Jun 29, 2026
Broadsides blog series celebrating Pride Month
As we wrap up Pride Month 2026, please take a moment to check out our series highlighting queer and trans histories. Our 2026 series includes the following contributions:

Roberta Cowell: Britain’s reluctant “trans” pioneer By Rebecca Jane Morgan

How Queer Became Posh: Class and Representations of Non-Normative Sexuality and Gender By Laura Schwartz

“Hello, Gay Switchboard?”: Tracing queer life through telephonic helplines in the 1970s and 1980s
By Katherine Wallace

All About Travel: Gay Tourism and Activism in the 1970s
By Gil Engelstein

Just Another Cold War “Gay Spy” Scandal?
By Kristina Kelehan

The British Colonial Connection to the Contemporary Attack on Transgender Rights in India
By Arnav Bhattacharya
You can also revisit our 2025 series!
Queer and Trans Histories in an Urgent Present
By Jarett Henderson
Urnings, in Ireland and Illinois
By Tom Hulme
Pride and Its Paradoxes: Settler Queer History and Indigenous Calls for Truth-Telling
By Jacobin Bosman
Princess Seraphina: Queer Visibility at the Old Bailey
By Scott Terlouw
Hyacinth at the End of the World: Queering William Burges, Eschatology, and Cardiff Castle
By Katrina-Eve Nasidlowski Manica
“Not totally gay, I suppose”: Bisexuality and Multiple-Gender-Attraction in the Archives
By Martha Robinson Rhodes
“A Special Law Just for Us”: Negotiating Gender Recognition in Postwar Britain
By Adrian Kane-Galbraith
Banning Books is Stupid, So Keep Writing
By Averill Earls
