The Queerstory Files

Lgbt (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) history for everyone. No academic gobbledigook. No deep analysis. Just queer facts. There's still a lot of bigotry around but there's also lots to celebrate.

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Showing posts with label Black History Month UK. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Black History Month UK. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Poet-Trio

Today is the UK’s National Poetry Day. To celebrate I’m going to look at a trio of black lgbt poets. One of the most famous black poet...

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

The Seven Deadly Gay Sins : Going Blue with Lust

If there’s one sin which people admit to enjoying more than any other then surely it must be sex! But for sex to be included on a list o...

Friday, 2 October 2015

Heritage Spotlight : Scraps of History

Have you ever kept a scrapbook? I have. I’ve still got over a dozen of them I put together when I was a teenager. I’ll be showing you tw...

Monday, 27 October 2014

Ruby and Tiny

Back in July I wrote about lgbt drummers and briefly mentioned the jazz drummer Ruby Lucas. It seems appropriate to write more about her ...

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Renaissance Women

Following on from my article last Sunday on lgbt Renaissance composers here’s a look at a more recent group of lgbt Renaissance musicians...

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Tony Scupham-Bilton: Nottingham, United Kingdom; I was born during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1960 and was brought up in a village in north Nottinghamshire. I attended the sort of school which practiced “history for girls, geography for boys”, but developed a love of history none-the-less.

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