LGBT+ History Month: research and resources

Read interviews with contributors to the State of Play anthology. In the interviews, the poets expand on their thoughts about poetry and queerness and also share their favourite books.

Watch this conversation with activist and writer Sarah Schulman and the TORCH Queer Intersections Network on her new book 'Let the Record Show' which challenges familiar narratives about AIDS activism. 

Explore this resource on the poet Jackie Kay from Writers Make Worlds. This page examines how Kay's poetry engages with issues of racial and sexual identity, secrecy and love.

In this blog post, Postdoctoral researcher Jack Parlett introduces his project about the literary history of Fire Island. Located around sixty miles from Manhattan, Fire Island has been a destination for queer artists & writers since the 1930s.

Watch Tim Allsop (Project Lead, TORCH’s Queer Rural Connections) in conversation with Piers Torday, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, as they discuss children's writing and queer experiences 

Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. 

Listen to this conversation with Magdalen College alum and novelist Alan Hollinghurst on the parallel liberation of biography and gay writing.

To mark LGBTQ+ History Month, DPhil candidate Victoria C. Roskams has written an article on her research into the appeal music holds for many queer writers as a faithful or compelling expression of their identity