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The LGBTQ+ community: an underappreciated resource in environmental awareness and protection

The LGBTQ+ community: an underappreciated resource in environmental awareness and protection

by Talking Humanities | Feb 26, 2021 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished

Investigating Lesbian responses to the natural world, particularly the ‘back to the land’ movements of the late-20th century, Professor Nancy C Unger, author of Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, considers how LGBTQ+ experiences...
Classified ads to club culture – what archives reveal about queer history

Classified ads to club culture – what archives reveal about queer history

by Talking Humanities | Nov 21, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Languages & Literature, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources

The legal and social pressures exerted on LGBTQ+ people to suppress their desire and loves may have had success in the eyes of their oppressors. But the subcultures it created are rich and varied and recorded in ways that don’t take much to research and share. And an...
Disappearing Berlin: thoughts approaching an anniversary

Disappearing Berlin: thoughts approaching an anniversary

by Talking Humanities | Nov 7, 2019 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Republished

Thirty years after the Cold War barrier was removed, Dr João Florêncio, a lecturer at the University of Exeter, and Ben Miller, a writer and researcher, consider the origins of the ‘legend of Berlin’ and how the newly undivided city provided queer folk...
A secret history – 250 years of queer literature

A secret history – 250 years of queer literature

by Talking Humanities | Jan 9, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Events, Features, From the Archives, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement

 Image: © Mark Mitchell Dr Richard Espley, head of modern collections at Senate House Library, explores highlights from its collection of queer literature and introduces ‘Queer between the Covers’, the University of London’s latest exhibition and events series...

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