Mark Small and Jack Shoulder
Each year OutStories Bristol in collaboration with the University of Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT) present a lecture celebrating the life of John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), Bristol-based writer, art historian and pioneer of homosexual rights.
The 2023 lecture was given by Jack Shoulder and Mark Small, the duo behind the eponymous viral Twitter (‘X’) account @museumbums. Your can read a transcription of the lecture here.
OutStories Bristol in collaboration with the University of Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT) present the 11th John Addington Symonds Annual Lecture.
Saturday 5th October 2024, 2pm to 4pm
The Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ
First floor of Wills Building – go up main stairs and turn right
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Symonds in 1880s
Photo: Eveleen Myers
Sedgwick in 2007 Photo: David Shankbone
In his talk, Dr Sam Rutherford will compare the life and work of the English classicist and historian John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) with that of the pioneering American queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009), to interrogate the history of Western gay male culture and the creation of gay male communities.
Dr Rutherford will discuss how Western gay male cultural heritage of the 19th and 20th centuries, drawing on Greek antiquity, became bound up in racism and transmisogyny, but could also become a site of transmasculine possibility. Through a trans reading of Sedgwick’s lifelong desire for belonging in gay male community, Dr Rutherford proposes a different understanding of gay cultural heritage which moves beyond narrow conceptions of individual, ‘born this way’ gay (or trans) subjectivity.
Sam Rutherford is Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History / History of Sexuality at the University of Glasgow. His first book, Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2025.
The event is free and open to everyone. Tea and coffee will be provided after the talk – and cake to celebrate Symonds’ 184th birthday! He was born 5th October 1840.
This is also an opportunity to chat with members of OutStories Bristol about our activities.
Please register to attend on Eventbrite – not essential but helps us anticipate numbers for catering.
You do not need to print your ticket or show on entry.
The talk is an annual celebration of the life of John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), Bristol-based writer, art historian and pioneer of homosexual rights.
This event is held by OutStories Bristol in collaboration with the University of Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT). Our thanks to the IGRCT for hosting this event.
Find out more about the IGRCT on their website; you can also find them on Facebook and X (Twitter).
Bristol Pride Day is back! Not only is Bristol Pride one of the largest UK Pride events, it’s one of Bristol’s largest festivals.
OutStories will be there with a stall in the Community Area. Come and say hello!
Saturday 13th July 2024, 12pm onwards
The Downs, Westbury Park, Bristol
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Buy your Pride Day Supporter Wristband now! Bristol Pride is a not for profit charity and every penny from supporter wristbands helps to make Pride happen.
See you there!
Frontispiece by George Cruikshank for an 1831 edition
Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) is regarded as one of the earliest, if not the first, English novel to depict openly homosexual characters. Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish doctor, naval surgeon and novelist who regularly spent winters in Bath from the 1740s-60s.
Partly set in Bath and drawing on people he met there, Roderick Random was Smollett’s first novel and includes several gay characters. Earl Strutwell, “notorious for a passion for his own sex”, takes advantage of the naive young Roderick in order to kiss and fondle him. Roderick writes: the Earl “pressed me to his breast with surprising emotion”.
At first Roderick does not understand Strutwell’s advances but later “his hugs, embraces, squeezes and eager looks were no longer a mystery” and Roderick realises he has been introduced to Strutwell, for his seduction, by Lord Straddle “a poor contemptible wretch who lived by borrowing and pimping to his fellow peers”. Roderick sees that Strutwell’s manservant is jealous of Roderick because previously this “valet de chamber …. had been the favourite pathic of his lord”, meaning a catamite, a youth who plays a submissive role in anal intercourse.
Although Roderick rejects Earl Strutwell’s advances, Smollett lets the Earl have a lengthy and eloquent defence of homosexual love, citing precedents of same-sex relationships in Ancient Greece and Rome. Strutwell was based on a real man. In his essay Offences Against One’s Self: Paederasty (circa 1785) philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) wrote:
“Much about the time when this novel was published a Scotch Earl was detected in the consummation of an amour after the manner of Tiberius* with two of his servants at the same time. The affair getting around, he found himself under the obligation of going off to the Continent where at the close of a long life he died not many years since.”
(* Tiberius: a reputedly “sexually perverse” Roman emperor).
