Equality: the big picture

This week sees the start of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) History Month. In this guest post, Tom Reaney (Alumni Information Officer and member of SIGNAL! – Sheffield Hallam University’s LGBT staff network) tells us about the background to the month and looks at what’s going on on campus and in the city to celebrate it. […]

Guest Post by Dave Darwent, Associate Lecturer in Sheffield Institute of Education’s Post 16 & F.E. PGCE team I knew I was gay long before I knew the vocabulary to identify or define myself. Looking back as an adult, I knew I was gay aged 5 and I still have vivid memories of things I said […]

Guest post by James Barnett, Administrator in HWB’s Professional and Technical Services Early in the summer I saw an advert on Gay Sheffield’s Facebook page. Volunteers were needed to steward at an event called “the Pinknic”. Something (divine intervention?) told me that I should get in touch. After a couple of e-mails with Nell Stockton […]

Guest Post from Tom Reaney SIGNAL’s communications officer   What is it?  National Coming Out Day is an internationally recognised day to celebrate LGBT+ individuals and their “coming out” stories. “Coming out’ is essentially that tipping point of openness and disclosure – be it widely and publicly, or local and intimately – at which a person […]

There’s a whole day dedicated to raising awareness of the issues and stigma still faced by bisexual people. But what is it, and why is it needed? Bisexuality is still widely misunderstood, misrepresented and stigmatised. Bisexual people are too often perceived as uncertain, confused or simply ‘greedy’. These offensive myths are often perpetuated to such […]