CRUISING COMMUNITY: Derek Jarman and Hampstead Heath

Dr Richard Maguire teaches English and Gender Studies at Arcadia University’s London Centre and American Fiction, and fin de siècle literature at King’s College. He received his Ph.D from King’s College London with his thesis ‘The Last of the Queer Romantics: Mourning and Melancholia in Gay Men’s Autobiography.’

Keith Jarrett is an award-winning performance poet from London. His third book of poetry Selah, came out this year and he recently contributed a monologue to the Queers series on BBC4, a response to the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain. He is a regular performer at Polari.

Len Lukowski is a writer and performer living in South London. He’s had work published in LossLit, Chroma, Aesthetica, The Ofi Press andDrowned in Sound. He likes to make a racket in queer punk bands.

Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures (CRUSEV) explores LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) social and sexual cultures of the 1970s, and their significance for LGBTQ people across Europe now and in the future. CRUSEV reconstructs aspects of LGBTQ cultures and interactions from the 1970s, the decade before HIV/AIDS, to consider what this knowledge can contribute to queer politics and identity in Europe’s present and future.
The three-year research project is financed by the European funding agency HERA, under HERA’s ‘Uses of the Past’ theme.
https://www.crusev.ed.ac.uk