This was John Tilney (or Tylney), 2nd Earl of Castlemaine (1712-1784) who in order to escape scandal lived in Italy for many years where he died the year before Bentham wrote Paederasty. Although not published until 1978, the essay is the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England, making Bentham an early advocate of the decriminalisation of homosexual acts.
While working as a naval surgeon’s mate on board ship Roderick meets Captain Whiffle, a wildly flamboyant gay man dressed as an effete dandy of the period in pink and gold. Tall, thin, with “meagre legs”, Whiffle fits the popular stereotype of the day of homosexual men. The surgeon, Simper, has the bedroom attached to Whiffle’s own and it is made clear no one should walk in on them unexpectedly. Simper is described as “a young man, gayly dressed, of a very delicate complexion, with a kind of languid smile on his face, which seemed to have been rendered habitual by a long course of affection”.
It could be argued therefore that Whiffle and Simper are the first gay couple in English literature. Roderick informs the reader:
“These singular regulations did not prepossess the ship’s company in his [Whiffle’s] favour but on the contrary gave scandal an opportunity to be very busy with his character, and accuse him of maintaining a correspondence with his surgeon not fit to be named”.
“Correspondence” in this context means a sexual relationship. “A crime not fit to be named” was a common euphemism for male same-sex intercourse used in the 18th and 19th centuries. Captain Whiffle is said to have been inspired by Admiral Lord Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton (1720-1794).
Smollett was obviously aware of gay men and, although he uses them for comic effect, he expected his readers to be aware as well. By reading Roderick Random gay men would have seen they were not alone and that homosexuality was widespread, even to the point that it featured in popular novels.
Smollett lived in Gay Street, Bath, from 1765-66 and also visited the then fashionable Hotwells Spa in Bristol. He travelled to Italy for his health in 1768 where he died in Monte Nero, near Livorno, Tuscany, in 1771 aged 50.
Jonathan Rowe 2024
Rictor Norton (Ed.), “Lord Strutwell, 1748”, Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook, 22 February 2003
http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/strutwel.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Smollett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Roderick_Random
Would you like to contribute to a gender exhibition in Bristol next year?
Bristol Museums in partnership with National Museums Liverpool and Brighton & Hove Museums are working on an exhibition about gender. The exhibition will open in Bristol in Spring 2025, and then tour to the other cities.
They want to work with groups of people to select objects for the exhibition and provide responses based on their own lived experience of gender, which could be included in the show. In Bristol, they would like to focus on working with LGBTQ+ people for these sessions.
During the sessions, participants will look at objects from Bristol Museums’ collections, and discuss and make recommendations on which ones should be featured in the exhibition. They will discuss their responses to the objects, and any reflections or questions the objects might prompt, based on participants’ own lived experience of gender. Some of these responses will also be included in the show, with participants’ consent.
These sessions will be led by a professional facilitator with expertise in LGBTQ+ topics, and participants will be paid for their time. The sessions are expected to take place in June and July this year, probably at M Shed or Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, and take about half a day of an individual’s time.
If you are interested or want more information, contact Steven Bradley, Exhibitions & Displays Manager, Bristol Museums.
Email: Steven.Bradley@bristol.gov.uk
Join Bristol Pride and Outstories Bristol for a special LGBT+ history tour on the water.
A Bristol Ferry Boat will take you across the historical harbourside of Bristol and tour guides from Outstories Bristol will rerun their insightful tour into Bristol’s LGBT+ history drawing on the surrounding areas and sights you will see during this one-hour tour. By popular demand we are running two sessions this year, at 12:30pm and 1:45pm.
Sunday 7th July 2024. 12:30pm and 1:45pm
Tour starts from Prince Street ferry stop, near Arnolfini
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£11 + £2 booking fee. Booking is essential and spaces are limited. Book via Bristol Pride.
Our thanks to South Gloucestershire Council for supporting this event.
It is ten years since the introduction of same-sex marriage in the UK.
The first same-sex marriage in Bristol took place in the Lantern Room of the Old Council House on Saturday 29 March 2014. Michael McBeth married Matthew Symonds, their dog Zoly carried their wedding rings in a bag attached to his collar.
The rainbow banner behind Mike and Matthew carried the message ‘just married’. It was donated to the Bristol’s M Shed Museum after the wedding.
