'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it' - Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855 Poor ol' Chas. It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟 Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that a vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy! 🌈📚🗃️ #histsci #queerhistory

What day is it? It's #Darwin's birthday! Happy 217th to our boy Charles.

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it' - Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855 Poor ol' Chas. It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟 Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that a vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy! 🌈📚🗃️ #histsci #queerhistory

I’m delivering the University of York LGBT+ History Month Lecture virtually on the 25th at 1:30 EST/6:30 GMT. It's free and open to the public! Dr. Melissa Oliver-Powell and I will answer all your questions about trans people, past and present. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

So pleased to share our first 2026 speaker! Dr Robin Hayward’s talk will explore the role of identity in communicating science, drawing from personal experiences in the field and from their work to create an LGBTQ+ inclusive toolkit for safe and equitable fieldwork #LGBTQSTEM #LGBTQhistorymonth

My new article, hot off the e-press: This year the cell biology journal Protoplasma celebrates its 100th anniversary! But why did its founders name it "Protoplasma" in 1926, and what does the name say about the history of the idea of the cell? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histsci #philsci

🏳️‍🌈 Gay Life during the Norwich Blitz by Piers Haslam. Join us for our next lunchtime talk marking LGBT+ history month, either in person or online. 📅 Wednesday 11 February 2026 ⏲️ 13:00-14:00 🎫 Free, booking essential norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/events-novem... #norwichintheblitz #lgbthistorymonth

Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!

This February, WATWH is diving into the wild, queer side of nature. Join us for a celebratory, thoughtful, and eye-opening evening of science, history, and queerness in the animal kingdom. rzsnsw.wildapricot.org/event-6560993

Happy LGBT+ History Month from your libraries! You'll find lots of displays across University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives. Here are some highlights from the Haddon Library, the English Faculty Library and the Casimir Lewy Library.

Happy LGBT+ History Month!🌈 To celebrate, we've decked out our staircase with various pride flags and we think it looks wonderful 🤗 Keep your eyes peeled for further updates from us as we celebrate this month!

Still buzzing from the amazing Exploring Queerness in Natural Symposium at @linneansociety yesterday, what a day! So many great talks and chats, and the most warm and joyous atmosphere of any conference I've ever been at...

I had the pleasure of interviewing astrophysicist turned activist @drcarpineti.bsky.social for the latest digital cover of Vada Magazine, to coincide with this year's @lgbthm.bsky.social theme of science and innovation. 🌈 🔭 @prideinstem.bsky.social vadamagazine.com/features/dr-...

We had a wonderful time yesterday at Exploring Queerness in Natural History. We're writing up it up to share in a future blog post, but for now here are some pictures of our fantastic curators @aquadan1.bsky.social and Connor Butler, the lunchtime zine-making, and our afternoon panellists.

In their new book "Sex Isn't Real," Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Read a Q&A about their bold argument on the blog today. buff.ly/hB1k4Cw

Really inspiring to hear @rossbrooks.co.uk speak about what he's learnt writing his new book. You should all preorder it ;)

#LGBTplusHM26 To mark LGBT+ History Month, we bring you this 1976 edition of Gladrag - magazine of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front who fought for inclusivity and representation for Birmingham’s LGBT+ community. Ref: LF 22.85 #LibraryofBham #birminghamlgbt

Right now, there will be schools across the UK preparing to celebrate LGBT+ History Month. In other schools, there will be silence.

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, FIDDLESTICKS (1930)! 🐸🎶 🎬 Meet Flip the Frog in his very first cartoon—created by animator Ub Iwerks, who previously animated STEAMBOAT WILLIE and later formed his own studio. Full short ➡️ archive.org/details/Fidd... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

It's so cool seeing this logo I designed being used everywhere today! Happy LGBT+ History Month everyone! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

New on NOTCHES: Sexuality in Modern German History by Katie Sutton. Sutton examines how sexual 'norms' have shaped key forces in modern German history, including nationhood, citizenship, fascism, and memory culture. 🔗Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4ST #QueerHistory #GermanStudies #Gender #Germany

As it’s LGBTQ+ History Month I thought I’d share some bits from my new book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains (out in mid March) just to give a flavour of what was going on beyond the privet…

*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

Happy abseiling lesbians day to all who celebrate!!!

