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  • A Lavender Attic

    A Lavender Attic

    ‘LGBT+ archives,’ says Gerard Koskovich of the GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco, ‘are your queer grandma’s attic’. They are the place where younger generations will find our legacy.

  • At the World’s End

    Meggie’s Journeys by Margaret D’AmbrosioPolygon, 1987 A few days ago, #ReclaimTheseStreetsPorty, one of the groups formed after the abduction and presumed murder of Sarah Everard in London, attached a series […]

  • Mortimer’s Deep – A Medieval Story

    Mortimer’s Deep by Simon TaylorBalnain Books, 1992 Translated into German by Rainer Schmidt. Published as Der Mönch by four German publishers including Weltbild (Augsburg, 2004). Mortimer’s Deep – It’s Origins […]

  • Unsung: the queer books that tell our story – the video

    As part of this year’s LGBT History Month, Bob and Sigrid took part in a live webinar conversation on 24 February with Chris Creegan about how queer books tell our […]

  • Du Maurier’s Rebecca and Queer Culture

    Why has Rebecca always had a reputation as a queer novel? Generations of gay men have declaimed the first line, spoken by Joan Fontaine in the 1940 film: ‘Last night […]

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