This talk by Jonathan Rowe is about lesbian novelist Mary Renault, her Bristol associations and her ground-breaking 1953 male gay love story The Charioteer which is set in a fictionalised Second World War Bristol.
Thursday 8th February 2024, 12:30pm
Bristol Central Library, Deanery Road, Bristol, BS1 5TL
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This talk is free and will be held in the library foyer. No booking is required.
Jonathan is a local historian, Bristol born and bred. He regularly writes for OutStories Bristol and the Bristol Times supplement of the Bristol Post. He is also chairman of Brislington Conservation and History Society, and Secretary of his local drama group for which he has written several productions.
Celebrate and discover LGBTQ+ lives across the centuries.
Bristol’s social history museum M Shed in partnership with OutStories Bristol present a fascinating range of talks highlighting LGBTQ+ stories and heritage. Topics range from the search for ancient trans Celts to a cheeky look at butts in art.
Saturday 24th February 2024, 11am to 4:45pm
M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol BS1 4RN
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The event will be held in the Studio Room on the first floor, upstairs from the main entrance.
Entrance is free. Booking is not required – just come and go as you wish.
There will also be information stalls including Bristol Pride, Bristol Radical History Group, Gay West and the Bristol Museums gender exhibition team.
Each session includes time for Q&A and breaks between talks.
11.10am – 11.15am Welcome by hosts Chloe Little and Marek Barden, Trustees of Outstories Bristol.
11.15am – 11.55am H.H. Gore – Bristol’s Nineteenth Century Gay Christian Socialist Solicitor
Mike Richardson, Bristol Radical History Group
12.05pm – 12.45pm Novelist Mary Renault’s Bristol and The Charioteer Jonathan Rowe, OutStories Bristol
12.55pm – 1.35pm In search of Trans Celts Cheryl Morgan, trans history specialist and diversity advisor
1.35pm – 2pm Interval
2pm – 2.40pm The Gender Exhibition Helen McConnell Simpson and Steve Bradley, Bristol Museums
2.50pm – 3.30pm They’re Just Good Friends – a cheeky look at butts in art and historical documents
Mark Small of Museum Bums
3.40pm – 4.20pm A Sinkhole of Vice and Infamy: Transportation for Sodomy in 1840s Bristol
Andrew Foyle, social historian and member of OutStories Bristol
4.45pm Event closes
Hugh Holmes Gore was a key figure in Bristol’s labour movement during the last two decades of the 19th century. A popular “people’s solicitor” at the service of Bristol’s working class, he also defended militant trade unionists, anarchists and revolutionary socialists.
However in 1898 Gore vanished under mysterious circumstances. His friends suggested a scandal, most probably because of his sexual attraction to men at a time when homosexuality was a criminal offence.
Mike Richardson is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the West of England and an expert on the history of the labour movement in Bristol. One of Bristol Radical History Group’s most prolific writers, his publications include the biography The Enigma of Hugh Holmes Gore.
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This talk by Jonathan Rowe is about lesbian novelist Mary Renault, her Bristol associations and her ground-breaking 1953 male gay love story The Charioteer which is set in a fictionalised Second World War Bristol.
Jonathan is a local historian, Bristol born and bred. He regularly writes for OutStories Bristol and the Bristol Times supplement of the Bristol Post. He is also chairman of Brislington Conservation and History Society, and Secretary of his local drama group for which he has written several productions.
Tribal societies around the world are known to make space for gender diversity in their societies. We’ve observed this in places like the Americas, Africa, Polynesia and Australia. But similar societies in Britain are in the distant past, and from times when little or no writing was done. What can we tell about gender amongst the ancient people of Britain?
Cheryl Morgan, is a Senior Trainer and Consultant in Trans Awareness for the Diversity Trust and a former co-chair of OutStories Bristol. An expert in trans history and literature, she writes for various history blogs and is a frequent speaker at LGBTQ+ History Month events.
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Find out about this exciting exhibition due to open in Spring 2025 exploring the complex and rich theme of gender identity. The show is being developed in partnership with National Museums Liverpool, Brighton & Hove Museums and local communities. The exhibition will tour following its debut in Bristol. Hear about:
Speakers: Helen McConnell Simpson (Senior Curator of History) and Steve Bradley (Exhibitions & Displays Manager), Bristol Museums.
