During February each year, organisations across the UK unite to showcase the LGBTQ+ community's rich history while advocating for increased inclusivity.
This month, we're creating a space for new generations to share underrepresented LGBTQ+ stories from across the built environment; focusing on the theme of activism and social change.
Established in 2004 by the co-chairs of Schools OUT, LGBT+ History Month is an annual celebration aimed at promoting equality and diversity for the betterment of society.
RIBA Toolkits
Explore our latest toolkits with activities and resources to help support LGBTQ+ colleagues in the workplace.
Microaggressions Toolkit
Looking for resources to help with LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace? This toolkit provides resources to help practices address and understand microaggressions in the workplace.
Explore the RIBA Microaggressions Toolkit.
Inclusive Events Toolkit
Planning a networking session or lecture as part of LGBT+ History Month? Check out our Inclusive Events Toolkit for resources and guidance on creating welcoming events for all.
Explore the RIBA Inclusive Events Toolkit.
Surrealism Toolkit
This workshop toolkit has been designed to help expand your understanding of Surrealism’s influence on architecture as a means of promoting creativity and diverse ways of seeing the built environment.
Explore the Surrealism workshop toolkit.
RIBA Books LGBTQ+ reading list
Our RIBA Books team have a selection of both available and upcoming titles on the theme of LGBTQ+ history:
Inclusion Emergency: Diversity in Architecture
This book encourages understanding and reflection by capturing insight from leading voices in the profession. It addresses critical questions, providing steps towards meaningful change.
With historic, contemporary and speculative examples from around the world, Queer Spaces recognises LGBTQIA+ life past and present as strong, vibrant, vigorous, and worthy of its own place in history. Looking forward, it suggests visions of what form these spaces may take in the future to continue uplifting queer lives.
Queer London: A Guide to the City's LGBTQ+ Past and Present
Celebrating the diversity and innovation of queer individuals in London, both historically and today, Queer London features a range of bars, clubs, shops, Pride events, charities, community organisations, saunas and sex shops that cater to the LGBTQ community.
Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ
The first-ever illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols, and graphic art representing more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and activism - from the evolution of Gilbert Baker's rainbow flag to the NYC Pride typeface launched in 2017 and beyond.
Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s
Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure - a queer infrastructure - connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city.
Other resources
RIBA Collections LGBTQ+ resource guide
OUT of Space online exhibition
Find out more about our equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) work, including LGBTQ+ blogs and workplace resources.
