2025 annual LGBTQ lecture

Name: 2025 annual LGBTQ lecture
Start: 2025-03-03T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-03T18:30:00+00:00
Location: University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics & Archaeology

Schedule

Mon Mar 03 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics & Archaeology | Edinburgh, SC

We are pleased to host a lecture by Professor Matthew Cook (Oxford University) for our annual LGBTQ lecture.
About this Event

Portable closets: Secrets and lives in queer Britain since gay liberation

The double life and the closet tend to be associated with a time before the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967 and the Gay Liberation Front call to ‘come out’ in the early 1970s. Though the social and cultural terrain in Britain has certainly shifted, this lecture shows how and why various kinds of secret have continued to matter to many gay men and have helped to make their lives liveable. Based partly on research and interviews for the AHRC-funded ‘Queer Beyond London’ project, it looks at how people’s backgrounds, families, and the places they live have made a portable closet a necessary, comforting and even enjoyable place to retreat to in the years since gay liberation.