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Pride Month - June 2026

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 Pride Month takes place in June every year in the UK with the aim of celebrating and honouring LGBTQ+ communities all around the world. It is about acceptance, equality and raising awareness of issues affecting the community, including health related issues.

 RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources on LGBTQ+ related health topics. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

JOURNALS   

  • International journal of transgender health; World Professional Association for Transgender Health, sponsoring body; (Taylor & Francis) – available Keele e-journal from 2020 onwards, and NHS journal 2020 onwards with 1 year embargo. Some articles are available Open Access.
  • Journal of gay & lesbian mental health; Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists, issuing body; (Taylor & Francis) – available as a Keele e-journal from 2008 onwards. Some articles are available Open Access.
  • Transgender health; (SAGE Publications) – available as a Keele & NHS e-journal 2016 onwards.

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.  

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