Going Out - As part of lgbt history month, there is a wealth of events around the UK - here is a round up of some you can see from Tuesday 23rd - Sunday 28th February 2010:

see www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk for full details.

Gay Bristol in Space and Time
"Gay Bristol in Space and Time" an illustrated talk, looking at Bristol's gay movement and scene since the 1960s. Speaker is Robert Howes, Research Associate, King's College, London, who has written on LGBT history and literature. This is an opportunity to share memories of the period; bring photographs and artifacts of the period to "show and tell". Hot drinks on arrival. Generously funded by the Rainbow Group, Bristol City Council's LGBT Employees Self-organised Group.
6pm to 8pm, Bristol

BLOGS Big Gay Quiz for LGBT History Month
During LGBT History month, BLOGS invites you to come along and celebrate our past by taking part in the BLOGS Big Gay Quiz.
We'll have general knowledge rounds, and rounds to test you on how much you really know about LGBT History.
It'll be fun, competitive and most importantly, educational!
£ 1 per head entry, with prizes for the winners, the loosers, and those with the best knowledge of LGBT History.
This event is open to the whole LGBT Community of Edinburgh and their friends, so feel free to bring people along!
19.30 - 22.30, Edinburgh

Marlene Dietrich: A Life of Border Crossings
The focus of this lecture is the life of Marlene Dietrich, who was one of the great show business icons of the twentieth century. She is also a gay icon, her performance both on and off stage having resonance with the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people.
There are many things about Marlene that defy categorization and the events in her life frequently disrupt conventional understandings of gender, identity, sexuality and relationships. Marlene crossed many borders: geographical, political, performance genre, representations of gender and sexuality. Morley (1976) described Marlene as 'being from another planet...to see her in performance is to see one of the main technical show business feats of our century and like all great conjuring tricks Dietrich is largely inexplicable'.
What is clear is that today, even in death, Marlene continues to capture our imagination.
12.30pm-1.30pm, Nottingham

Word Out III an LGBT Open Mic Poetry Night
Back by popular demand, Camden LGBT Forum are pleased to host a third open mic evening for all you practising, budding and world-weary poets. The evening will be facilitated by published poet, Liz Willows. So bring along your poetry and be inspired!
7.30-10.00pm, London

Brighton Police Museum LGBT Tour
As part of LGBT History Month, Sussex Police will be offering an LGBT tour of the Police Museum under Brighton Town Hall.
Originally built in 1830, the museum is sited in Brighton's first police station. It offers visitors a chance to explore the original cells where Oscar Wilde, Emmilie Pankhurst and Joe Orton were held and a large collection of police memorabilia including uniforms designed for Brighton Police in the 60's by the openly gay hero, spy and Queens dress maker Hardy Aimes.
It has a grisly past as the only station in the UK where the Chief Constable was murdered in his own office.
To book a place contact nick.antjoule@sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 07799347114.
Information about the museum can be viewed at www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk
5:00pm - 6:00pm, Brighton

Queer Histories Seminar
Dr David Clark and Dr Holly Furneaux discuss their books 'Between Medieval Men' and 'Queer Dickens' as part of the New History Lab's 09/10 seminar series. Seminar organised specifically to commemorate LGBT history month.
Tea and homemade cake are available, and visitors are welcome to join the customary trip to the pub afterwards.
4:30pm - 6pm, Leicester

Intergenerational History Walk and Dinner Party Discussion
This is opportunity for both young people and senior members of the community to come together and walk the path of History of LGBT Soho. It is all followed by a Dinner Party style discussion on changes which took place and how they affect both youth and senior members of the community.
5.00 pm - 8.00 pm, Soho

HIV, Apathy, and Activism Today - Does The Gay Community Still Exist?
Sexual health and HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) in partnership with Camden LGBT Forum invite a panel of speakers to discuss the LGBT communities' response to HIV and AIDS, the campaigns, the treatments, the prevention work, and the support they have offered each other over the decades.
The discussion will reflect this as well as look to the future and consider:
Do young LGBT people today feel that HIV and AIDS are irrelevant to them?
Should young people be encouraged to listen to older generations before them where solidarity and activism walked hand in hand with HIV prevention campaigns?
Did the old HIV prevention campaigns work and would they have any influence today?
We discuss the issues - you join in.
6.00-9.00pm, London

Sexualities and stuff
Sexualities and stuff talks
First talk at 13.00
Meet at the Grand Entrance Meeting Point
13.00 - Oscar Wilde and the scandal of Aesthetic Dressing
Christopher Breward, Head of Research at the V&A
14.00 - Sex and ceramics
Tim Stanley, Senior Curator, Asian Department at the V&A
15.00 - A Queer V&A?
Oliver Winchester, Head of the V&A LGBTQ Network and Assistant Curator of the V&A's forthcoming exhibition 'Postmodernism: Style & Subversion 1970-1990'
16.00 - To be announced
V&A Museum, London

Gay Africa
The Red Room presents GAY AFRICA in partnership with English PEN.

"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."

GAY AFRICA is a powerful response to the human rights and sexuality crisis sweeping the continent. In Uganda they propose to execute gays, in Malawi they imprison gay men who marry, in Nigeria they ban all meeting and support for LGBT people.
How far does the American Christian Right support homophobia in Africa? Is South Africa a shinning example of human rights or special case? Do activists and the media in the West help or hinder African lesbians and gays?
How does what's happening in Africa impact on LGBT people throughout the world?
GAY AFRICA brings together an exciting mix of artists and activists from Africa and the Caribbean. We invite you to come along, be entertained, let your voice be heard and get refreshed.
4pm-8pm, London

Celebrating the work of Alan Turing at Bletchley Park
The day will include a series of talks from Bletchley Park and members of the LGBT community.
Spy workshops
The Enigma Cinema will be showing a documentary on the life of Alan Turing.
Come and see the Rainbow bus and meet groups from the LGBT community.
1030 - 1600, Milton Keynes