How has the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities’ relationship with public and private spaces evolved and developed in Plymouth?
Safe Spaces and Claimed Places: An Exploration of LGBT Representation In Sites on a Local Level
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?
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.
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.
Southampton’s Hidden Past and Present: An Oral History of the Gay Community
Sebastian Buckle’s oral history project, collecting the experiences of 18 gay people living in Southampton, is now held at the Southampton City Archives.
Queering the provincial archive: LGBT+ history in Sheffield
R’s life story offers an almost unique insight into the development of queer networks and then a commercial scene in a northern city.
Join Queer Beyond London in Brighton
Have your say about Brighton’s LGBTQ History with the team from Queer Beyond London.
Help Map LGBTQ Oral History
Help draw attention to LGBTQ oral history resources by mapping their locations on this crowd-sourced map.
Brighton’s Trans Histories
Brighton has long been known as the ‘gay capital’ of England, but the city is also a centre for trans communities and histories. A recent project called Brighton Trans*formed, undertaken by QueenSpark Books, recorded the lives and experiences of Brighton’s transgender community in their own words.
Plymouth’s Lockyer Tavern
From the 1950s to the 1970s the Lockyer Tavern on Lockyer Street in Plymouth was an important social space for gay men, in particular its ‘back bar’. Originally the home of a local surgeon, Sir George McGrath, the building that housed the Lockyer became a hotel in 1862. With expansions in the late nineteenth century and survival through WWII, it was a well-known queer location for much of the second half of the twentieth-century.