They’re Just Good Friends – a cheeky look at butts in art and historical documentsBased on their eponymous viral Twitter (‘X’) account @museumbums, Museum Bums take us on a whirlwind tour of butts in museums and art galleries around the world. Heritage scholar and art educator Mark Small pairs tongue-in-cheeks humour with insightful commentary on the representation of the naked body in history, and how galleries and museums approach gender and sexual diversity today.
Tasmanian Convict Station, c. 1850 (courtesy State Library of Tasmania)
Andrew Foyle presents new research on the harsh lives of two Bristol men convicted for sodomy in 1842, constructing from scant evidence a plausible hypothesis for their discovery and betrayal. He follows the extraordinary tale of their transportation and eventual fates in the notorious convict stations of Tasmania.
Andrew is an architectural and social historian, and a founder member of OutStories Bristol.
The OutStories Bristol AGM will be held on Saturday 21st October 2023, 11am to 1pm.
Venue: Studio 2 at M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol BS1 4RN
Getting there Access
The AGM is quite a brief meeting and will start around 11.00 am. Following the meeting there will be an opportunity to socialise and catch up with members who we may not have seen in a while, and also a chance to hear about plans for LGBTQ+ History Month 2024. And much more.
Studio 2 is on the first floor of M Shed, turn left at the top of the stairs in the entrance foyer.
Formal Notice of the AGM will be sent to members of OutStories Bristol by email.
Our thanks to Bristol Museums for hosting.
OutStories Bristol in collaboration with the University of Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT) present the 10th John Addington Symonds Annual Lecture.
Saturday 7th October 2023, 2pm to 4pm
Museum Bums explore the inspirations for John Addington SymondsJack Shoulder and Mark Small take a closer look at some of the characters in John Addington Symonds‘ works, in their own trademarked cheeky way.
Jack and Mark are the duo behind the eponymous viral Twitter (‘X’) account @museumbums. They’re also going to do their best to sell their new book “Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art” to you!
This free lecture, which is open to everyone, will take place in hybrid format: both in-person at the Wills Memorial Building and streamed online via Zoom.
Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ
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The talk will be held in Lecture Room 3.33 on the third floor.
After the talk and Q&A, which will last around an hour, you are welcome to join us for tea/coffee in Room 1.5 on the first floor. This is your opportunity to come and chat with members of OutStories Bristol about our activities.
From the main entrance on Queens Road there are stairs to each floor. There is also a ramped entrance at the front of the building and a lift to each floor.
To attend in person please book via this Eventbrite page. Due to room capacity, attendance is limited to 22 people so book early! You do not need to print your ticket.
If you wish to join the online webinar instead, please register here. Prior to the event you will be sent an email with Zoom joining instructions.
Mark Small and Jack Shoulder
The talk is an annual celebration of the life of John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), Bristol-based writer, art historian and pioneer of homosexual rights.
This event is held by OutStories Bristol in collaboration with the University of Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition (IGRCT). Our thanks to the IGRCT for hosting this event.
Find out more about the IGRCT on their website; you can also find them on Facebook and Twitter @Bristol_IGRCT.
Bristol based performance artist Tom Marshman is hosting a series of tea parties to discuss the impact of Section 28 on the queer community.
The tea parties are a place to meet and share stories over tea and biscuits. You could have lived through this time or be curious to know more. Everyone is welcome.
These tea parties are research for a new show by Tom for Bristol 650 as winner of an Unlimited Partner Award chosen by Bristol Ideas. With permission, participants’ responses will feed into this new work as an important and valuable part of the process. A work in progress of the work will be presented in November at The Wardrobe Theatre.
One of Tom’s tea parties will be held at Bristol’s M Shed museum.
Admission is free but a donation to M Shed would be appreciated.
Book via the M Shed website.
Saturday 26th August 2023, 11am to 1pm.
M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol BS1 4RN
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Jonathan Rowe, a regular contributor to this website, will give an illustrated talk on Bristol-born gay poet Fabian Strachan Woodley (1888-1957). A military hero of the First World War and awarded the Military Cross, he was also a jounalist, sportsman, school teacher and a Christian.
