Blogs

This is a page for all things LGBTQ+ history with reference to Wales. If you have a blog to contribute, please feel free to submit, providing: Text and pictures must be yours and properly credited; if copyright-free, the source must be provided. All liability for content remains with the author. Only items with a link to Wales will be included.

The Post-1957 Shift in LGBTQIA+ Language in Wales
Term Anniversaries- Vital Landmarks for Welsh LGBTQIA+ History
A touch of cross-dressing in Bridgend
Mystery Gauze, the female impersonator
Developing an LGBTQ+ collection at St Fagans National Museum of History
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
Stuart Neale
Rhagwenau Rhyfedd- The Wonderful World of Weird Welsh Pronouns
Gay Geeky Gymru*
John Sam Jones’ evidence to the Welsh Affairs – First Report
Creating Llandudno’s Hidden History: LGBTQ Heritage Walk
‘Matrimonial ties’
The Baroness of Ystrad Rhondda: an early drag act
Queer Ancestry- A look into the familial lives of some of Wales’ Queer historical figures
Speech for the BAGIS (British Association of Gender Identity Specialists) Virtual Conference
Papurau Pinc | Pink Papers: 18th-21st Century Welsh language newspaper reporting on Queer folk
Queering Whale’s The Old Dark House
Queer readings in J. B. Priestley’s Benighted
The Case of the 450 year-old Word: A Queer Welsh slur throughout the centuries
Cranogwen’s love for Fanny Rees (Welsh version)
Cranogwen’s love for Fanny Rees (English version)
‘The Conquest, or a Mail Companion’ Review
Short story: The Conquest, or a Mail Companion (1837)
Queering ‘The Murder of My Aunt’ (1934)
Is this a lesbian poem?
The Female Husband
Woman in the Habit of a Man