Bolts was one of the most vibrant LGBTQ nightclubs in 1980s London, renowned for its Hi-NRG music and its weekly shows that were at the vanguard of gay culture.
Tag: London
The Massage Establishments Scandal: Coding and De-coding Sex Work at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The late-Victorian massage parlour and its promotions became a site of moralistic concern, but could its ambiguous intentions be de-coded?
Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media
Leigh Bowery’s nightclub Taboo is mythologised as London’s most decadent nightclub of the 1980s.
Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present
How do we ‘do’ queer history and how might it be constituted in multi- and interdisciplinary terms?
Curating LGBTQ Histories: Queer Season at Sutton House
Just a decade ago, the idea of an exhibition addressing LGBT themes in a National Trust house would likely have been dismissed.
Lines of Dissent at London Metropolitan Archives: Finding and Creating LGBTQ Histories
The 12th LGBTQ History and Archives Conference at LMA chose queer inheritance as its theme.
Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
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