Queer Women and Where to Find Them: An Intersectional History of Lesbian Space in London from the 1970s-1990s

我的研究将以空间作为分析和历史的视角，阐明从20世纪70年代到90年代伦敦广泛的商业、公共、私人和家庭女同性恋空间。我将探讨这些空间如何影响女同性恋身份和社区的形成，展示身份、社区和空间如何在地方和全球层面上相互作用。我将考虑女同性恋妇女和社区如何对空间本身的形成产生影响；展示了女同性恋是如何占据空间的，女同性恋空间是由什么组成的，这些空间在伦敦的女同性恋社区中是如何变化的，以及这对伦敦酷儿地区的影响。利用各种各样的原始材料，我的项目将突出比历史学家以前认识到的更大的女同性恋空间阵列，并与比以前调查过的更广泛的女同性恋和酷儿女性进行互动。最终，我的博士研究将呈现伦敦女同性恋空间的交叉历史，将性别，阶级，年龄和种族考虑在内，从而产生一段代表伦敦女同性恋人口和社区在20世纪70年代至90年代占据其空间的多样性，跨国性质的历史。

Using space as an analytical and historical lens, my research will illuminate a wide range of commercial, public, private and domestic lesbian spaces in London from the 1970s to the 1990s. I will explore how these spaces impacted the formation of lesbian identities and communities, demonstrating how identity, community and space interacted with one another, both at a local and global level. I will consider how lesbian women and communities had an impact upon the formation of space itself; showing how lesbians took up space, what lesbian spaces consisted of, how these spaces varied across the lesbian communities of London and the impact this had on the queer geographies of London. Utilising a diverse range of primary materials, my project will highlight a larger array of lesbian spaces than have formerly been recognised by historians, and interact with a wider demographic of lesbians and queer women than have previously been surveyed. Ultimately, my doctoral research will present an intersectional history of lesbian space in London, that takes gender, class, age and race into consideration, resulting in a history that is representative of the diverse, transnational nature of London's lesbian population and communities who occupied its spaces in the 1970s-1990s.