Locating Queer Histories

The theme of this book is that locality matters. Queer lives and queerscapes are illuminated across a multiplicity of places, spaces and times: from polities to gardens, synagogues, photography collections, racial interminglings, English beaches and Florence estates. Queerness is not so much about being as becoming, celebrating difference and belonging in all its varieties. * Jeffrey Weeks, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London South Bank University, UK, Author of Between Worlds: A Queer Boy from the Valleys. * Locating Queer Histories provides an exquisitely rich, wide-ranging sampler of queer experiences. Methodologically and geographically varied, this work delivers on the promise of queer urban, regional, and provincial histories to engage us in revisiting familiar places from new perspectives, communities long omitted from history. Locating Queer Histories is a welcome challenge to the field and a promise of more to come. * Valerie J. Korinek, A.S. Morton Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan, Canada * This is another superlative offering from the 'Queer Beyond London' team of Bengry, Cook and Oram. The scholars they have assembled treat the reader to a rich diversity of topics about the fascinating heterogeneity of queer Britain. This is a collection to be savoured. * Brian Lewis, Professor of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. *