Entertaining the Troops LGBT+ fair at the Library Queer Alphabet Soup – A Mosaic Youth Forum One of Them: From Albert Tuesday 11 February, 8pm Saturday 15 February, 11am to 4pm. evening of LGBT+ Spoken Word – Intergenerational Square to Parliament Square The Bread and Roses pub (Garden Bar) Tate South Lambeth Library Wednesday 19 February, 7pm Afternoon Tea with 68 Clapham Manor Street. SW4 6DZ Arts, crafts, books and more at Tate Tate South Lambeth Library Thursday 20 February, 2pm Wednesday 26 February, 7pm. From 1979 to 1988 Consenting Adults South Lambeth Library’s LGBT+ Back for a second year! QAS is a series Location: On Application Brixton Library Tickets: Free – Booking in Public was one of the leading Fair. The Friends of Tate of readings, poetry and performance Teens will have the opportunity to meet One of Them with Michael Cashman and Theatre Companies in South Lambeth Library’s from literary queer novelists, poets, with older LGBT+ people, so if you are Lambeth LGBTQ+ England. While Gay Sweatshop battled own arts and craft fairs have performance artists and writers. Featuring 13 to 19 or over 50 this event is for you. Michael Cashman has lived many with the Arts Council for funding, this become a popular feature readings and performances from: You can share your story and hear others lives, all of them remarkable: as a Community Theatre group performed of the neighbourhood, this Adam Mars- telling theirs. beloved actor of stage and screen; as History Month 2020 plays, cabaret and musicals in theatres time with a gay flair! The a campaigner for gay rights; as an MEP Jones – Author of and for Student Unions and Gay Groups neighbourhood is, after all, famed for its More details visit: www.mosaicyouth.org. Kid Gloves, Cedilla and as a life peer. Acting on stage and up and down the country, including two LGBT+-friendly environment. uk/intergenerational Introduction and Pilcrow as well screen, he finds his most defining role visits to the Edinburgh Fringe. Peter Contact: [email protected], We’ve got stalls with as many years of as Colin in Eastenders, making television I am delighted to invite you to this year’s LGBT+ History Month. The theme for Scott-Presland, the Vera Lynn of the gay Tel: 07550 124 393 @mosaiclgbtyouth artwork, jewellery, clothing, contributions to history as one half of the first gay kiss February 2020 is: Poetry, Prose and Plays. Lambeth Libraries will host a series movement and founder of the group garden produce, books ever broadcast on a British soap.

journalism. He’ll Photo: Sarah Lee of events including Q&As with local authors, reading sessions for all ages and art as Eric Presland, tells the story of the and comics, and a rainbow be introducing his ‘Butlin’s, child abuse, West End theatre, exhibitions that explore the contribution LGBT+ people have made to all our lives. highlights and lowlights of a rollercoaster The Wave: An LGBTQ+ cupcake competition – which you can new novel Box Hill (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Abba, sex, drugs, prejudice, travellers’ existence. Literary Showcase Lambeth Libraries has co-ordinated this programme to give an insight into LGBT+ enter, by making some rainbow cupcakes – A sizzling, sometimes shocking and tales, EastEnders, activism and bravery, Friday 28 February, 6.30pm. history, giving us all the opportunity to understand and challenge discrimination and bringing them along for 12 strangely tragic love story in the gay biker gay kissing, gay nightlife, , Clapham Library and promote equality, diversity and inclusion. The vibrancy of Lambeth is very well noon on the day. Judging and community of the 1970s. tabloid skulduggery, more enjoyable prize giving for the best- Tickets: Free – Booking reflected in the diversity of our communities and our commitment to equality. I Amelia Abraham gossip than you could shake a rainbow looking cupcake at 2pm. The Wave Clapham Library hope you will join us. – Author of 2019’s flag at’ – Bookseller book of the month There are a few stalls left brilliant Queer Join Michael in conversation at The Wave, an evening of LGBTQ+ for the taking, so get in Intentions: A (Personal) Brixton Library. artists showcasing their stories. After touch with Friends of TSL at Journey Through the success of the first event in Brixton [email protected] if you’d LGBTQ+ Culture, Library November 2019, Liyah Mai Leoni like to sell your LGBT+ wares! where Amelia wrestles has teamed up with Lambeth Libraries’ very own Sabrina Johnson to bring The Fair kicks off with LEAP’s Drag with LGBTQ+ equality and ponders at you all another showcase of amazing Queen under 5s Storytime so it’ll be a what cost does this acceptance come? talented literature based LGBTQ+ thoroughly family friendly big She is also a regular contributor to , Vogue and is the features editor creatives known as The Wave. Cllr Sonia Winifred Gay day out in the library. at Dazed and Confused. The Wave is an ever growing collective Cabinet Member for Equalities and Culture Swithun Cooper has of individuals with an abundance of good published fiction and energy, good