What can the biography of William Mcllroy, a gay humanist from post-war Northern Ireland, tell us about the negotiation of non-conforming identities in the face of inflexible religious conservatism? Charlie Lynch investigates the…
What is gained when 20th century Queer history is brought into the classroom? Claire Holliss discusses her experience of visiting the archive to find sources for her A-Level students.
There is an urgent need for programmes that train people to research Queer History and Black British History. The first masters' programmes in these areas, at Goldsmiths, now face an existential threat due to the College's redundancy…
"I think I was seeking among the tombs of the dead those lost friends; I would not let them go: and with the guiding hand of scholarship and the eye of a historian, against all expectations I found such friendship there in those monuments"…
With this conference, we want to rethink the movements that Stonewall supposedly spawned in Europe. Join us to explore the national, European and transnational factors that gave rise to gay liberation.
What are we memorialising when we commemorate the Stonewall riots? In the first of a series of articles marking Stonewall's 50th anniversary, Christopher Gioia reflects on the development of the Stonewall legend.
Anne Lister's diaries, detailing her love affairs with women, weren't published until 1988, centuries after her death. In the latest post for the new Radical Books series, Laura Gowing examines how 'I Know My Own Heart' transformed the…