Some of his poems feature in the very first American anthology of male same-sex love poetry published in the USA in 1924.
This is a Brislington Conservation and History Society event.
£4 for non-members. Refreshments available
Thursday 26th October 2023, 7:30pm
St Cuthbert’s Church Crypt, Sandy Park Road, Brislington, Bristol BS4 3PG
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After welcoming an incredible 40,000+ people to The Downs in 2022, Bristol Pride Day is back!
OutStories will be there with a stall in the Community Area. Come and say hello!
Saturday 8th July 2023, 1pm onwards
The Downs, Westbury Park, Bristol
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Not only is Bristol Pride one of the largest UK Pride events, it’s one of Bristol’s largest festivals, and named in the Top50 World Pride events in 2018 & 2019.
Buy your Pride Day Supporter Wristband now! Bristol Pride is a not for profit charity and every penny from supporter wristbands goes to make Pride happen.
See you there!
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With just days to go to the start of Bristol’s 2023 Pride fortnight, two incidents show that homophobia still lurks.
An attacker damaged a billboard advertising Bristol Pride within 24 hours of the poster being displayed. The fire service were called just after midnight 19/6/2023 after reports that the billboard in Station Road, Montpelier, had been deliberately set ablaze. Police investigated the incident as a ‘hate crime’. Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees condemned the attack saying there was ‘no room for senseless vandalism or hate’ in Bristol.
The incident was the second attack on the LGBTQ+ community in less than a week.
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Susie Day and her partner put a £6 Dunelm ‘Pride’ doormat outside their Bedminster home. The doormat was soon stolen so they went out and bought a new one, this time glueing it down so it couldn’t be taken. Later they found the rainbow-coloured doormat had been blacked out with spray paint.
But this story had a positive ending. When their neighbours learnt what had happened, many responded by going out and buying their own Pride doormats. Now the street is gradually filling with the colourful doormats and the couple say they have been overwhelmed by the support.
Join Bristol Pride and Outstories Bristol for a special LGBT+ history tour on the water.
We once again take you across the historical harbourside of Bristol and tour guides from Outstories Bristol will rerun their insightful tour into Bristol’s LGBT+ history drawing on the surrounding areas and sights you will see during this one-hour tour. By popular demand we are running two sessions this year.
Sunday 2nd July 2023. 10am and 11am
Tour starts from Prince Street ferry stop, near Arnolfini
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£10 + £1.97 booking fee. Booking is essential and spaces are limited. Book via Bristol Pride. SOLD OUT
Our thanks to South Gloucestershire Council for supporting this event.
Throat parched: hand trembling: choice made. They reach for the phone: a piercing ring: the wait unending. Deep inhale: a silent breath: the whole world pauses just for a moment…
Hello? Is anybody there…? Are you a …. are you a gay person?
Welcome to Switchboard, a LGBTQ History Month show by radical performance artist Astro-Zenica.
The show draws on archival research, call logs from the Bristol Lesbian and Gay Switchboard (1975–2012), and oral histories about queer nightlife and protest in the 1970s and 80s. Astro explores the myriad codes and languages developed by queer people to reach out, hook-up and find community. The codes for making friends and fighting back in a world often violent and harsh to the emergence of the queer spirit. Naïve in its beginnings, there is a longing for acceptance and search for connection.
There’s something in this being held, in the call that answers… before the phone connection dies and the next choice is made….
This is a show about class, violence, access, visibility, hedonism, sexual freedom and community.
Written as a Valentine’s Day love letter to the radical queers, the club promoters, the party starters, the drag artists, the volunteers at the switchboard, and most of all to Dale Wakefield, who opened the switchboard at her home in Totterdown in 1975.
Dale and the team received thousands of calls in the Switchboard’s opening years. They were listening to the fears, signposting to the club, offering rescue missions to those attacked on the street, and becoming a beacon of support during the AIDS crisis. All because of a belief in and commitment to the power of community.
For those who are living and for the many more who have died, this one’s for you.
Written by Astro-Zenica. Set design by Emily Diamond. Image: Jason Leung.
Find the artists on Instagram:
@AstroZenica_
@TheHouseOfSavalon
@e_diamond_sculpture
This event is provided by Bristol Museums in assocation with OutStories Bristol.
