Five stories in now, getting my eyes opened with gay youth gangs in Germany, Nottingham activists, and what may be the first recorded trans woman in English historical record, none of which I knew about before AH was crafted around them.
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Pride and Points of Divergence
- Thread starter Charles EP M.
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- Coventry
I learned what the polite phrase of LGBT people in the 40s was doing research for mime
Recognition's utopia is an indictment, that we were this close to it actually happening, an entire other world was failed. The Observer journalist being trans is a savage touch
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- He/Him
I will say, if you can try and give “Robin Hood Rides Again – A Rebel Scene” a read, it details Ray’s actual attempts at electoral politics and is also a good snap shot of the state of Nottingham Politics in the Mid 60s.
But yeah, the queer history of Nottingham is underutilised and under discussed I find.
I will let everyone else know that I will get around to reading there’s in time, I’ve resisted reading the copy @Lilitou because I wanted to read the finished piece.