vibes and inclusiveness poetry in magazines which is felt throughout the evening as @Lambeth_Council #LGBTHM20 Facebook/LambethCouncil Homosexuality: Power and including Magma, they deliver their stories and poetry told Politics – Brixton Radical Intelligent Life and Poetry through their narrative. Jump on The Produced in partnership with Lambeth staff LGBT+ Forum and Lambeth Public Health Reads book group special London. He has won an Snow Q Wave once again and join them all for Eric Gregory Award, was another night of all the above at Clapham Friday 14 February, 7pm Friday 21 February, 7pm. shortlisted for the Word Library on 28th February 2020 from Brixton Library Clapham Library of Mouth Prize, and is currently on the 18:30pm – 21:30pm. Tickets: £5 + booking (£7 on door) Photo: Nikki Powell Programme events Join the Radical Readers reading group emerging writers programme at the London Snow Q at Clapham “Individually we are just to discuss Homosexuality: power and Library. He is working on a novel about Sunil Gupta and Charan a ripple on the ocean politics by Collective. loyalty and betrayal, set in a community of Snow Q is a re-imagining of Hans but together we are Singh: Dissent and Desire queer anarchists whose members include Christian Anderson’s much-loved After the leading organisations of The Wave” Liyah Art Exhibition launch an undercover police officer. fable, The Snow Queen, combining 1970s radical sexual politics – the Gay poetry, original music and visuals. See you all there! Thursday 6 February, 6pm Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Join us for a great night – All free! This dramatized re-telling uses Brixton Library Group – imploded or dissolved, the Gay Lambeth LGBTQ+ Zine fair Anderson’s enigmatic tale of Dissent and Desire is an attempt to Left Collective formed a research group Our Story – Towards a MANdemic: a drag king cabaret Sunday 16 February, 12pm to 5pm friendship, love and loyalty to explore to make sense of the changing terrain history of Lambeth’s LGBT+ speak to the void that continues to exist Brixton Library Friday 28 February, 9pm. community contemporary themes of social in representations of India, and which of sexuality and politics writ large. This Omnibus Theatre. 1 Clapham Common North Side, Clapham. SW4 0QW A zine and small publishing fair of isolation, gender, sexuality, migration poses a threat to the larger questions anthology combines the very best of Thursday 20 February, 7pm Tickets: £13, £11 concessions LGBTQ+ makers, artists and writers. and exile. of democracy and freedom. So, for their work, exploring masculinity and Lambeth Town Hall. 1 Brixton Hill. www.omnibus-clapham.org/mandemic From Holy Titclamps and Homocore, to At the centre of the story are lifelong us the question was why and what it workplace organising, counterculture and SW2 1RW Join The Family Jewels for a full frontal night of comedy, song, and a disarmingly sexy is we would like to create through our disco, the survivals of Victorian morality Red Hanky Panky and Nancy, LGBTQ+ friends Gerda and Kai, two lost exploration of gendered power. MANdemic: A Drag King Cabaret charts the heady photographic project that could portray and the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis. zines have been popular since the days young people. When winter comes, glory days and spectacular decline of planet Earth’s men. its subjects with dignity and sincerity. A Marvellous For a copy of the book and to join the of punk! With a burgeoning current ice enters Kai’s heart and when Kai scene we welcome dozens of zinesters Their everyday lives may seem banal Party with discussion please contact the library on disappears, Gerda embarks on a Journey with us to the year 3019. After centuries of feminist onslaught, the Gender and queer distros to Brixton Library. at first, but they exposit how people author Ian 020 7926 1056. quest to rescue their lost friend, Wars are over, and the epidemic of toxic masculinity has finally been controlled. The There’ll be an individual zine stall too for negotiate family and society. Elmslie meeting a wise storytelling crow to internet trolls were right all along: men really were under attack. In fact, they’ve been anyone bringing their own zine, so get guide the way. banned. From bro bonding, to the mating tactics of the millennial man, expect a Join Sunil and Charan for a drink, Tuesday 11 out your scissors and glue! For interest Writer Maria Jastrze˛bska. Snow Q fascinating glimpse of the last hurrah of humanity’s most endangered species. reception and exhibition launch. February, 7pm in a stall contact Colette via

