Although best known as a 1980s tabloid slur, the term ‘gender bender’ refers to a thriving androgynous youth tribe devoted to alternative music, clothes and nightlife.
Tag: London
A Love Letter to Bolts Nightclub
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.
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.
