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Sexualities and Localities, c.1965 - 2013

性行为和地点，c.1965 - 2013

基本信息

批准号：
AH/M011151/1
负责人：
Matthew Cook
金额：
$ 43.11万
依托单位：
Birkbeck, University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM011151%2F1
关键词：
Sexualities Localities c.1965 2013

项目摘要

This research examines the complex changes in sexual identities and communities in the contrasting cities of Leeds, Plymouth, Brighton and Manchester since c.1965. It explores the difference locality makes to the ways sexuality is understood and experienced, and so develops an account of particular 'queer' social, radical, and commercial networks. The research will look at how continuities and disjunctions in these local lives and networks articulated with, but also functioned at a distance from, broader currents and accounts of gay and lesbian life in Britain. It considers the local impact and relative significance of famous LGBT landmarks such as the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, the inception of the Gay Liberation Front in 1970, the AIDS crisis from 1981, the activism around Clause 28 in 1988, and the successive pieces of equalities legislation culminating in the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act of 2013. At a detailed and local level, we explore the intersection of sexual, religious, ethnic, class and gender identities and identifications. We will investigate how patterns of local socio-economic growth or decline, of gentrification, of dissent and radicalism, and of migration affected people who identified as gay and lesbian and others who did not but whose sexual, social and community networks overlapped or intersected. In this way we will, firstly, fracture (or 'queer') homogenising general accounts, and, secondly, complicate local community research where identity categories are often the starting point.This will be the first sustained, contextualised and comparative historical investigation of the local impact of changing cultural attitudes and official policies concerning sexuality, and the first to look at the particularities of lesbian, gay or other queer lives in cities with different subcultural associations and reputations. The project reveals the factors which have modulated queer lives and cultures of rejection, toleration or acceptance in these places and elsewhere. It will contribute to debates about the intersection of sexual and other categories of identity and identification, and about conceptions of community, belonging and cultural change. Crucially it will also feed a broader appetite for accounts of the lesbian, gay and queer past and interrogate the individual, community and political implications of that appetite. The project will bridge a gap between 'popular' and 'academic' LGBT or queer histories, and draw attention to local and national resources, archives, community projects and on-line resources - including at least six HLF-funded LGBT community history projects. It will also garner new testimonies relating in particular to the local impact of those projects on ideas of identity and community. The research will be undertaken by two leading academics in the field, together with an experienced postdoctoral researcher. The immediate academic outputs will be: 3 journal articles; a co-authored book, 'Queer North, Queer South', by the PI and Co-I providing comparative analysis of the four core themes (see obj.5) in specific relation to the four cities; a companion volume, 'Out of the Archives' - a contextualized selection of extracts from each of the community history projects, co-edited by the PI, Co-I and PDR; an international conference, 'Provincial Queer Lives'; and papers and panels given by all three researchers at 2 international and 3 UK conferences. Impact activities will include a community archive workshop and witness seminar in each of the case study cities, a comparative History and Archive day, and a History and Policy forum with representatives from community groups, the HLF and linked professionals. A series of special blog dispatches, the project web and Facebook presence, and a Twitter feed will foster further engagement in the research.

这项研究考察了自1965年以来，利兹、普利茅斯、布莱顿和曼彻斯特等城市性别身份和社区的复杂变化。它探讨了地域对性的理解和体验方式的差异，从而发展了一种特殊的“酷儿”社会、激进和商业网络的描述。这项研究将着眼于这些地方生活和网络中的连续性和间断是如何与英国同性恋生活的更广泛的潮流和叙述联系在一起的，但也与之保持距离。它考虑了著名的LGBT标志性事件对当地的影响和相对意义，如1967年的《性犯罪法》、1970年同性恋解放阵线的成立、1981年的艾滋病危机、1988年围绕第28条的行动主义，以及2013年《婚姻（同性伴侣）法》中一系列平等立法的高潮。在详细和地方层面，我们探索性，宗教，种族，阶级和性别认同和认同的交集。我们将调查当地社会经济增长或衰退、中产阶级化、异议和激进主义以及移民的模式如何影响那些被认定为同性恋的人，以及那些没有被认定为同性恋但其性、社会和社区网络重叠或交叉的人。通过这种方式，我们将首先打破（或“酷儿”）同质化的一般描述，其次，使本地社区研究复杂化，而身份类别通常是起点。这将是第一个持续的、背景化的、比较的历史调查，研究关于性的文化态度和官方政策的变化对当地的影响，也是第一个关注不同亚文化协会和声誉的城市中女同性恋、男同性恋或其他酷儿生活的特殊性。该项目揭示了在这些地方和其他地方调节酷儿生活和拒绝、容忍或接受文化的因素。它将有助于辩论关于性和其他类别的身份和认同的交集，以及关于社区、归属感和文化变革的概念。至关重要的是，它还将满足人们对女同性恋、男同性恋和酷儿过去的叙述的更广泛的兴趣，并质疑这种兴趣的个人、社区和政治含义。该项目将弥合“流行”和“学术”LGBT或酷儿历史之间的差距，并吸引人们关注地方和国家资源、档案、社区项目和在线资源——包括至少六个hlf资助的LGBT社区历史项目。它还将收集新的证据，特别是关于这些项目对身份和社区观念的当地影响。该研究将由该领域的两位顶尖学者和一位经验丰富的博士后研究员共同承担。直接学术产出：3篇期刊论文；由PI和Co-I合著的《酷儿北方，酷儿南方》一书对四个核心主题进行了比较分析（见反对意见）。5)与四个城市的具体关系；一个配套的卷，“档案之外”-从每个社区历史项目中摘录的上下文选择，由PI， Co-I和PDR共同编辑；一个国际会议，“省同性恋生活”；以及三位研究人员在两次国际会议和三次英国会议上发表的论文和小组讨论。影响活动将包括在每个案例研究城市举办的社区档案研讨会和见证者研讨会、比较历史与档案日以及由社区团体、高级别论坛和相关专业人士代表参加的历史与政策论坛。一系列的博客特稿，项目网站和Facebook的存在，以及Twitter feed将进一步促进研究的参与。