Photo: Courtesy of Lambeth Archives features originally composed music, Carnegie [email protected] Starring The Family Jewels drag kings: Beau Jangles, Ben Dyldo, Dan Load, Dickie Library specially created video projections, Martin, Raymond, and Sir. [Sunil exhibition Jpg] An introduction to the historical records of sound design and poetry in English, Join the party and tuck into a the LGBT+ community held at Lambeth Polish and “Ponglish” to show how cornucopia of ticklish memoirs, Archives. This will include examples language can transcend borders. celebrating fifty glorious years from some of their collections: press of legalised love, and starring Snow Q is touring in February 2020 cuttings, GLF election literature, personal some unforgettable meetings with including February 21st at Clapham collections of ephemera, posters for pionqueers, and personal heroes, Library. LGBT+ events, programmes and posters heroines and icons from the world for performances by LGBT+ theatre of entertainment. Organised by The groups such as Gay Sweat Shop at Oval Friends of Carnegie Library – tea, House and material associated with coffee and a welcome from 6.30pm. squatting from the 1980s. As a historical record it is far from complete. Part of the discussion will be around how Lambeth Archives can be more effective in collecting the history of the community. Events for Children Other Events Lambeth Libraries

Mosaic Youth Forum Rainbow Craft sessions Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh: LGBT+ at the library Libraries Contact details: – Drag Academy Decorate your very own Rainbow and Dissent and Desire Art Exhibition February, All Lambeth Libraries Brixton Library, Brixton Oval Workshops: 9, 16 and 23 February, Unicorn Cupcakes session for children! 3 to 27 February, Library opening hours Lambeth Libraries hold special collections SW2 1JQ. Tel: 020 7926 1058 12noon to 5pm Tuesday 18 Brixton Library of the best LGBT+ literature and non- Carnegie Library, 192 Herne Hill Showcase: 23 February, 7pm to 8pm February, Dissent and fiction. During February all our libraries Road SE24 0AG. Tel: 020 7926 6050 Location: On Application 2pm. Durning will be promoting some of the latest and Desire is an Clapham Library, Mary Seacole Ages 13 to 19 year olds Library classic LGBT+ books. Membership is free attempt to speak Centre, 91 Clapham High Street, and there’s a world to read… come in Explore the depths of your drag alter to the void that SW4 7DB. Tel: 020 7926 0717 ego and how to channel it out for continues to exist and check us out. Durning Library, 167 Kennington performance purposes. It’s a great way Design your own Rainbow Necklace or in representations Lane SE11 4HF. Tel: 020 7926 8682 to meet new people. Bracelet craft session for children of India, and which poses More details visit: www.mosaicyouth. Minet Library, 52 Knatchbull Road, Wednesday 19 February, 2.30pm to a threat to the org.uk/dragacademy Contact: info@ SE5 9QY. Tel: 020 7926 0750 3.30pm. Upper Norwood Library larger questions mosaicyouth.org.uk, Tel: 07550 124 393 Streatham Library, 63 Streatham Thursday 20 February, 2.30pm to of democracy @mosaiclgbtyouth High Road SW16 1PN. 3.30pm. Carnegie Library and freedom. Tel: 020 7926 6768 These contradictions make us think about our ethical position when representing Tate South Lambeth Library, communities that are rarely seen in 180 South Lambeth Road SW8 1QP. photographic traditions, beyond its cliché. Tel: 020 7926 0705 So, for us the question was why and what Upper Norwood Library, it is we would like to create through our 39-41 Westow Hill. SE19 1TJ. photographic project that could portray its Tel: 020 7926 1063 subjects with dignity and sincerity. One of Storytimes Waterloo Library, The Oasis Centre, the crucial aspects of these conversations Friday 7 February, 10.30am. 1 Kennington Road, SE1 7QP. Cover photo courtesy of LSE/HCA-Chesterman was the changing nature of the law and Clapham Library. Tel: 020 7926 0750 how it impacts everyone’s lives. The latest Saturday 15 February, 11am. judgement restoring the decriminalisation of West Norwood Library, Tate South Lambeth Library. homosexuality has restored hope, however 1-5 Norwood High Street SE27 9JX. LGBTQ+ History Month the struggle for love and respect is still on. Tel: 020 7926 8092. Wednesday 19 February, 10.30am. A celebration of history, Streatham Library. Sunil Gupta is an artist, writer, activist and curator. His work has been shown arts and literature Tuesday 18 February, 10.30am. This information was believed to be correct at the time it was published, but internationally in over 90 solo exhibitions. Minet Library. may be subject to changes and circumstances outside the control of the A guide to events in Lambeth He is instrumental in establishing a organisers. For more events and information visit www.lambeth.gov.uk/events. Tuesday 25 February, presence as a gay Indian photographer 10.30am. Brixton in the history of photography. Booking: Unless otherwise stated please book by phoning the local library Library. or emailing [email protected] www.lambeth.gov.uk/LGBTHM #LGBTHM20 Charan Singh lives and works in New Drag Queen Story Delhi and London. Singh’s photographic Time is where fairy practice is informed by HIV/AIDS work tales come to life. and community activism in India along Health and Wellbeing Presented by real with a formal study of the history of art Queens. This and photography. event will capture Lambeth Council offers care and support services for adults, carers and the imagination information