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A touch of cross-dressing in Bridgend

Posted on 15 March 2023 By Norena Shopland
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Norena Shopland I came across this old newspaper recently, it is a 1976, 100-year celebration edition of the Glamorgan Gazette. Interesting what you can find when leafing through, such as a bit of cross-dressing from an ‘Old family album’ – Note the intimate touching in both photos –

Mystery Gauze, the female impersonator

Posted on 6 March 20238 March 2023 By Norena Shopland
Blogs

Norena Shopland Sometimes, when recording a history of diversity, diversity within diversity often gets left out. We struggle at the best of times to find cases of sexual orientation and gender identity but finding minority ethnic or disability, for example, within that history is ten times harder. Consequently, we are often left with a history … Read More “Mystery Gauze, the female impersonator” »

Developing an LGBTQ+ collection at St Fagans National Museum of History

Posted on 11 February 202311 February 2023 By Norena Shopland
Blogs

I’m Mark and I’m the Curator of LGBTQ+ History at St Fagans National Museum of History. St Fagans is in Cardiff, and is part of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales’ family of seven museums across Wales. St Fagans tells the story of Wales from 230,000 years ago to the present day through its three indoor … Read More “Developing an LGBTQ+ collection at St Fagans National Museum of History” »

Read the back

Posted on 7 December 2022 By Norena Shopland
Artefacts and Archives

Norena Shopland Postcards are always a good and relatively cheap way to build up any collection. While it is harder to find those representing sexual orientation and gender identity, it is possible to find some items, particularly of more well-known people, such as the Ladies of Llangollen around whom a whole merchandising business grew up … Read More “Read the back” »

Queering Onania: some 17th and 18th-century sexual orientation and gender identity stories

Posted on 30 November 202230 November 2022 By Norena Shopland
Blogs

Norena Shopland When considering a history of sexual orientation and gender identity in Wales we cannot always concentrate on items specifically related to the country and its people – for example, bestselling books would have been read throughout the UK. Bearing this in mind, I’ve taken a look at two books, one from the seventeenth … Read More “Queering Onania: some 17th and 18th-century sexual orientation and gender identity stories” »

A brief history of Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Other terminology in Welsh dictionaries

Posted on 7 November 2022 By Norena Shopland
A brief history of Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Other terminology in Welsh dictionaries
Blogs

by Luke Blaidd Following on from my first blog The Case of the 450 year-old Word: A Queer Welsh slur throughout the centuries (in which I dove into the history of the terminology used for gay men in Welsh), this blog is a short history of the lesbian, bisexual, trans and intersex terminology used in … Read More “A brief history of Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Other terminology in Welsh dictionaries” »

Stuart Neale

Posted on 7 October 20227 October 2022 By Norena Shopland
Blogs

by Syd Morgan In December 1971, Plaid Cymru’s monthly newspaper, Welsh Nation, published a letter from Cardiff Gay Liberation Front. Its content was an attempt to fuse the demands of the GLF with those of the Party’s aims. It had been written by Stuart Neale, active in both organisations and this narrative chronicles his attempt … Read More “Stuart Neale” »

Rhagwenau Rhyfedd- The Wonderful World of Weird Welsh Pronouns

Posted on 15 September 202217 October 2022 By Norena Shopland
Blogs

Luke Blaidd The Hanes LHDT+ Cymru blog normally focuses on LGBTQ+ Welsh history past, however, I would like to introduce the potential Welsh language history of the future: Gender neutral pronouns. The inclusion of gender neutral pronouns in everyday Welsh is hugely historic for the language and is already underway in pockets of Welsh speaking LGBTQ+ … Read More “Rhagwenau Rhyfedd- The Wonderful World of Weird Welsh Pronouns” »

Gay Geeky Gymru*

Posted on 2 September 20222 September 2022 By Norena Shopland
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*the bad alliteration is intentional by oskawrites.gay Queerness, Welshness and geekiness have always had an overlap. Like any large group of people, there are going to be plenty of subgroups, and the subgroup of queer geeks in Wales was never more visible than on the 13th of August, 2013. On this weekend, Pride Cymru and … Read More “Gay Geeky Gymru*” »

John Sam Jones’ evidence to the Welsh Affairs – First Report

Posted on 31 August 202231 August 2022 By Norena Shopland
Blogs

My name is John Sam Jones. I am a Welsh-speaking Welshman from Meirionnydd (originally). Currently I work as the Adviser for Personal and Social Education (PSE) in Denbighshire Education Service. For the past five years I have chaired the North Wales Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual (LGB) and Police Liaison Group and for the last 18 months I have … Read More “John Sam Jones’ evidence to the Welsh Affairs – First Report” »

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