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Divine: The Incomparably Insane Star of Pink Flamingos [...] With Accompanying Leaflet Queer Ephemera This poster, published by Camp Books in 2018 as part of the Queer Ephemera series, reproduces a Xerox flyer advertising drag icon Divine at Boston’s Pipeline nightclub on 12 March. The flyer exemplifies the DIY aesthetics of queer nightlife promotion, where photocopied posters circulated within underground club scenes. Both celebration and archive, it reflects the visibility, creativity, and resilience of LGBTQ+ communities and their cultural spaces in the late twentieth century. -
Homogenic Love, and Its Place in a Free Society Socialist Edward Carpenter used his writing to advocate for new ways of living. This appeal for gay and lesbian equality was published in 1894, only the year before Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for his homosexuality. Carpenter had hoped this essay would be published as part of a collection but the text was deemed dangerous and was published as a pamphlet for private circulation only. -
Queer Between the Covers: Maud Allan Part of a larger book arts work called 'Queer Between the Covers', this book focusses on dancer Maud Allan, who famously performed ‘The Dance of the Seven Veils’ in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. In a 1918 article entitled ‘The Cult of the Clitoris’, MP Noel Pemberton Billing falsely claimed Allan used her sexuality as a German collaborator. This book work uses paper folds to suggest revelation and secrecy.