about public health. We can signpost you to the right places for answers on sexual health and HIV, mental wellbeing, diet and lifestyle advice and fun of the to stay well, health checks, and choosing NHS services. You can access gender fluidity of Once Upon the resource online at: www.lambeth.gov.uk/your-health childhood. A City Puppet theatre By providing Tuesday 18 February, 10.30am : an LGBT rights charity Do It London: The London HIV spaces in and lobbying organisation, which West Norwood Library Prevention Programme deliver a sexual which kids provides key resources for LGBTQ health promotion service called Do It are able to see people who defy In the North of the City, a Princess has a LGBT+ Youth groups people, and families of LGBTQ people: London for gay and bi-sexual men across rigid gender restrictions, DQST allow huge dilemma. She has many splendid STAR: Are you 13-19 years old? information on employment rights, hate the capital. Our experienced outreach crime, , asylum rights, free children to imagine the world in which and hilarious jokes which she has LGBTQ+? Come and join us at our team offer confidential sexual health people can present as they wish. practiced to perfection, but everyone research papers, and an interactive advice, HIV testing and free condoms & weekly Friday group Star! We provide a LGBTQ directory. Tel: Where dress up is real. in the palace is either too busy or too lube in venues most nights of the week. cosy welcoming space where you can feel 020 7593 1850. Email: Follow @doitldn on Twitter where the serious to laugh at them. In desperation With songs, arts and crafts comfortable and respected, connect with [email protected] – team tweet out every session’s venue she sets off into the vast city to see if and storytime – there’s fun others, gain support from our experienced www.stonewall.org.uk and opening hours. For more information there is anyone out there who loves to be had for all ages. It’s a LGBTQ+ youth workers, and take part in on how you can protect jokes as much as she does. standard storytime, with a bit as many of our youth-led activities and yourself from HIV, visit http:// www.DoItLondon.org of extra glitter. Join us in this interactive storytelling outings as you wish! To register, just send CliniQ: King’s College Hospital in LGBTQ+ Writers Challenge Camberwell sexual health service session, Once Upon A City…, as we an email to [email protected] for trans people. The walk-in clinic and mention ‘Star group’. metrocharity. Why not check out our LGBTQ+ writing follow the story of one brilliant princess runs every Tuesday from 4pm to FindOut: developed by our local partner org.uk/youth/metro-star challenge this LGBT History Month? See in her journey from the North to the 7pm at the Caldecot Centre at King’s organisation LGBT Hero this mapping how many you’ve read, pick up a classic South of the City to meet another, INSIDE OUT: Are you 16-25 years College Hospital. Services include STI tool details hundreds of organisations you’ve always meant to read, or find equally brilliant princess. old? Are you a person of colour and testing and treatment; contraception; and services that will allow LGBTQ+ some new titles or authors to inspire you! Londoners to easily access local services LGBTQ+? Come and join us at our counselling; cervical screening; hormone Bring your imagination and your best testing, hormone injection and advice; tailored to them such as sexual health, monthly group Inside Out! We provide All the titles are available to borrow from jokes with you so we can build the sexual assault support; hate crime mental health, and other advice & Lambeth Libraries - see how many you story together, creating unexpected a cosy welcoming space where you support; housing assistance services. https:// The Gender Spectrum Collection twists, eccentric characters and magical can feel comfortable, respected & can read by the end of 2020! advice; and the PrEP findout.outlife.org.uk/ moments. Expect puppetry, shadow play seen, connect with others, gain support On Twitter? Follow @Lamlibs #LGBTHM20 Impact Trial. https:// from our experienced QTIPOC youth cliniq.org.uk/ and hilarious jokes as we head off on a and join the conversation by letting us know TransPALS: is a south London based workers, and take part in as many of our Download storytelling adventure together for 4-7 which LGBTQ+ books you are reading. social support group, providing a safe year olds and their grown-ups. youth-led activities and outings as you DASH Lambeth: is an integrated drugs, space for people of all eBooks Audiobooks Magazines wish! To register, just send an email to www.listchallenges.com/lgbtq-writing alcohol and sexual health service for genders and backgrounds. [email protected] and mention Challenge in partnership with Sheffield young people under 21 operating in For events and information ‘Inside Out group’. metrocharity.org.uk/ Libraries a range of community venues or by http://transpals.org.uk/ lambeth.rbdigitalglobal.com youth/metro-inside-out referral. 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