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CILIP LGBTQ+ Network
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Posting a little late, but Happy ##InternationalPronounsDay. Some words from our Committee Member Binni:
black text on a cream background with watercolour flowers in the bottom as decoration. The text reads "Using the right pronouns helps us all feel respected and included. To introduce ourselves with our pronouns and put them in email signatures and social media bios is a small but impactful act that signals inclusion and understanding, making it easier for trans+ and non-binary people to feel safe and welcome (Binni, they/them/theirs)."
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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It's Spooktober🦇🎃 If you're a member of our network & the owner/servant of a suitably spooky companion, feel free to post a pic below. We'd love to feature some pets in our next newsletter
#PetsOfBluesky
📸my friends cat in something orange. That's spooky enough,right? anyone tried dressing up a cat!
photo of a tabby cat sitting on a table. The cat is wearing a padded collar/ruff in orange.
October 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Wishing everyone a slightly early Happy #ComingOutDay! 🏳️‍🌈 (11/10/25) 📕📙💛📗📘💜
photo of a 3 book shelves full of books. The books are all different heights and are ordered in colour order. The colour order is representative of the pride flag.
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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🏳️‍🌈 Happy #InternationalLesbianDay to all the lesbians in #Library Land out there! 👭🪓❤️🧡🤍💗💜
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Image 1: From the #archive at @lselibrary.bsky.social
Image 2: Article from a newspaper reporting on 2023 census data.
#LGBTQ
#LGBT
#Lesbian
#WLW
photo of a pink badge with the text 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle' A snip from a newspaper article with the headline: "Revealed the professions with the most LGB employees. The text underneath the headline reads: Census data shows librarians, café workers and flight crew have the highest proportion of homosexual workers-with roofers bringing up the rear. The two pictures below the head Aside view of a librarian handing some books from shelves to somebody else and a picture of a lollipop crossing sig
October 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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I have a sweet spot for online #archives, this digitised collection of 226 #LGBT badges is worth a little look if you've 5 mins to spare. From the archive at @lselibrary.bsky.social

digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

#Library
#LGBTQ
#Lesbian
#Gay
#Bisexual
#Trans
#Queer
#GLAM
photo showing a yellowed aged pin badge with the words 'avenge oscar wilde' in purple retro font on it. photo a white pin badge with the symbol of a butterfly and fist on it. The words above the logo say 'Come Out' The logo and font are in purple photo a black pin badge with a pink triangle. The text on the badge reads 'we are everywhere' photo of a pink badge with the text 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle'
September 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Interesting piece on #gay #librarians stateside & the collections at the University of Illinois #Library

'Out of the Closet & Onto the Shelves: Librarians and the Oldest Gay Professional Organization in the U.S.'⬇️

www.library.illinois.edu/ala/2018/06/...

🏳️‍🌈📚
#ALA
#Employment
#Archives
#LGBTQ
A black and white photo showing three people. A man is seen to the left of the shot and centre, two women are kissing. They are Barbara Gittings and author Isabel Miller. The photo is from 1971 and the clothing styles and fashion mirror this.
September 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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📣 We're looking for a new chair for the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network.

To apply, please send a short CV and cover letter to Beth Montague-Hellen at chair.lgbtq@cilip.org.uk

