Here is a video (thanks, Rob!) of a section of my lecture “From Edward II to Sir Ian McKellen” on gay history at the UK’s National Portrait Gallery, filmed at BGSQD on November 21, 2014. Question: can we call Shakespeare ‘gay’?Read More
Here is an interesting article about gay history in Tangier. Oscar Wilde Tours would love to organize a tour to southern Spain and Morocco in 2017. Southern Spain has a fascinatingly complex history, including a lot of gay history. Rome’s gayest emperor, Hadrian (whose male lover Antinous appears in museums in New York, London, Paris, Rome,...Read More
Just spotted this review of a fascinating new book about Walt Whitman and gay sociability in late 19th century New York. This is very timely for us, because Oscar Wilde Tours is planning a gay history tour of New York, to start hopefully in the spring. New York is of course one of the richest...Read More
More gay history notes for gay travelers. I don’t think that most Americans associate Paris with gay history, but it is one of the richest cities for gay history, as it is for all other kinds of history. In fact, Paris is the only city that offers a whole series of gay history tours: Paris...Read More
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