Events for LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2025
Corpus Christi College 4th Pride Event
Sunday 1 June, 5:30pm
McCrum Lecture Theatre (behind The Eagle pub)
Four speakers discussing their work in the LGBTQ+ field:
1. Ferdinando Cocco, PhD Candidate, Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge – The Kiss of Queerness: AIDS and the Disney Renaissance
2. Ry Montgomery, PhD candidate, Department of French, University of Cambridge – Filming the fightback: liberation and resistance in the cinema of Lionel Soukaz
3. Dr Orsolya Katalin Petőcz – Post-doctoral Research Associate Robinson College, affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge – The Age of the Queer Witness: Holocaust Testimonies Across Borders
4. Bingchang Sun, PhD candidate, Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge – Masculinity, (Homo)sexuality and Contemporary China
Tickets: <https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/corpus/corpus-pride-event-2025/e-lklyjm>.
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Plant Sale Fundraiser in support of The Kite Trust, a charity that supports LGBTQ+ young people in Cambridgeshire and across the UK.
Thursday 12 June, 12-2pm
Alison Richard Building - Atrium
If you have any plants to donate for this event, these will be most welcome, please let us know in advance what you are planning to bring along.
Can’t make it in person? You can still support the cause by donating via our JustGiving page:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/polis-charity-plant-sale
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Cambridge Pride
Saturday 14th June
Jesus Green
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LGBTQ+ Parenthood: Celebrating diverse families and building supportive communities
Monday 16 June, 1-2pm
Little Hall theatre, Sidgwick Ave, CB3 9DA
Join the LGBTQ+ Network for a panel session with:
- Bethan Carr, Senior Associate at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP, a leading UK surrogacy and fertility law specialist.
- Susie Bower-Brown, a Lecturer in Social Psychology at University College London focussed on LGBTQ+ identities and diverse family forms.
- Alexandra Woolgar, parent of two kids, age 2 and 8. Professor in the Department of Psychology and Deputy Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
- Sue Fletcher-Watson, a pansexual mother of two teenagers, married to a cis man. Last year she was a gestational surrogate for two dads. Dean of Equity Inclusion and Community in the College of Medicine and Vet Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and a Professor of Developmental Psychology.
- Brent Stewart, currently in the process of adopting two young children with his husband. Software Engineer Manager in the DevOps function within University Information Services
Questions for panel can be submitted at: https://forms.office.com/e/qR4d4VT0Dk
Tickets available: https://buytickets.at/edi/1710384
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PRIDE Panel Discussion: Challenges, Champions & Change!
Wednesday 18 June 2025, 12:00 – 13:00
JCBC Lecture Theatre
Join us for an engaging conversation with our panel as they share their stories and insights on:
- Navigating career choices
- Building strong networks
- The power of mentorship
- Fostering inclusivity
- Maintaining the work/life balance
This event is open to all University staff and students – PLEASE SIGN UP HERE TO ATTEND!
After the discussion, stick around for refreshments and a chance to network with the panel and fellow attendees.
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Rock Up and Chill
Wednesday 25 June, 6-9pm
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Unwind at the end of the day and explore the Museum in an atmospheric evening setting.
Drop in and discover the colourful beauty of rocks and meteorites under the microscope. Use these as inspiration to contribute to a new collaborative artwork for the Museum that celebrates Pride, working with environmental artist Kaitlin Ferguson.
Join a mini-tour celebrating the Museum's queer history, do some sketching, explore our handling collection of real fossils, or if this all sounds too busy - just soak up the atmosphere.
This event is FREE, but a ticket is needed. Tickets will be available from Thursday 5th June.
There is no paid bar at this event, but you'll receive a free drink (wine, beer or soft) on arrival.
Rock Up and Chill Tickets, Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
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Pride In Nature Tours at the Museum of Zoology: ‘Animals don’t do sexual identity; they just do sex.’
