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Forbidden Lives: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Stories from Wales

Forbidden Lives: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Stories from Wales

Shopland, Norena

Paperback

General World HistoryGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1781724105
ISBN13: 9781781724101
Publisher: Seren Books
Published: Nov 17 2017
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Forbidden Lives is a fascinating collection of portraits and discussions that aims to populate LGBT gaps in the history of Wales, a much neglected part of Welsh heritage. In it Norena Shopland reviews the reasons for this neglect while outlining the activity behind the recent growth of the LGBT profile here. She also surveys LGBT people and their activity as far back as Giraldus Cambrensis' Journey Through Wales in the twelfth century where he reports on 'bearded women' and other hermaphrodites. There is still plenty of work to do, as chapters on the responses to Pride in Wales and the first gay play, We All Fall Down, clearly show. But the stories of the people portrayed in the book are less likely to be repeated: the LGBT community has moved from living forbidden lives to a place largely less forbidding. Norena Shopland helps us understand the struggle which achieved these changes.

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