#LISjobs #libraries #Library #volunteers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚
LGBTQ+ Chair Role Description Purpose of role: To act as one of the leading officers for the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network. Inform the decisions made to raise awareness and advise Library, Knowledge, and Information workers in the UK on LGBTQ+ subjects. This role is open to people who identify as LGBTQ+ or Queer. Responsibilities: Coordinate the activities of the LGBTQ+ Network and ensure it meets its core offer and annual priorities as set out in the business plan. Act as lead spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ Network and where appropriate, represent the LGBTQ+ Network at CILIP meetings and external events and where necessary, organise alternative representatives. To work with other officers and committee members to prepare the business plan and annual report. To liaise with the other co-chair & secretary regarding communication with committee members. To work with the chair and treasurer to maintain an effective overview of the financial position of the LGBTQ+ Network. To be the key link with CILIP to ensure professional issues relating to Network members, and collaborate with the other committee members on initiatives and responses to policy developments. To promote the membership and benefits of the LGBTQ+ Network and CILIP as a wider organisation within the library and information profession. CILIP is committed to championing diversity, inclusion and representation. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQ+ candidates, who have historically been under-represented on our committees.
July 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Thank you Liverpool- it’s been a blast!
#CilipNWPride
#LGBTQ
#Library
Photo of a painted pedestrian crossing depicting the colourful Progress Pride Flag.
June 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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“Organisations need to be seen as organic, with constantly growing collections and interpretations”
@jskstarr.bsky.social
#CILIPNWPride
#LGBTQ+
Photo of the Lesbian and Gays support the miners banner Photo of @jskstarr from the People’s History Museum standing behind a laptop and desk delivering a talk. JSK is wearing a colourful shirt and dark trousers. Photo of a whiteboard slide showing a photo of a white tshirt from the anti section 28 march with the words ‘Never going underground’ on it.
June 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Next up at our @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social joint event is @jskstarr.bsky.social from @phm.org.uk outlining the impact of #Section28 on #museums, catalogues and collections.

“We are still playing catch up” and they’re are knowledge gaps.
#LGBTQ
#CilipNWPride
Photo of a whiteboard display with the words “we have always been here” with 3 photos One is of a pride march, one is of a banner with the words “act up Manchester” and one is of an exhibition.
June 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Absolute joy:
Photos from the collection at #Liverpool #Museum including the first trans flag flown from Liverpool Townhall 🏳️‍⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#CilipNWPride
#LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈
Photo of people at pride in colourful clothing with the pride and trans flag draped on shoulders. Placards read “send nudes” “bieautiful” “labels are for objects” “trans power” Photo of people holding the first trans flag flown from Liverpool Townhall in 2013. The flag now is part of Liverpool Museums collection.
June 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Fantastic talk from Matt Exley from National Museums Liverpool for the @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social joint event at @liverpooluni.bsky.social
#CilipNWPride
Whiteboard screen showing national museum Liverpool logo and the text “from there to here: Transforming LGBTQ+ Inclusive practice” Screen showing photos and names of the 7 museums of National Museum Liverpool: Museum of Liverpool World museum Walker art gallery Merseyside maritime museum International slavery museum Lady lever art gallery Sudley house Photo of Matt Exley presenting his talk with a screen in the background showing black and white photos from the exhibition ‘Hello Sailor’ at Merseyside maritime museum, the first exhibition in Liverpool explicitly dealing with LGBTQ identities in a post section 28 world. Photo of a whiteboard screen displaying a photographic portrait of April Ashley, a pioneering trans woman, model and activist born in 1935. This is from the first museum display about the life of a trans person.
June 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Excellent discussion about allyship:
Thoughts around it being an active not passive approach, it being an all year round thing with policies in place to protect staff, as well as ‘own voice’ narratives being allowed to prevail with ally’s sharing the work load.
#CilipNWPride
Photo of a whiteboard with the question “what does good allyship look like?”
June 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Please enjoy our ‘tortoise’ 🐢icebreaker art 😂
#CilipNWPride
Photo of three post it notes with colourful felt tip squiggles on them.
June 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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And we’re off…
looking forward to an excellent collaboration day between @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social at #CilipNWPride
Photo of flask of hot water and wooden box of tea bags Photo of a white board with the text “knowledge cafe- cilip north west pride”
June 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Stained glass window from the Pride #Library at the University of Western Ontario.
The window celebrates and commemorates 135 influential #LGBTQ authors.

#AmReading
#PrideMonth
#Pride
#Library
#Librarian
#LGBT
#lgbtqia
Stained glass window from the Pride Library at the University of Western Ontario. The window shows a shelf of multicoloured books, the Pride Library logo amid a list of some of history's most influential queer authors.
June 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The CILIP LGBTQ+ Network has arrived on Bluesky! If you'd like to keep up with our events and connect with us, you can find us here on Bluesky, our new LinkedIn page www.linkedin.com/company/cili... and our Facebook page www.facebook.com/ciliplgbtqne...
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September 9, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Hello world! This is the Digital Champion team from the CILIP LGBTQ+Network signing on!
A rainbow logo with the words CILIP LGBTQ+ Network.
September 2, 2024 at 3:59 PM