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Queer Beyond London: Places, People, and Community History

Queer Beyond London: Places, People, and Community History

This public event on 14 November 2018 marks the conclusion of Queer Beyond London.

admin November 19, 2018 Uncategorized 1 Comment Read more

In Other Words: The Roles of a Community Bookshop in Plymouth

In Other Words: The Roles of a Community Bookshop in Plymouth

Independent bookshops like In Other Words were often instrumental in supporting LGBT community as well as creating a space for radical politics to thrive and people to connect.

Matt Cook April 11, 2018 Plymouth, Sources No Comments Read more

Hello Caller: Queer lives and the rotary dial telephone

Hello Caller: Queer lives and the rotary dial telephone

The black rotary telephone sits at the heart of my queer memories and opens lines into the queer past.

Matt Cook February 3, 2018 Sources No Comments Read more

Back to Back in the Gay Village

Back to Back in the Gay Village

That we can’t tie a particular case or individual to these particular back to backs shouldn’t lead us to conclude that these houses or the people who lived there stood apart from surrounding queer dynamics.

Matt Cook January 15, 2018 Sources No Comments Read more

Safe Spaces and Claimed Places: An Exploration of LGBT Representation In Sites on a Local Level

Safe Spaces and Claimed Places: An Exploration of LGBT Representation In Sites on a Local Level

How has the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities’ relationship with public and private spaces evolved and developed in Plymouth?

Alan Butler November 27, 2017 Conference, Plymouth No Comments Read more

Generalisations and Assumptions versus the lived experience of LGBT people in medium sized cities

Generalisations and Assumptions versus the lived experience of LGBT people in medium sized cities

The Divercity project undertakes research into the LGBT experiences in small and medium sized cities in Europe.

Simon Harding November 27, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

Queer Opera Fans in Rural Zhejiang: “Sisterhood”, Politics, and Eroticism

Queer Opera Fans in Rural Zhejiang: “Sisterhood”, Politics, and Eroticism

Gay men into this cultural form like to claim that “99 percent of males into yue opera are tongzhi”.

Zhenzhong Mu November 26, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

Beyond Brideshead: The Homoerotics of 1930s Oxford in the Photographs of Cyril Arapoff (1898-1976)

Beyond Brideshead: The Homoerotics of 1930s Oxford in the Photographs of Cyril Arapoff (1898-1976)

Glimpses of the otherwise hidden homoerotic possibilities afforded by the predominantly male university culture of Oxford in the 1930s.

Ross Brooks November 25, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

A “Queer Collection”: The Anglo Colony in Florence in the 1920s and 1930s

A “Queer Collection”: The Anglo Colony in Florence in the 1920s and 1930s

Following World War I queer people fled the metropolis of London for the “provincial” city of Florence in search of a more congenial legal regime and social context.

Rachel Hope Cleves November 22, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

The harmful assumption of homophobia in the provinces

The harmful assumption of homophobia in the provinces

The assumption of homophobia in the provinces is not backed by general facts, but rather by anecdotes that are sometimes 10 or 20 years old.

Peter Edelberg November 21, 2017November 21, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more
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Queer beyond London is an AHRC-funded collaboration between Birkbeck College, University of London and Leeds Beckett University to explore the local LGBTQ histories of Brighton, Leeds, Manchester and Plymouth.

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