This month is LGBT history month throughout the world, and to celebrate this LGBT Wolverhampton and local organisations are hosting a diary full of events throughout the month. Here is what is happening in Wolverhampton:
LGBT HISTORY QUIZ NIGHT
Tuesday 7th February – 7:30pm
Join us at The Greyhound pub for an LGBT history quiz. See how much you know about the people in the past that have laid the pavement for LGBT rights in the UK and across the world and learn more about these people.
LOCATION: The Greyhound, 14 Bond Street, Wolverhampton. WV2 4AS.
LGBT MENTAL HEALTH FORUM
Friday 10th February – 10am – 12 noon
For service users, workers and significant others – have your say about Mental Health services, share information and ideas about good practice. Make a difference and affect good practice in Wolverhampton.
LOCATION: Meeting Room, WVSC, 16 Temple Street, Wolverhampton. WV2 4AN.
VALENTINES CELEBRATION
Tuesday 14th February – 7pm
For singles and couples, all welcome, come along for some fun, refreshments provided.
LOCATION: The Mill House, 5b Bridgnorth Road, Wolverhampton. WV6 8AB.
LGBT ART AND HISTORY CRAFT DAY
Saturday 18th February – 11am – 3pm
Come along and have some fun with arts and crafts inspired by some past LGBT artists.
LOCATION: TBA – Call 01902 425 092 or email Martha@lgbtwolverhampton.org.uk for more details.
LGBT MENTAL HEALTH DISPLAY
Monday 20th – 24th February
In partnership with the Mental Health Empowerment Team.
LOCATION: Penn Hospital, Penn Road, Wolverhampton. WV4 5HN.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
Wednesday 22nd February – 10am – 3pm
Know your rights and what to do when things go wrong. Free for LGBT people who live in Wolverhampton. Please EMAIL: Martha@lgbtwolverhampton.org.uk or CALL: 01902 425 092 for more information and to book a place.
FREE FILM: GAY BIRMINGHAM: BACK TO BACK
Wednesday 29th February – 7pm
Synopsis: Join Women & Theatre as they journey through Birmingham’s uncovered LGBT past. Meet Charles, a manual labourer from the 1840s committed to All Saints Asylum for ‘committing unnatural acts’. Meet Fred ‘Freda’ Barnes a Saltley-born butchers boy turned Music Hall Megastar of the 1920s; flamboyant, disgraced and forgotten. In the 1940s meet Annette, wife and mother, as she looks back on meeting the love of her life in wartime inner city Birmingham. And finally meet Leila, a young woman from 2011 searching to find evidence of Someone Like Her in the 1970’s. What can she piece together from the snippets she finds in the old tailors shop?
LOCATION: The Greyhound, 14 Bond Street, Wolverhampton. WV2 4AS.
L:BOW ROOM LGBT QUIZ NIGHT
Thursday 1st March
For more information VISIT: www.lbowroom.co.uk or CALL: 07817 554 802.
