Velvet-Club Connecting Lesbians & Bi-women around the World
LGBTQ History Club is a regular monthly meeting to explore and share lesbian, gay, trans, bi and queer histories. All welcome. Contact LMA to join the club's list and receive programme details. Find out more about LGBTQ History at LMA at www.facebook.com/lgbthistory On the 1 October Dr Helen Smith will look at the life of queer working class men living in two towns in the north of England in the mid twentieth century. Helen has created the first detailed academic study of non-metropolitan men who desired other men in England during the period 1895-1957. Th...e study places issues of class, masculinity and regionality alongside sexuality and seeks to understand how men experienced their emotional and sexual relationships with each other. There is evidence that fluid notions of sexuality were rooted in deeply embedded notions of class and region. Patterns of change around work, sex, friendship and sociability are explored through a wide variety of sources such as legal records, newspapers, letters, social surveys and oral histories to achieve this. This helps us understand how traditions of tolerance and ambivalence were formed and why they eventually came to an end. About the speaker: Helen Smith is a social and cultural historian and her research concerns northern, working-class men, sexuality, class and masculinity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Following the completion of her PhD, she worked as a Cultural Engagement Research Assistant on a project that resulted in the original theatre piece Sweet Comradeship based around Edward Carpenter's Commonwealth Cafe. Her research formed the basis of the piece created by Dead Earnest Theatre Company.
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