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Sodom Island and Samuel Jones: Pandaemonium and sodomitical order on Norfolk Island, 1832-1846.

Sodom Island and Samuel Jones: Pandaemonium and sodomitical order on Norfolk Island, 1832-1846.

Discourse of sodomy relates as much to sex between men as it does to a social inversion of authority.

Mark Peart November 20, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

Queerly does it: LGBTQ+ participation, methodology and influence

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?

Jude Woods November 19, 2017 Conference, Leeds No Comments Read more

Daughter of District Six: The Kewpie photographic collection

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.

Jenny Marsden November 18, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

The North South Divide? Examining Queer Intersections between Newcastle upon Tyne and London

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?

Gareth Longstaff November 18, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

International Travel in the 1970s and the making of the ‘gay world’

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.

Craig Griffiths November 14, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

Alan Turing in Context: Sexual Offences in Cheshire in the 1950s

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.

Chris Waters November 12, 2017 Conference, Manchester No Comments Read more

Working with The City: an LGBT+ History Partnership

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.

Cheryl Morgan November 11, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

Bars and Bedrooms: Public and Private Queer Spaces in Postwar Berlin

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.

Andrea Rottman November 10, 2017 Conference Read more

Great Expectations: Migrating to Edinburgh

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.

Alva Traebert November 9, 2017 Conference No Comments Read more

The queer politics and pleasure of Brighton beach

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.

Louise Pawley November 1, 2017 Brighton, Conference No Comments Read more
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