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Monuments to LGBTQ+ Relationships

Civil partnerships have been legal in the UK since 2004, and gay marriage even more recently.

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Created date
25th March 2022
Updated date
25th March 2022
Audience
Young People
Parents and Carers
Type of resource
Non-fiction
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The Spinning House

Policing Victorian Sexuality

From its beginnings in 1209 up to the 1900s, Cambridge University was an entirely male institution. Not only were the students all men (and mostly upper class), but so too were the lecturers – and until the late 1800s, lecturers were even forbidden from marrying.

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Created date
25th March 2022
Updated date
25th March 2022
Audience
Young People
Parents and Carers
Type of resource
Non-fiction
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Octavia Hill

Cambridgeshire's Notable LGBTQ+ Residents

Cambridgeshire has been home to many notable LGBTQ+ residents over the centuries. Here's just one to start: Octavia Hill. 

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Created date
25th March 2022
Updated date
25th March 2022
Audience
Young People
Parents and Carers
Type of resource
Non-fiction

Our Glossary

There are a lot of words relating to the LGBTQ+ community that you might be looking to understand better. Here is a few definitions to start off with.

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Created date
25th March 2022
Updated date
25th March 2022
Audience
Young People
Parents and Carers
Schools
Youth Work Professionals
Businesses and Corporations
Type of resource
Guidance
Non-fiction
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travis has a facisnator of 3 burgers and a green net across half of their face. The book has a yellow cover with BURGERZ written in white capitals in a purple box.

Burgerz by Travis Alabanza

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. A burger was thrown at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge in 2016. From this experience they have created a poetic, passionate performance piece based around the 'burger': the texture, and taste of being trans.

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Created date
28th March 2022
Updated date
28th March 2022
Audience
Young People Eighteen Plus
Parents and Carers
Topics
QTIPOC
Transgender
Format
Print Book
Type of resource
Non-fiction
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booktrust website logo is a teal heart with book trust in bold type beside it and the tag line: getting children reading beneath it. he title text for the preview image is Transgender and non-binary characters.

Transgender and non-binary characters booklist by BookTrust

It's important for everyone to see themselves in books - and to discover other people's experiences, too.

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Created date
22nd June 2022
Updated date
22nd June 2022
Audience
Young People
Young People Thirteen to Eighteen
Young People Under Thirteen
Parents and Carers
Schools
Youth Work Professionals
Topics
Bisexual
Gay
Genderqueer
Non-Binary
QTIPOC
Transgender
Format
Print Book
Type of resource
Fiction
Non-fiction

How to be Ace by Rebecca Burgess

When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. Me though? I was only interested in comics."



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Created date
19th July 2022
Updated date
19th July 2022
Audience
Young People Eighteen Plus
Parents and Carers
Schools
Youth Work Professionals
Topics
Asexual
Format
Print Book
Type of resource
Non-fiction
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Pink book with title 'To my trans sisters' edited by Charlie Craggs. A quote that says, 'A love letter to our community from the women who understand' - Jennifer Finney Boylan

To my trans sisters by Charlie Craggs

A collection of letters written by successful trans women sharing the lessons they've learned on their journeys to womanhood, celebrating their achievements, and empowering the next generation to become who they really are

ISBN: 9781785923432

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Created date
31st August 2022
Updated date
31st August 2022
Audience
Young People Eighteen Plus
Parents and Carers
Topics
Transgender
Format
Print Book
Type of resource
Advice
Non-fiction
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A purple book cover with six children holding non binary, panseuxal, genderqueer, lesbian, transgender, progress, bisexual, aromantic and intersex flags and a blue balloon holding the asexual flag.

What Does LGBT+ Mean? by Olly Pike

This book explores identity, assigned sex, gender, love, sexuality, discrimination, privilege, allyship, pride and more. Some of the chapters can already be watched as animated videos at youtube.com/popnolly.

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Created date
15th February 2022
Updated date
28th March 2022
Audience
Young People Under Thirteen
Parents and Carers
Schools
Topics
Aromantic
Asexual
Bisexual
Gay
Genderqueer
Heterosexual
Intersex
Lesbian
Non-Binary
Pansexual
QTIPOC
Queer
Transgender
Format
Print Book
Type of resource
Advice
Non-fiction
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I'm Socially Distancing With... written on a background of multicoloured dots

I'm Socially Distancing With...

We get LGBTQ+ adults to answer all the questions LGBTQ+ young people can throw at them over the internet in this podcast from The Kite Trust. Getting to know each other better in times of social distancing.

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Created date
25th March 2022
Updated date
25th March 2022
Audience
Young People
Parents and Carers
Format
Podcast
Type of resource
Non-fiction
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Pat Arrowsmith

Cambridge's Notable LGBTQ+ Residents

Over its 800-year history, Cambridge University has taught countless numbers of LGBT+ students.

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Created date
25th March 2022
Updated date
25th March 2022
Audience
Young People
Parents and Carers
Type of resource
Non-fiction