LGBT+ History Month Posted or Updated on 8 Feb 2026

LGBT+ History Month is an annual event established by the Schools Out organisation in 2005. Its goal is to ensure that every LGBT+ person feels safe, seen, and able to thrive in educational settings and beyond. Through education and advocacy, they empower people in various learning environments to create spaces where all LGBT+ individuals feel supported and included.

It's an important time to celebrate LGBTQ+ culture, achievements, and current struggles while honouring the activism that has paved the way for progress over the years, such as the Stonewall Riots.

The accomplishments of LGBTQ+ figures are often overlooked in school curricula. In response, LGBT History Month aims to recognise the sacrifices made by the community.

The organisation promotes a comprehensive approach that increases the visibility of LGBT+ history and people in all their diversity. Each year, they set a specific theme and select five LGBT+ historical figures to highlight, providing free resources for educational institutions, organisations, and businesses. Through their social media channels, they showcase these five historical figures as well as LGBT+ individuals from the UK, both past and present, in alignment with the annual theme. Every day on their Instagram, they share stories of LGBT+ history from around the world. Check it out HERE.

To find out more about this great event and the historical figures they have chosen this year please check out their website below.

LGBT+ History Month 2026 - LGBT+ History Month

To find out more about current and future pride events in your area please visit the Warwickshire Pride website below.

Warwickshire Pride | A registered charity for the organisation of LGBT+ services and events

You may also like to check out some of the other useful websites below, which cover a wide range of services for the LGBTQ+ community.

• Homepage | Stonewall
• How to celebrate LGBT+ History Month in the workplace
• Homepage | Switchboard (National Support line)
• akt - the national LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity
• The Asexual Visibility and Education Network | asexuality.org
• Black Beetle Health
• Brook: Sexuality: What’s Your Sexual Preferences?
• The Clare Project | Transgender support and social group
• Consortium Members (Directory of services and groups for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender)
• FFLAG - Supporting families and our LGBT+ loved ones with pride
• Galop - the LGBT+ anti-abuse charity
• Gender Construction Kit (Information about the legal and medical process of expressing your gender)
• Gender Identity Research & Education Society - Gender Identity Research & Education Society
• Gendered Intelligence (Charity supporting young trans people aged under 25, and information for their parents and carers)
• INTERCONNECTED UK - Home (Peer support and a safe space for people with intersex traits/variations of sex characteristics (I/VSC) and their loved ones)
• LGBT Foundation – A national charity with LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do.
• Homepage - Mermaids  (Supports gender-diverse young people aged 19 and under, and their families and carers. Offers a helpline and webchat)
• MindOut | Mental Health Charity for LGBTQ community
• Pink Therapy | LGBTQ+, Gender, Sex & Relationship Therapists
• Spectra CIC™ | Free Health & Wellbeing Services | London % (Provides online groups for trans and non-binary people open to anyone in the UK, as well as peer support services in London)
• Stonewall Housing – Stonewall Housing LGBTQ+ Charity
• Homepage | Terrence Higgins Trust (Support for LGBT+ people worried about their sexual health, including via a listening service)
• Trans Unite | Find a Transgender Support Group in Your Area
• TransActual (Information for trans and non-binary people on healthcare and the law)
• Tips for everyday living | LGBTQIA+ mental health | Mind