Punching Above its Weight - Nottingham in the Context of Britain's Queer History
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Speaker: David Edgley (Nottinghamshire’s Rainbow Heritage)
Chair: Dr Hongwei Bao (Associate Professor in Media Studies)
Time: 11am-1pm, Tuesday 18 February 2025
Place: Trent Building B46, University Park Campus
Accessibility information: The venue is wheelchair friendly. https://www.accessable.co.uk/university-of-nottingham/access-guides/b46
This public lecture, delivered by guest speaker David Edgley from Nottinghamshire’s Rainbow Heritage, will offer a brief survey of the UK’s queer history, heritage and activism, with a focus on those relevant to Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. It will start with the 1885 Labouchere amendment and include the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, banning of The Well of Loneliness, the 1948 Kinsey report, the arrest of Alan Turing, the outing of April Ashley and the 1967 Sexual Offences Act and its deficiencies leading up to Section 28. It will then move on to the positive legislation from 2000 onwards. This workshop type of public lecture may include interactive ‘thought exercises’ about what constitutes homophobia, biphobia and transphobia and how to deal with them.
Speaker’s Bio:
David Edgley was born in 1945. He did a postgraduate course at the University of Nottingham in 1966. He was involved with gay rights group CHE between 1971 and 1982. He helped start Notts LGBT+ Network (formerly Switchboard) in 1975 and acted as treasurer and fundraiser for that group for 35 years. He launched Nottinghamshire's Rainbow Heritage LGBT+ history project in 2008 and provided LGBT+ awareness training for over 100 organisations/groups. David produced newsletters for several organisations: Chimaera (1972-82) for CHE; I'm Free for Outhouse/Switchboard (2003-5); QB for GAI project/Switchboard (1998-2003) and for Switchboard/Network (2005-2024); Notts Rainbow Review for Nottinghamshire's Rainbow Heritage (2024 onward).
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