For today’s episode we go back to the UK in the 1980’s, where politicians brandished a children’s book as proof that school pupils were being indoctrinated into homosexuality and induced a moral outrage. Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin was a s
We delve into the story of the Cosy Corner, an innocuous gay bar in Weimar era Berlin where a young English writer became captivated by the characters he met and found his first love(s). When Christopher Isherwood first wrote about his experien
This week we look at the story of ephemera collector extraordinaire, Alexander Gumby. Open any history of the Harlem Renaissance and you will find his name, but you have to dig deeper to find out more about Gumby’s Book Studio or the man himsel
The story of the Mulackritze bar, a gay bar in Berlin which survived two world wars before being rescued by the inimitable Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a trans woman and curator who found a safe haven for this piece of queer history in the basement
This is the second episode about Eve’s Tearoom so listen to episode 1 of this series first. Last episode we visited a Greenwich Village tearoom in the mid-1920’s which hung a small sign on its door reading: “men are admitted but not welcome” an
We visit a Greenwich Village tearoom in the mid-1920’s which hung a small sign on its door reading: “men are admitted but not welcome”. This episode, we go back to this unique lesbian space in the summer of 1926 when two women met in the tearoo
We travel back to the The Bahamas in the 20th century where an English butch lesbian carved out a space for herself and her lovers from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. Joe Carstairs was many things in her life: an heiress, a driver, a speedboat racer