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.
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.
How have physical and mediated movements of LGBTQ subjects between London and the North-East has evolved since the 1980s?
London was proving to be THE gay Jewish city in the UK with a growing infrastructure to support a growing community.