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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.

Craig Griffiths October 27, 2017November 2, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

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?

Anne Balay October 24, 2017November 2, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

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.

Shaan Knan October 16, 2017November 2, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

“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.

Valerie Korinek October 13, 2017November 2, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

Out in Oxford: An LGBTQ+ Trail of the University of Oxford’s Collections

The Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, created the University’s first cross-collections trail, Out in Oxford: An LGBTQ+ Trail of the University of Oxford’s Collections.

Beth Asbury October 3, 2017August 27, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

Queer Republic of Cork: The development of Cork’s LGBT Community and of the Cork LGBT Archive

Many of the ‘firsts’ in Irish LGBT activism happened in Cork.

Orla Egan September 28, 2017August 27, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

‘A thousand acres of red fertile earth’: The rural and the urban in 1970s visions of lesbian nation

Concepts of the rural shaped the imagined and actual formation of women’s lands in particular ways in the 1970s and early 1980s

Rebecca Jennings September 22, 2017August 27, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

Parson’s Pleasure, 1845-1992: Homosociality, Oxford, Oral History

Oxford’s male-only swimming hole enshrined a tradition of homosocial nude bathing and sunbathing that would continue until the place’s unceremonious demolition in 1992.

George Townsend September 16, 2017November 2, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

Main Street USA: Incorporating Queer Experiences into Local History Venues

An intriguing number of interpretive efforts are now taking place in local history museums and smaller, locally significant historic sites

Susan Ferentinos August 29, 2017August 27, 2025 Conference No Comments Read more

London: a central place in the creation and consolidation of LGBT+ Jewish identity

London was proving to be THE gay Jewish city in the UK with a growing infrastructure to support a growing community.

Searle Kochberg August 26, 2017August 27, 2025 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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