Tuesday 14th February 2023. 7.30pm—9.30pm
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
Getting there Accessibility
This event is aged 18+
Tickets: £12 adult, £10 concession
Book in advance from Bristol Museums
A 17th century opera singer, skilled duellist … and one-time convent arsonist to rescue her nun girlfriend?
Julie d’Aubigny, aka La Maupin, has a larger-than-life track record. And although some parts of her story are lost between fact and fiction, her open love of both genders has made her a historical bisexual icon.
Join us for an exploration of Julie’s life, how her swordfighting intersected with ideas of queerness in early modern France and how she has inspired new LGBTQ+ and feminist retellings.
This event is provided by Bristol Museums in association with Outstories Bristol for LGBTQ+ History Month 2023.
Speaker:
Claire Mead (she/her) is a fencer and a sword lesbian public historian. When she is not working around community engagement and queer representation in museums and heritage, she is educating around inclusive arms and armour via her YouTube channel JoustGalPals and her podcast on swordswomen throughout history, Bustles & Broadswords. She also has a webcomic, Girls’ School of Knighthood. Find her at @carmineclaire on most social media.
Guest host:
Cheryl Morgan (she/her) is the former Co-chair of Outstories Bristol and a Senior Trainer for the Diversity Trust. As a self-confessed ‘trans history geek’, she is a regular speaker on the LGBTQ+ History Month circuit and has written several history blogs.
Wednesday 15th February 2023, 6:30pm to 7:30pm
This free, online talk will be held over Zoom
Book via the Bristol Museums website. Details of how to join the session will be in your registration email. Bookings close at 6pm on Wednesday 15th February.
Although this talk is free, Bristol Museums would be grateful if you could consider making a donation.
Aleksandr Aleksandrov was a hero of the Napoleonic wars. Ukrainian by birth, he had signed up as a teenager to fight for Russia against the French invaders. His bravery earned him several medals, including receiving the Cross of St. George from the Tsar himself.
But Aleksandrov was not quite what he seemed. His birth name was Nadezhda Durova. He had a husband and a son.
After the war, Aleksandrov continued to live as a man. He became friends with the novelist Pushkin who encouraged him to write an autobiography. This was later published as The Cavalry Maiden.
Since then, Aleksandrov’s story has often been portrayed as that of a brave woman disguising herself as a man to fight for her country. But recent research into Aleksandrov’s personal archive tells a very different story, and one that will be very familiar to trans people today.
In this talk Cheryl Morgan will reveal the life of Aleksandr Aleksandrov and recent research about ‘The Cavalry Maiden’.
This event is provided by Bristol Museums in association with Outstories Bristol for LGBTQ+ History Month 2023.
Cheryl Morgan
Speaker:
Cheryl Morgan (she/her) is the former Co-chair of Outstories Bristol and a Senior Trainer for the Diversity Trust. As a self-confessed ‘trans history geek’, she is a regular speaker on the LGBTQ+ History Month circuit and has written several history blogs.
Guest host:
Kim Renfrew (she/her) is a Postgraduate Researcher (PhD) at UWE who is researching gender, sexuality and lesbian identities. She is a former Trustee of Outstories Bristol.
Tuesday 21st February 2023, 6:30pm to 7:30pm
This free, online talk will be held over Zoom
Book via the Bristol Museums website. Details of how to join the session will be in your registration email. Bookings close at 6pm on Tuesday 21st February.
Although this talk is free, Bristol Museums would be grateful if you could consider making a donation.
Come and say ‘hello’ at the OutStories Bristol stall at the Trans Pride South West Community Day on Saturday 26th November. The event is free and open to all.
Find out how we research and record the stories of LGBTQ+ people in this region. We want more material from the trans communities in the south west. Do you have documents, leaflets and newsletters about local groups that we could add to our archives? Newspaper cuttings? Photographs?
Above all we seek to record the experiences, life stories and recollections of anyone, regardless of age, who identifies as transgender, non-binary or intersex.
The Trans Pride South West Community Day is part of a fortnight of events for Trans Pride South West 2022.
Saturday 26th November 2022, 12pm to 4pm
The Station, Silver Street, Bristol, BS1 2AG
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Website: http://tpsw.co.uk
