Each year in February we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month.
Oban Pride have a range of activities planned for LGBTQ+ History Month, you will find all the information about our LGBTQ+ History Month events and activities on this page.
We have once again teamed up with different organisations throughout Oban to be able to put on this range of events.
A big thanks to Oban Phoenix Cinema, Argyll Wellbeing Hub, Oban FM & Oban Youth Café for all their support with our work especially during LGBTQ+ History Month.
OBAN PRIDE ON THE WAVES
Join Crystal & Jay every Tuesday from 8pm on Oban FM for Oban Pride on the Waves.
Tune in for a fantastic range of Music and Chat.
During LGBTQ+ History month each week we will be talking about a key year in LGBTQ+ History and talking about an LGBTQ+ Artist.
Every Tuesday
Oban FM
From 8pm
EXPLORE LGBTQ+
Thursday 3rd & Thursday 17th February
Over 18's
7pm at Argyll Wellbeing Hub
Thursday 17th February
Under 18's
4:30pm - 6pm at Argyll Wellbeing Hub
Saturday 26th February
Under 18's
2pm - 4pm at Oban Youth Café
Join some of the Oban Pride Committee as we explore LGBTQ+ History, The History of Pride. LGBTQ+ Flags and much more.
There will be a chance to read about some key moments in LGBTQ+ History, learn about some key Figures in LGBTQ+ History, look at the meaning of the Acronym, look at the meaning of the flags and time to just have a chat and a cuppa.
We will be looking at different parts of LGBTQ+ History, discussing it and creating some artwork to display at Oban Pride 2022.
MAISIE
4th - 6th February
This is a preview screening! Maisie is officially released in April 2022.
Rating: 15
'Old Age can be a Drag.' After 50 years in the business, Mr. David Raven still performs as 'Maisie Trollette', Britain's Oldest Drag Artiste. But as his 85th birthday approaches, we see the challenges this brings, and when he meets fellow Drag Queen, Darcelle XV from America, Guinness World Record Holder at 87, professional rivalries flare between our feisty Pantomime Dame and the regal Pageant Queen.
For screening times and to book tickets visit Oban Phoenix Cinema
WHO'S GONNA LOVE ME NOW?
At 21, Saar was expelled from his religious kibbutz and fled to the UK. There he created a new family with the London Gay Men's Chorus and now, after 19 years, Saar reaches out to his old family in the hope of a reconciliation.
For screening times and to book tickets visit Oban Phoenix Cinema
11th-13th February
Rated: 15
REBEL DYKES
18th-20th February
Rated: 18
REBEL DYKES is a full-length documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.
With an afternoon workshop on Oral History with the Producer of the film, Siobhan Fahey.
For screening times and to book tickets visit Oban Phoenix Cinema
LOLA AND THE SEA
25th-27th February
Rated: 15
Lola, 18 years old, bleach blonde hair, lives in a foster home with Samir, her only friend. Impulsive and lonely, she is trying to get her diploma as a veterinary assistant. When her mother passes away, her father Phillip makes sure that Lola will miss the ceremony. Two years before that, Philip was throwing her out of the family home: at the time, Lola was still Lionel - Philippe is determined to fulfill Catherine's last wish: to be dispersed to the North Sea, in the dunes of her childhood home. Lola on the other hand is furious against her father, but she will not leave her mother alone in this last journey. So they take off together, both unwilling to share a car but determined to take Catherine home.
For screening times and to book tickets visit Oban Phoenix Cinema