Locating Queer History - Matt Cook

Queer urban life has changed dramatically in England over the last seventy years. Shifts in the economy, culture, attitudes, and technology have all played their part in this. London has often been used as the barometer for these shifts, suggesting they were experienced in similar ways across the nation.
In an exploration of the queer contours of Leeds, Manchester, Brighton and Plymouth, this lecture takes issue with this assumption and shows how and why LGBTQ scenes, communities and identities could feel very different from place to place.
This lecture was recorded by Matt Cook on 23rd April 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
Matt is Jonathan Cooper Professor in the History of Sexuality at Oxford University.
He is a cultural historian specialising in British queer history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/l...
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[@ubiktd4064]

They went all Tavistock on us.

[@hellohell1723]

Peculiar feeling, being talked about as a piece of history.

[@rdallas81]

Quee r history tho

[@myparceltape1169]

Slacks on a woman was real fashion in 1948.
Honeymoon gear.

[@myparceltape1169]

Supporters of these clubs were only interested in the ill-health of the other team's supporters.
No wonder it was called Bent Penny afterwards.
Both sides claimed a victory.

[@maxsonthonax1020]

Get out a map. Bingo.

[@Tropper73]

The worst, most futile and irrelevant conference ever held by the College....

[@DisleyDavid]

So why did you watch it? Or perhaps you commented without watching it.

[@collyernicholasjohn]

Let’s celebrate all the trans-people back then.
Oh wait, there weren’t any. Just homosexuals😢.

[@RP-mm9ie]

Fetishism