First set of queer history tours of The British Museum are kicking off this Friday evening! Would be lovely to have you along. I'm keeping in all the messy bits... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-to-s...

Every February we mark LGBT+ History Month, celebrating the rich and complex stories and histories of queer people. Our new reading list brings together books that uncover hidden lives, and place queer people where they have always been: at the heart of social, political, and cultural history.

Just in time for LGBT+ History Month, my new article is available open access. It looks at the 1921 census as a site of lesbian activism, and its importance today - and hopefully even manages a little bit of optimism! #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

Americans! You can now buy my book through Barnes & Noble! Still can’t quite believe this… 😭🫢😵‍💫 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/50-lgbtq-f...

“Brooks radically exposes us to the hidden queerness of Georgian and Victorian science—and shows how nature has always been more sexually diverse than we’ve been told.” This book sounds like a great read! Looking forward to it! 🏳️‍🌈🌍

Apparently it's International Zebra Day: I was looking up Lord Walter Rothschild and his zebra-drawn carriage and discover that he was by no means unique in endeavouring to tame zebras to drive or ride: rarehistoricalphotos.com/riding-zebra...

Snow Moon 2026: When to see February’s full moon #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

omg yessss! I'm so happy this has a date AND a rather fabulous cover 🥳🌈🦋

This looks great and would make a fantastic edition to your bookshelves and reading list for 2026. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Love this cover art too!

I often use @rossbrooks.co.uk articles in my teaching materials and have been waiting for a book for years! Excited to see this happening, congrats!!

Added to my most-anticipated list of books publishing this year! "In this iconoclastic history, Ross Brooks shows how queerness was at the heart of evolutionists’ thinking about the natural world." yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @rossbrooks.co.uk @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

We’ve been lucky to work with many famous scientists across history, and we look after many of their specimens today. Some of the most important are Charles Darwin's, which have been part of new research to understand more about them. Find out what's been revealed 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

‘Bursting with humanity.’ Dan Snow ‘Polyphonic, gossipy, and politically potent’ Oisín McKenna The Log Books is an intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes. Out today in hardback ☎️ linktr.ee/TheLogBooks

📚 Do you lend books out & never get them back? Are friends hoarding your literary stash? 📖 In 1938 John A. Gormley found the ultimate passive-aggressive solution, combining MASSIVE WRITING IN CAPITALS on the cover with a custom-made ink stamp imprinting his ownership across many, many inside pages.

QUEER BRITAIN 2.0 We’re proud to reveal the first themes of our six new rotating displays, exploring different aspects of queer life, history and culture. 🎟 Book now: link.outsavvy.com/9084latb – Images from Queer Britain

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSf_... Thank you @antiquaries.bsky.social QUEERING THE BRITISH HOLIDAY

Happening next week!

Join us online in Feb for @uoyevents.bsky.social's LGBT+ History Month Lecture, this year given by @elierlick.bsky.social. Discover the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who will change everything you've been told about transgender history. Register here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #booksky

Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology @autumnhouse.org #poetry #queerpoetry

Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Our latest exhibition, Love Letters, is now open at The National Archives, revealing 500 years of love. From paupers, monarchs, queer networks & quiet acts of affection found in government records. Very proud to have been lead curator on this one, working with so many wonderful people! 💌

YDTM LIVE TOUR: Tickets now on sale!! Www.YoureDeadToMeLive.com

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is funding the composition of a song about Charity and Sylvia, drawing from their letters. What a delightful story! 🗃️ #lesbianhistory #queerhistory www.wcax.com/2026/01/23/v...

What counted as knowledge in Britain’s age of exploration...and who decided? On Wed 4 Feb, @edwinrose.bsky.social explores how natural knowledge was shaped by travel, collecting, and exchange - and whose voices were left out. 6–8pm · Burlington House Find out more: buff.ly/ypMIRvt