The focus of this session is to create a deeper understanding of the contextual and historical experience of LGBTQ+ people with a focus on science and medicine. The aim is to help build an understanding of how being queer is not new, but how the LGBTQ+ narrative and experience has often been discounted and erased. The talk will include content on the queer historical narrative through the lens of science/healthcare and how LGBTQ+ activism in the last few decades has started to reclaim the queer narrative globally.

• Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the historical context of being queer as a way to understand more broadly ‘our’ history.

• Attendees will better understand how queer history, like the histories of many communities of difference, has been discounted, discarded or erased; and understand the implications of these actions.

• Attendees will gain some understanding of how the queer historical narrative has been impacted by the medical and scientific communities.

• Attendees will better understand the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement as a backdrop to where we are today with LGBTQ+ equality.

Register here (PSA Network organisations can attend free using the PROMO CODE shared with you internally): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-look-into-our-lgbtq-history-tickets-798277658967