Research into the LGBTQ+ history of Wales
[Chapter extract from the Undergraduate dissertation “What drove the development of Welsh-language LGBTQIA+ terminology 1972-2022” by Luke Blaidd (2023)] Fig. 1: Welsh LGBTQIA+ dictionary terminology timeline and events in UK LGBTQIA+ history 1957-2007 Welsh language LGBTQIA+ terminology in the mid-20th Century was much the same as it had been in the 19th and 18th Centuries. … Read More “The Post-1957 Shift in LGBTQIA+ Language in Wales” »
2002 Troublesome priest As the Church prepares to elect a new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Wales Rowan Williams is the front-runner. Williams from the traditionalist Anglo-Catholic branch of the church, is an ‘Affirming Catholic’ – one who is strongly in favour of women priests (and wants to make them bishops) and who is … Read More “2002-2003” »
1953 Jeffrey John is born on 10 February in Tonyrefail, Rhondda Cynon Taf. A Church of England priest he made headlines in 2003 when he was the first person in a same-sex relationship to be nominated as a Church of England bishop. 1954 B.B.C. Artist charged Bail was allowed by the magistrates at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, … Read More “1950s” »
