Queer Print in Europe

Glyn Davis is Professor of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven books, including The Richard Dyer Reader (BFI/Bloomsbury, co-edited with Jaap Kooijman, forthcoming 2022), The Living End: A Queer Film Classic (forthcoming, 2022), and Pop Cinema (co-edited with Tom Day, forthcoming 2022). From 2016 to 2019, Glyn was the Project Leader of ‘Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures’, a pan-European queer history project funded by HERA and the European Commission (www.crusev.ed.ac.uk).Laura Guy is Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at The Glasgow School of Art, UK. Her research focuses on post-1960s photographic, documentary and print cultures and has recently been published in Third Text, Women: A Cultural Review, Aperture and Frieze. She is editor of Phyllis Christopher, Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003 (2021).

Queer Print in Europe presents a timely and necessary analysis of queer printmaking, zines and print culture. It is unique in its use of interviews, its wide-ranging historical and political analysis and its challenge to a rights-based historical teleology common in North American analyses of LGBTQ+ cultural phenomenon.

• Introduction, Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Laura Guy (Glasgow School of Art, UK)Part One: Politics of Community Building1. Silent Voices: The ‘Arabs’ and Gay Liberation in France, Antoine Idier (ESAM, France)2. ‘Happiness was in the Pages of this Monthly’: The Birth of the Lesbian Press in France and the Fabric of a Space of One’s Own (1976-1990), Ilana Eloit (University of Geneva, Switzerland)3. Seeking Acceptance or Revolution? An Overview of the First Italian LGBTQ Magazines, 1971-1979, Dario Pasquini (Independent Researcher, Italy)4. Change Always has to Build: In Conversation with Gail Lewis, Taylor Le Melle (Independent Researcher, the Netherlands) Part Two: Materials and Making5. The Sexual Revolt in Spain in the 1970s through its Publications: Ideas, Fears and Aesthetics, Alberto Berzosa (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain) and Gracia Trujillo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)6. Sexual Difference and Queer Subjectivity in Slovak LGBTQ Print Periodicals, Viera Lorencova (Fitchburg State University, USA)7. Revolt Press, Internationalization and the Development of Gay Markets in Sweden before HIV/AIDS, Thomas Cubbin (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)8. Mietje: In Conversation with Gert Hekma and Mattias Duyves, Benny Nemer (Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Belgium)Part Three: Generational Interactions 9. This Too is Polish Culture: In Conversation with Karol Radziszewski, Aleksandra Gajowy (Independent Researcher, UK)10. Queer Memory in (re)Constituting and Forgetting the Trans ‘70s in the UK, Nat Raha (University of St Andrews, UK)11. Encapsulated Time: Generational and Cultural Discrepancies in West German Lesbian Magazines of the 1970s, Janin Afken (Humboldt University, Germany)12. Lavender Menace Revisited: In Conversation with Sigrid Nielsen, Bob Orr and James Ley, Fiona Anderson (Newcastle University, UK)