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.