This paper will explore the role of gay tourism in the 1970s, focusing on the “discovery” of destinations such as the Philippines, facilitated by an era of cheaper air travel.
International Travel in the 1970s and the making of the ‘gay world’
Alan Turing in Context: Sexual Offences in Cheshire in the 1950s
The local and the ordinary will be reconstructed in order to challenge the ways in which Turing’s exceptionalism has been used in the telling of a particular kind of story about judicial savagery in the 1950s.
Working with The City: an LGBT+ History Partnership
Bristol Ourstories has found that confidentiality is always as issue in local history, as is representation of trans people, bisexuals and the BME community.
Bars and Bedrooms: Public and Private Queer Spaces in Postwar Berlin
Working from the personal papers of two queer women, Rottman sketches two different efforts to make a queer home, paying particular attention to the intersections of gender and class inscribed in their archival materials.
Great Expectations: Migrating to Edinburgh
Scotland was first in the UK to repeal Section 28 (Section 2A), and many migrants who have made it their home have taken a very active part in shaping political and social change.
The queer politics and pleasure of Brighton beach
What do Brighton’s Section 28 demonstrations reveal about the relationship between politics and pleasure when it comes to queer resistance.
QUEER LIVES PAST AND PRESENT: INTERROGATING THE LEGAL
Queer Lives Past and Present brings together scholars working on diverse aspects of the LGBT and queer past to discuss how the legal affected, and continues to affect, everyday queer lives.
Queer Circulations: Gay, Trans and Black Truck Drivers Tell Stories of Independence and of State Surveillance
How do queer and trans truckers use the independence and motion the job provides to escape some of the social constraints placed on them by an often hostile world?
Rainbow Pilgrims: The Rites and Passages of LGBTQI Migrants in Britain
Rainbow Pilgrims is a landmark project that discovers the hidden history of LGBTQI migrants in the UK past and present.
“The Prairies–Coming Out Strong”: Western Canadian Queer Communities, 1969-1985
Prairie activists and actors were interested in creating spaces for socializing, politicizing and organizing other queer people, both in the cities and the small towns/rural areas.