Who's she when she's at home?
Please join Gay's the Word bookshop and author Matt Cook in celebrating the paperback release of...
Queer Domesticities
Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
Queer Domesticities is about the ways in which queer men have made, experienced and described their homes in London over the past century. It gives a historical perspective on the new interest in the home lives and styles of gay men which has come with gay marriage and adoption and with TV...
Who's she when she's at home?
Please join Gay's the Word bookshop and author Matt Cook in celebrating the paperback release of...
Queer Domesticities
Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London
Queer Domesticities is about the ways in which queer men have made, experienced and described their homes in London over the past century. It gives a historical perspective on the new interest in the home lives and styles of gay men which has come with gay marriage and adoption and with TV and media depictions of gay men with particular domestic flair.
The book rests on oral histories and unpublished diaries of relatively unknown men and on reassessments of famous and infamous figures, including artists Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, architect and romantic socialist C.R.Ashbee, early reformer George Ives, interior designer Oliver Ford, writer and editor J.R.Ackerley, 'stately homo' Quentin Crisp, playwright Joe Orton and film-maker Derek Jarman.
EVENT DETAILS
A free, informal book talk with the historian Matt Cook
No need to book. Please do, however, RSVP here on Facebook to indicate that you are coming.
Free refreshments will be available.
PRAISE
βIn this scholarly but immensely readable book Matt Cook explores the domestic interiors of homosexual men at various times from the end of the 19th century to the onset of AIDS and the acceptance of gay parenting. β¦ Cook has managed to capture the heart of the home of these gay men and brings a new insight into gendered domestic interiors, making a firm contribution to the history of homosexuality.β (Julie Peakman, History Today, Vol. 64 (12), December, 2014)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matt Cook is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Co-director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. He is also author of London and the Culture of Homosexuality (2003) and editor of A Gay History of Britain (2007), Queer 1950s (2012, with Heike Bauer), Queer Cities, Queer Cultures (2014, with Jennifer Evans).