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LGBTQ+ work

Statement and objectives

The BSMS LGBTQ+ subgroup consists of academic and professional services staff members and all staff are welcome to join. The group meet regularly to share resources and ideas to promote awareness and understanding of LGBTQ+ issues across the school.

Objectives include:

To create an LGBTQ+ inclusive environment for all students and staff
Promote and campaign around LGBTQ+ issues across the school
Organise events and training workshops for staff and students about LGBTQ+ awareness

Who is involved?

If you are interested in joining the LGBTQ+ Subgroup please email inclusivity@bsms.ac.uk

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Resources

Read our dedicated LGBTQ+ History Month webpage for 2022 to read a full list of resources and recommendations.

Read our LGBTQ+ History Month page here >

Stonewall: stonewall.org.uk/diversity-champions-programme >
University of Brighton LGBTQ+ network information: brighton.ac.uk/equality-diversity-and-inclusion >
University of Sussex LGBTQ+ network information: sussex.ac.uk/equalities/charter/lgbt >

J. Gill-Peterson, (2018) Histories of the Transgender Child (Content-warning: eugenics, medical experimentation and interventions on trans, gender-non-conforming and intersex minors)
E. Heaney, (2017) The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory

LGBTQ+ History Month 2021 - staff recommended reading:

- Julia Serano, Whipping Girl
- Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
- Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele, Gender, A Graphic Guide
- Virgina Woolf, Orlando

Links to local LGBTQ+ Groups:

- Allsorts Youth Group - please click here for further information

Useful websites:

- Stonewall www.stonewall.org.uk
- Stonewall workplace allied programme https://www.stonewall.org.uk/workplace-allies-programme
- LGBT Foundation https://lgbt.foundation/
- Gendered intelligence http://genderedintelligence.co.uk/
- The Diversity Trust https://www.diversitytrust.org.uk/
- Biphoria https://www.biphoria.org.uk
- Gender census https://gendercensus.com/
- NHS England Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT+) network https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/staff-networks/lgbt/