBTQ+ History Month 2025

For over 40 years, we've proudly championed, celebrated, and supported LGBTQ+ communities across London, and 2025 will be no exception!

You can learn more about our 40 years of life changing work here.

This February, we would love for you to join us in celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month at our upcoming events...

Collective Resistance: Knowing Your Rights & Reflecting on Queer Protest

Sunday 23rd February 2025: 1:30pm - 4:30pm, SE1 9JH

Free to attend. Delivered in collaboration with Southwark Copwatch and London LGBTQ+ Community Centre.

Come learn about your rights while protesting and discuss different ways to take action as queer people. Plus, create original illustrations and art that will feature in our upcoming exhibition 'Out From the Centre: A Tribute to 40 Years of LGBTQ+, Disability & HIV Activism'.

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(Re)Framed Youth – A Screening and Discussion of Two Landmark LGBTQ+ Films from 1982 – 2013

Wednesday 26th February: 6:30pm - 9:00pm, QUEERCIRCLE, SE10 OBN

Free to attend. Delivered in collaboration with QUEERCIRCLE

In 1982, The Lesbian and Gay Youth Video Project formed and about 25 young lesbians and gays made a video about themselves – Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage Perverts. The film ended up winning the Grierson Award for Best Documentary in 1984 and was shown on Channel 4 as part of the eleventh hour in 1987.

In 2013, over 30 years later, Ed Webb-Ingall collaborated with a queer youth group formed with the support of METRO Charity to create a new film in response to Framed Youth. The finished film, Reframed Youth, was then shown alongside the original to a packed audience at the BFI as part of the lesbian and gay film festival.

In honour of METRO’s 40th anniversary this year, we’re screening these two films together for the first time since 2013, followed by a discussion on LGBTQ+ community video making with Ed Webb-Ingall and others.

Come along to share in this historic screening and reflect on the history and future of LGBTQ+ self-representation and filmmaking.

This session is part of our series of workshops for our upcoming exhibition 'Out From the Centre: A Tribute to 40 Years of LGBTQ+, Disability & HIV Activism'.

This venue has step-free access

Book your free place here.

Queer East London Fest

Thursday 27th February: 4:00pm - 7:30pm, Positive East, E1 4AQ

Free to attend.

Featuring our impactful documentary 'Care & Loss', highlighting end-of-life experiences through an LGBTQ+ lens.

Get ready for a celebration of queer culture, art, and community in the heart of East London! Join our friends at Positive East for a day filled with activities, workshops, a community marketplace, delicious food, and a pop-up cinema!

Book your free place here