Category Archives: Matt Cook

A Queer Sort of History (2)

Posted on February 20, 2021 by wordsandpictures2016

This article was originally published in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the (partial) legalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales. (It would be 1980 before Scotland followed suit and 1981 for Northern Ireland. Bisexuality, transgenderism or lesbianism … Continue reading →

Posted in Alan Bray, Brian Masters, Christine Burns, Derek Jarman, Diana Souhami, Edward Carpenter, Emma Donoghue, Graham Robb, Havelock Ellis, Jan Morris, Jeffrey Weeks, Joan Schenkar, Joe Orton, Julia Grant, Julie Peakman, Kenneth Williams, Lisa Power, Matt Cook, Matt Houlbrook, Nancy Spain, Oscar Wilde, Peter Scott-Presland, Philip Hoare, Quentin Crisp, Rebecca Jennings, Richard Davenport-HInes, Richard Ellmann, Rictor Norton, Rose Collis, Simon Garfield | Tagged , | Leave a comment

A Queer Sort of History

Posted on August 19, 2017 by wordsandpictures2016

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the (partial) legalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales. (It would be 1980 before Scotland followed suit and 1981 for Northern Ireland). Bisexuality, transgenderism or lesbianism have never been illegal in Britain (despite … Continue reading →

Posted in Alan Bray, Brian Masters, Edward Carpenter, Emma Donoghue, Graham Robb, Havelock Ellis, Jan Morris, Jeffrey Weeks, Jill Gardiner, Joan Schenkar, Joe Orton, Julia Grant, Julie Peakman, Kenneth Williams, Matt Cook, Nancy Spain, Oscar Wilde, Philip Hoare, Quentin Crisp, Rebecca Jennings, Richard Ellmann, Rictor Norton, Rose Collis | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments