We join with partners Queer NI – Sexuality Before Liberation to find out what’s behind their exciting new publication The Athens of the North, part of our Tails of the City pamphlet series for Belfast 2024.
A guide to queer Belfast from the thirties, an elaborate spoof – or something in-between?
The year is 1937. A Royal Ulster Constabulary officer stumbles upon an unusual booklet: a guide to “criminal deviancy” in Belfast. Inspired by a euphemistic guide to public lavatories that circulated in London, this booklet provides a route-map to queer liaisons in Belfast.
Join Queen’s University Belfast historians Tom Hulme and Maurice Casey as they explore the real queer history and unveil the fascinating true story behind this pamphlet.
Admission includes a copy of The Athens of the North, which will also be on sale from Paperxclips and our website.
Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation at Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University is generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the grant AH/V008404/1.
For more on the project, click HERE
Duration: 60 mins
Age Recommendation: 18+
The Tails of the City series is a Belfast 2024 commission by Outburst Arts, for the Are You on the Bus? project in partnership with Kabosh and Paperxclips
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