February is LGBT+ History Month and there are loads of events going on around Cambridge. The University’s LGBT+ History Month Lecture, will be given by Sir Richard Heaton KBC. Now Warden of Robinson, Richard spent his career at the heart of government and will be reflecting on queer liberation and the politics of the 1990s and today. If you are interested in politics (both then and now) then I think you’d really enjoy coming to hear him. There will also be a Q&A section after his talk, so you might actually find out what it’s like to be the Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office. It is totally free, hosted at St Catz, and followed by drinks and nibbles. But please remember to register.
Towards equality: LGBT liberation and UK politics in the 1990s and now
Sir Richard Heaton KBC
Richard Heaton is Warden of Robinson College. Before coming to Cambridge in 2021, Richard was Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 2012 to 2015, and at the Ministry of Justice from 2015 to 2020. As a Home Office official earlier in his career, Richard advised Ministers on the reform of sexual offences law, including the contested issue of age of consent and the abolition of the offence of gross indecency.
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