Birkbeck Big Ideas – Local Lives in the Queer Metropolis (LGBT History Month event)
Event on 2014-02-21 18:45:00
Location: Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Road, E1 1BU
LGBT History Month Event
Local Lives in the Queer Metropolis
Talk and discussion with Birkbeck Lecturer Dr Matt Cook
There is a well-established story of queer London since the war which takes in a changing bar and club scene, notorious arrests, activism, Pride, and the devastating impact of AIDS. That story is crucial to understanding the queer dimensions of the city, but we when we look beyond the West End, Earls Court or Vauxhall, and at the lives of queer men in other parts of the city we get a more complex, varied and indeed queerer sense of the capital. This talk explores the lives of three such men and shows how taking our cue from the local and the particular enriches our understanding of London's queer pulse.
Dr Matt Cook is Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, and Birkbeck Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. His latest book Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth Century London was published in 2012.
Refreshments will be provided.
If you have any questions contact: tryit[at]bbk.ac.uk
at London Birkbeck University
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