LGBT History Project NE Public Day

Our Public Day on Saturday 10th February is full of exciting talks. This will be held at The Live Theatre, Broad Chare, Newcastle, 10:15am - 5:00pm. Lunch will be provided. Performance by LGBT Community Choir Northern Proud Voices. There is a full list below of our amazing talks on the day:

• Jennifer Ingleheart: “A Shropshire Lad in Ancient Rome: A. E. Housman on Roman Homosexuality”
  
• Clifford Williams: “Turnabout: The Policing of Gay/Bisexual Men in England and Wales 1950-2010”
• Karen Pollock: “From Bad, to Mad, to Dangerous to Know, a History of the Medicalisation of LGBTQ+ Identities”
• Julie Scanlon and Louise Evan-Wong: “North East Lesbians and the Women’s Liberation Movement”
  
• Costanza Torrebruno: “Medicalising the Divine: The Misrepresentation of Transness by the Ancient Greeks”
  
• Morgan Rhys Powell: “Queering Anti-Fascism”
• Khakan Qureshi: “Opposites attract: An LGBTI+ Muslim perspective”
• Chris Mowat: “Queering Hippolytus: Asexuality and Ancient Greece”
• Scott Halliday: “LGBT Family Law & Human Rights – Development, Division or Disarray?”
• Jonathan Croall: “The Secret Life of John Gielgud”
• David Barry: “Swimming Against the Tide: The Experiences of a Local LGB Group:Durham Che 1975-80”
• Ophelia Balls: “The Balls are in the Back”
• Charlotte Thompson: “Transgender: the Erased and Hidden History of LGBT”
• Omar Abdelrazik and Alex Wainwright: “Perceived Debauchery: The Ongoing Persecution of Gay Men in Egypt”
• Zine Workshop, run by Drew Dalton and Kali Scott.
• Oral History Workshop, run by Felix Helianthus and Emily Jeffers
• Polari Workshop, run by Graham Cox