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Our mission is to share knowledge; to support existing LGBTQ+ History Month projects; and to encourage new LGBTQ+ History Months around the world.
Statement Feb 25, 2025
February 25, 2025
Statement on the Trump Administration’s Censorship of Matters Related to the LGBTQ+ Community
The International Committee on LGBTQ+ History Months (ICoHM), founded in November 2021, believes that every person has a human right to unrestricted access to a history that is whole and complete. We also believe that every person has a human right to see themselves reflected in the records and relics of the human family.
We reject, therefore, all attempts by all governments to limit, restrict, erase, and censor facts and information about the LGBTQ+ community. Specifically at this moment, we condemn the new federal administration in the United States for targeted erasure of LGBTQ+ history generally and transgender history specifically by means of Executive Orders 14151, 14168, 14187, 14201, and other actions. We further condemn the federal administration and the unelected in that administration for removing access to federal websites with information related to HIV education, gender, and LGBTQ+ history.
The eradication of books, knowledge, records, and groups never ends well, and the Trump administration’s actions embolden others around the world. We ask the federal administration in the United States to stop its search-and-destroy mission meant to annihilate the advances and gains of LGBTQ+ human rights, LGBTQ+ persons, and LGBTQ+ history over the past several decades.
We, the undersigned, call on the world’s governments to do what they can to challenge the invisibilizing of any citizen and to support access to all histories, including LGBTQ+ history.
Canada: Meryem Benslimane, Dr. Alessio Ponzio
Estonia: Keio Soomelt
Finland: Kaura Raudaskoski
France: Dr. John Samuel
Hungary: Viktória Sulyok, L. Balázs Szabó, Péter Hanzli
Israel: Dotan Brom
Italy: Dr. Chiara Beccalossi, Oscar-Silvi Bertolissi
Netherlands: Dewi Vrenegoor New Zealand: Clare O’Leary
N. Ireland: Mary Ellen Campbell, Joe Walsh
Romania: Andre Radulescu
Spain: Dr. Moisés Fernández Cano, Dr. Esteban López Medina, Mónica Morado Vázquez, Dra. Daniela Ferrández, Dr. Javier Fernández Galeano
Sweden: Sarah Guarino Werner, Bill Schiller
UK: Professor Emeritus Sue Sanders, Lynne Nicholls
USA: Rodney Wilson
Wales: Dr. Norena Shopland
The mission of the International Committee on LGBTQ+ History Months is to share knowledge; to support existing LGBTQ+ History Month projects; and to encourage new LGBTQ+ History Months around the world
about us
The idea for an International Committee on LGBTQ+ History Months evolved in early November 2021 out of conversations between the team preparing to launch the first-ever LGBT+ History Month Italia and the founder of LGBTQ+ History Month USA.
During November and December 2021, representatives of sixteen locations with established or future LGBT+ History Months were recruited to join the committee: ASEAN SOGIE Caucus (ASC), Australia, Berlin, Canada, Cuba, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, N. Ireland, Norway, Scotland, UK, Wales, and USA.
The committee’s inaugural meeting was held via Zoom on January 14, 2022.
The committee meets quarterly – in January, April, July, and October. Meeting chairship passes through the history month locations by order of inaugural event. All representatives who joined prior to the inaugural meeting are co-founders of the committee. Representatives joining after the inaugural meeting are members.
This International Committee on LGBTQ+ History Months includes academics, teachers, professors, writers, historians, and community activists who believe that history matters, that access to one’s history is a human right, and that LGBT history education is good for all students.
As of January 2025, the International Committee consists of thirty-seven (37) representatives (see Members list) from twenty-five (25) locations around the world
Official Purpose Statement
The mission of the International Committee on LGBTQ+ History Months is to share knowledge; to support existing LGBTQ+ History Month projects; and to encourage new LGBTQ+ History Months around the world.