Tag: twentieth century

Glad To Be Gay in Scarborough (1980)

By Bob Cant February 12, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 1 comment

Bob Cant Collaboration between the procedurally correct trade union movement and the playful street theatre of the gay liberation movement was never going to be easy. My own trade union, National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) provides a case study of events typical of trade unions […]

"Call me Kuchu": history, homophobia and the burden of the past

By Onni Gust February 7, 2014 African Sexualities, LGBTQ 5 comments

Sunday 26th January 2014 marked three years since the murder of David Kato.

A Bit of Casual Sex Up North: And What it Could Mean to the History of Sexuality

By Helen Smith February 5, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 9 comments

Helen Smith In 2009 when I made the decision to come back to academia and start a PhD, I had it all planned out how it would go. I was freshly inspired by my umpteenth re-read of the brilliant Queer London and was determined to try and do something similar […]

Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson

By Julia Laite January 21, 2014 Sexual Labour, United Kingdom 7 comments

Julia Laite Ok, so I know that the Sinead/Miley thing is old news, lying (by internet standards) in the distant past of November, 2013. You can feel free to remind yourself of it here. But seeing as one of my major points is about the repetitive nature of debates over […]

Immigration, sexuality and ‘British’ identity: contrasts and continuities

By Simon Jenkins January 16, 2014 United Kingdom 6 comments

Simon Jenkins As Britain approaches the 2015 general election, debates over immigration are taking shape to play a decisive role. The lifting of migration controls on Bulgaria and Romania has been met by anxieties over large numbers of migrants entering Britain’s shores, echoing responses to eastern European migrants a decade […]

Out in the unions

By Bob Cant January 6, 2014 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 0 comments

Bob Cant I was rather scared of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). And when I saw them taking part in a demonstration against Ted Heath’s Industrial Relations Bill early in 1971, I became confused. I had, at that stage, never been to a GLF meeting but I imagined that they […]