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April 18, 2021 at 11:48 am
What are the challenges of telling LGBTQ stories? We assembled an expert panel to find out…
The panel
Matt Cook is professor of modern history at Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include Queer Domesticities: Homo- sexuality and Home Life in 20th- Century London (Palgrave, 2014)
Channing Gerard Joseph teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, and is writing a book on the leader of the world’s first queer resistance organisation
Jen Manion is associate professor of history at Amherst College, Massachusetts, and author of Female Husbands: A Trans History (Cambridge, 2020)
Angela Steidele is a German freelance writer who has published several books on LGBTQ people, including Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister (Serpent’s Tail, 2018)
Recommended by Jen Manion
These two books are among my favourites – I teach them all the time and they’re also really accessible. One is
Transgender History by Susan Stryker (Seal Press, 2017), which is an introductory overview of the transgender rights movement in contemporary US society.
The other is probably lesser known, but it’s called
Queer Injustice (Beacon Press, 2011) and it was co-authored by historians, lawyers and activists. It’s a beautiful synthesis of queer history and experience in the US in relation to the criminal justice system. And part of what it does is capture a more diverse group of our communities’ experiences. But it also reminds [us] that, up until very recently, being queer was criminalised: people were incarcerated for their love, and that it’s actually just a very new phenomenon that homosexuality does not subject one to criminalisation, even in modern times.
HUB: Bolton Museum BOLTON Central Library and Museum is helping promote LGBTQ History Month as it hosts events for the OUTing the Past Festival tomorrow. The events form part of the International Festivals of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans History celebrations which holds worldwide events to mark the community’s past and looks forward to a brighter future. The festival features speakers from all over the world showcasing the depth and breadth of the LGBTQ community, shining a light on LGBTQ history and raising the awareness of the past attitudes and behaviours related to sexuality and gender. Their aim is to challenge ignorance in society to LGBTQ culture and encourage the mainstream acceptance and teaching of its history in schools and colleges.