From same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins to the scientists working in the field of zoology. How do the labels and categories we give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world? Our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world.
Tour Dates:
June 7th at 10.30am
June 14th at 10.30am
June 22nd at 1pm
June 29th at 1pm
Tours last approx. 35 to 45 minutes.
Click here to book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtq-bridging-binaries-guided-tour-tickets-788971574217
Any queries, please contact Lucy Williamson (she/her) lw639@cam.ac.uk
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Pride in London march
Saturday 5 July
The LGBTQ+ Network has a limited number of places available for staff and students at the University of Cambridge (including the Colleges and affiliated institutions) and staff at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. In order to allocate places as fairly as possible, they are running a random draw.
If you would like to march in the parade as part of the Cambridge University group, please complete this form by Friday 30 May to be included in the draw:
https://forms.office.com/e/YquLKjAHZ3
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Past Events
Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History, Q&A with author Simon Goldhill
Monday 3rd February 14:00-15:00
Online and in-person at The Triangle, Room S1-G1G2G3, Cambridge University Press and Assessment
Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – including personal diaries and letters – the author reveals a network within which queer Fellows of Cambridge University explored bold new forms of camaraderie and relationship. During difficult decades when homosexuality was unlawful, gay academics – who included celebrated literary and scientific figures like E. M. Forster, M. R. James, Rupert Brooke and Alan Turing – lived, loved, and grew old together, bringing new generations into their midst. Their remarkable stories add up not just to an alternative history of male homosexuality in Britain, but to an alternative history of Cambridge itself.
To register: cecilia.marshall@cambridge.org
Queer Postdocs in Action
Thursday 6th February, 17:00-18:00
Postdoc Academy Mill Lane
Queer Postdocs in Action is a set of interactive talks organised collaboratively by LGBTQ+@Cam (aka Q+) and the Postdoc Academy, exploring what it means to be a queer postdoc at Cambridge and if queerness shapes or does not shape our research. These sessions will provide a dialogue with postdocs from various fields to look at the similarities and differences in their experiences and will help build a community of queer researchers at Cambridge. To register for the panel discussion, the first event in the series.
To register: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/opda/event/5619598
Cambridge University LGBTQ+ Network drinks
Thursday 6th February, 18:00-21:00
The Anchor pub on Silver Street
Opportunity to get together with members of the LGBTQ+ Network and attendees at the Queer Postdocs in Action event to make connections and celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month.
Bowie Love, a lecture with Prof. Alex Sharpe
Thursday 13th February, 18:00-19:30
Trinity Hall Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ
This lecture will consider the idea of love as agape, a Greco-Christian term capturing the idea of a love for humanity. It will be argued that it is this love, which privileges otherness over self, love over law, that cascades through David Bowie’s work. In thinking through Bowie love, the lecture will draw on philosophers, Max Scheler and Alain Badiou, as well as fierce opponent of agape, Friedrich Nietzsche. The lecture will explore three love lessons apparent in Bowie’s work: love as letting go; love as humility; and love as posthuman. However, it will begin by explaining how Bowie subverted social norms which parade as necessity, and therefore, how Bowie love is inextricably tied up with freedom, yours and mine.
To register: Select tickets – Cambridge University LGBTQ+ network LGBTQ+ History Month talk - Prof. Alex Sharpe: 'Bowie Love'
In defence of what’s there: scavenging as queer and feminist methodology, a talk with Dr Sophie-Marie Niang
Monday 24 February 2025 12:30-13:30
S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP, and online via Zoom
This talk will reflect on the concept of scavenging as a methodology of refusal. Anchored in black studies, black feminist thought, queer studies and indigenous studies, scavenging seeks to centre care and repair in our intellectual inquiries. How does taking methodologies and its implications seriously change the way we conduct research? What possibilities does scavenging offer for feminist and anti-racist scholarship? And what are some of the hurdles of trying to implement such a methodological approach?