Discourse of sodomy relates as much to sex between men as it does to a social inversion of authority.
Sodom Island and Samuel Jones: Pandaemonium and sodomitical order on Norfolk Island, 1832-1846.
Queerly does it: LGBTQ+ participation, methodology and influence
Can a community based curatorial project influence a museum’s collection and programme, what methods are effective and what is the impact on participants?
Daughter of District Six: The Kewpie photographic collection
The Kewpie collection comprises 600 photographs depicting the lives of self-described ‘moffies’ in Cape Town’s District Six between 1950 and the 1970s and provides a record of a community that was scattered following the demolition of District Six.
The North South Divide? Examining Queer Intersections between Newcastle upon Tyne and London
How have physical and mediated movements of LGBTQ subjects between London and the North-East has evolved since the 1980s?
International Travel in the 1970s and the making of the ‘gay world’
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.
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.