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SUMMARY:Does the pink pound have a history? - Justin Bengry
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CONTACT:Dr Samuel McDermott
DESCRIPTION:In this talk based on a decade of research\, Dr Justin Bengry 
 uncovers more than a century of evidence showing the relationships between
  businesses and LGBTQ people\, and not always in ways we expect. Whether s
 eeking to sell books to those with ‘Bulgarian Tendencies’ in the 1910s
  to publishing queer personal ads and decrying ‘Evil Men’ in the 1950s
 \, we see that long before Pride Parades and glossy gay and lesbian lifest
 yle magazines\, commerce and homosexuality were already well acquainted. 
 \n\nJustin Bengry is a queer historian\, public speaker and writer based i
 n London and holds appointments at the University of Oxford\, King's Colle
 ge London and the University of Exeter. He was Director of the University 
 of London's Centre for Queer History at Goldsmiths where he also founded a
 nd led the world’s only MA in Queer History from 2017 to 2024. He has wr
 itten extensively on the history of the pink pound\, the ‘gay pardon’\
 , and LGBTQ+ press\, and is co-editor of two books: Locating Queer Histori
 es: Places and Traces across the UK with Matt Cook and Alison Oram and A Q
 ueer Scrapbook\; Britain and Ireland since 1945 with Matt Cook\, Rebecca J
 ennings and E-J Scott. 
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre A\, Student Services Centre
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