Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7

By Hugh Sheehan LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7 looks back at one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice in recent British LGBTQ+ history

Drag: A British History

By Jacob Bloomfield NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A fresh history of British drag performance in all its ubiquity, glamour, fun, and tawdriness.

Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media

By Stephen Brogan LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Leigh Bowery’s nightclub Taboo is mythologised as London’s most decadent nightclub of the 1980s.

Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963

By Gemma Romain LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity, United Kingdom

Patrick Nelson: queer black Jamaican man, queer black migrant in interwar London, WWII serviceman, POW and witness to Jamaican histories of colonialism and decolonization.

Filth, Flamboyance and Fun in Gay Slang Polari

By Lee Campbell Queer Philologies

Polari is the language of survival—a play on words, a political act.

Lovers in Leicester: A Twentieth-Century Gay Couple

By Jo Somerset LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Jo Somerset reads between the lines to decipher a gay couple’s secret life in Leicester during the twentieth century.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A Queer Case

By Gareth Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

The Chatterley trial hinged on the disavowing or defending of ‘deviant’ sexual acts within the novel, making it a distinctly queer case.