LGBT+ History Month, February 2022
For LGBT+ History Month, February 2022, the School of Management is encouraging students and staff to attend events and visit online resources in the University of St Andrews and further afield.
This year's History Month is a celebration of LGBT+ artists, especially those who used their talents for political ends or expressed their orientation through their work. The theme for the month is 'Politics in art: "The arc is long"', echoing Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr's quotation from 19th-century abolitionist Rev Theodore Parker who wrote, "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice".
To find events, searching the University's Events pages and the LGBT+ History Month calendar can be a good way to start.
A few suggested historical resources are noted below.
- Available online is the Memories Project, an exhibition of portraits and stories of 'everyday queer people' in St Andrews, shown in the Main Library and the Gateway in 2020 and expanded for Saints LGBT+ Queerfest 2022.
- St Andrews-based visual arts and craft organisation, Fife Contemporary, includes Fife Portraits for LGBT+ History Month 2019 at their virtual venue.
- The Franki Raffles photography collection is one of the Scottish contemporary and social documentary collections of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums. The collection is managed in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University. Franki Raffles (1955-1994), a graduate of the University of St Andrews, left a legacy that includes images made for community groups and campaigns related to the lives and work of women around the world from the Isle of Lewis to Mexico to Russia.
Among the Universty's LGBT+ general resources for students are:
- Saints LGBT+ – including student-led newspaper The Gay Saint
- Advice and support.
Resources for staff include:
