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Posting a little late, but Happy ##InternationalPronounsDay. Some words from our Committee Member Binni:
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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!
October 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Wishing everyone a slightly early Happy #ComingOutDay! 🏳️‍🌈 (11/10/25) 📕📙💛📗📘💜
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🏳️‍🌈 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
October 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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
September 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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
September 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
📣 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 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚
July 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Thank you Liverpool- it’s been a blast!
#CilipNWPride
#LGBTQ
#Library
June 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Organisations need to be seen as organic, with constantly growing collections and interpretations”
@jskstarr.bsky.social
#CILIPNWPride
#LGBTQ+
June 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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
June 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Absolute joy:
Photos from the collection at #Liverpool #Museum including the first trans flag flown from Liverpool Townhall 🏳️‍⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#CilipNWPride
#LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈
June 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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
June 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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
June 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Please enjoy our ‘tortoise’ 🐢icebreaker art 😂
#CilipNWPride
June 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
And we’re off…
looking forward to an excellent collaboration day between @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social at #CilipNWPride
June 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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
June 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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...
September 9, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Hello world! This is the Digital Champion team from the CILIP LGBTQ+Network signing on!
September 2, 2024 at 3:59 PM