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LGBTQ+ Equality at UCL History of Art

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+ students and staff are an important part of both the Department and UCL. We aim to create a welcoming and inclusive environment听throughout the department with a strong emphasis on reflecting the distinctive needs and priorities of different communities.

Support and Resources at UCL

  • UCL has an active LGBTQ+ Equalities Action Group (LEAG) and an LGBTQ+ staff social network (Out@UCL) which meets at least twice a term. Staff at 宅男视频 can become a听Friend of Out@UCL, and UCL provides training for staff to become LGBTQ+ allies. More information on UCL supporting trans and non-binary staff in the work place can be found听here.
  • There is also an active research network called听, a university-wide initiative that brings together UCL staff and students with research and teaching interests in LGBTQ studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory and related fields.听At History of Art we are especially well-placed to support LGBTQ+ students 鈥� our current Head of Department,听Professor Bob Mills, is the听inaugural Director of听qUCL, and he is involved at听Out@UCL听and a member of听LEAG.听Read more about Bob鈥檚 interests in LGBTQ+ equalities at听We Are Out@UCL.
  • The support and wellbeing service offers support to LGBT+ students. On their听website听you can find information on transitioning gender, the听UCL Policy and Guidance for Students transitioning Gender听and details of听external support for the transgender community, especially in London.
  • There is a UCL Trans Network for staff and students听at UCL who identify听as trans (including non-binary, genderqueer & all other identities not identical with the gender assigned at birth). You can join the network here.听
  • 罢丑别听听is here to support you in your study and work, to provide you with social activities, as well as to campaign on your behalf and raise awareness of your听issues.听
  • Find the听听here and听听丑别谤别.
  • LGBTQ+ Equality Implementation Group (LEIG) -听The LGBTQ+ Equality Implementation Group (LEIG) has been created to further enable UCL to understand and support the concerns and priorities of our members of the LGBTQ+ community. The LEIG operates as a task and finish group, projected to conclude by the end of May 2023. Full details can be found here.听

External Support and Resources

LGBTQ+ in Art Resources

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Detail from miniature by Herman, Paul and Jean de Limbourg in the Belles Heures of Jean de Berry, c.1405鈥�1408/9. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1954, fol. 184v.听

鈥淭his painting, which appears in a magnificent book of hours made for an aristocrat in late medieval France, shows Saint Jerome (c.340鈥�420) being tricked into wearing a woman鈥檚 dress when attending a service in the monastery where he was living. Jerome was one of the early 鈥楥hurch fathers鈥� who established the doctrinal foundations of Christianity. He is particularly known for his efforts to translate the Bible into Latin as well as his advocacy of chastity. There鈥檚 an episode in Jerome鈥檚 biography describing how some of his fellow monks planted a dress in his room while he was asleep to make people think that he had a woman staying with him at night. As such, the trick constitutes an attempt to impugn his reputation as a chaste holy man. It was very unusual to depict men dressed in feminine attire in medieval art and this particular image is unprecedented. It potentially serves to demonstrate both differences and similarities in the ways in which gender and sexuality are understood today compared to the distant past.鈥�
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- Prof. Bob Mills

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