Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026(There's something so... permanent about the word indefinitely which I really hate, but it feels apt. I cannot commit to any particular path of my future right now. The status quo is indefinite. It's anxiety inducing to use but that's where we're at!) 011
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Since it seems I am finally set to be starting my new job tomorrow, I would like to share that I am taking a step back from pursuing a career in Higher Education indefinitely. This is, of course, not an easy decision, and not one I've really had to make, since it was basically made for me. 120
Reposted by Alan ✨Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A new essay for all my trans siblings and our allies. "As the UK enters a new era of state-mandated segregation, I find myself asking: was it all worth it?"ruthpearce.netWhat we have wonIt was the largest trans protest in British history. We travelled from across the country to central London. We were joined by allies, especially cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people who re… 14362147
Reposted by Alan ✨Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026📣 New article online! 'The Ukrainian Football Federation Declares Independence (1959–65)', by Yacov Zohn Muldoon Read #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 063
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Popped into the Putney Waterstones on my way back from buying some baking bits and spotted @carolinesharples.bsky.social in the wild!! 120
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Last year I tried making a sign for Trans Pride and managed to mess it up. It was double sided with the trans flag on one side and non-binary flag on the other. When I write on the trans side, the non-binary flag was then upside down on the back... This year I fixed it !! 140
Reposted by Alan ✨Daniel Gallen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 24/07/2026We're really looking forward to our Queer Studies Symposium at the University of Galway on August 4th. Registration is now open through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/university... Once again, huge thanks to @historyatgalway.bsky.social & @philosophygalway.bsky.social for all the support!eventbrite.ieUniversity of Galway Queer Studies SymposiumAn academic Queer Studies Symposium being held at the University of Galway to coincide with Galway Pride Week and showcase LGBTQ+ research. 062
Reposted by Alan ✨History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 🏛️ Power, violence and consent are not the same thing. Harry Tanner untangles one of the biggest misunderstandings about sexuality in the ancient world. 📚 🎧 Listen now: www.patreon.com/hist... #History #RomanHistory #HistoryPodcast #LGBTQHistory 074
Reposted by Alan ✨qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026qUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan Stryker 19 Oct 6pm, UCL From nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies, Stryker finds surprising places to tune into the origins, idiosyncrasies & generative possibilities of the gender concept www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...ucl.ac.ukqUCL Annual Lecture: 'Changing Gender' with Susan StrykerFrom nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracies to examples from her lifetime as an agenda setting historian, filmmaker and activist, Stryker finds surprising places to tune ... 055
Reposted by Alan ✨Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com · 12/07/2026New Campaign: Protect Pride. Protect Democracy! 🏳️🌈 I'm so Proud (with a capital 'P') to see this go live. protectprideprotectdemocracy.com 111958
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Delighted to share that I will be speaking at the University of Westminster's Queering Academia conference as part of the panel "Queer Lives in London: Community, Survival and Care." For anyone interested in the panel, you can join us at 12 using the link: www.westminster.ac.uk/current-stud... 040
Reposted by Alan ✨Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026#TodayInQueerHistory June 24 (1973) New York City hosts the Christopher Street Libertation Day rally. Sylvia Rivera, who helped many in the community, was excluded from speaking by 'white middle class gays.' She takes the mic anyway, and delivers her blistering "Y'all Better Quiet Down" speech. 14113
Reposted by Alan ✨Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026📣New queer geographies podcast! 🌈🎓 Introducing 'Space & Sexuality': Every 2 weeks, I share conversations with leading & emerging scholars across queer/trans geographies of sex and sexualities. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the first 2 ep's: open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR... 1146
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Lovely weekend at home teaching my nieces and nephews to call me doctor uncle Alan now.. I'm not sure it's going to stick but we'll keep trying 030
Reposted by Alan ✨Daniel Gallen 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @gallenator85.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Excited to announce that myself and @altirishhistorian.bsky.social are organising a Queer Studies Symposium in the University of Galway on August 4th 2026. See the Call for Papers below if you'd like to get involved! For any questions, please DM me or email d.gallen2@universityofgalway.ie. 187
Reposted by Alan ✨The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Join us for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the issue 📅 16 July, 6:30 - 8pm 📍 The Wiener Holocaust Library, London Free tickets:buff.lySpecial Issue Launch: Queer Experiences in the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust LibraryJoin us for the launch of a new Holocaust Studies special issue on queer experiences during the Holocaust at which we will hear from a panel of editors and contributors to the special issue including… 066
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 17/06/2026So very pleased to share that I successfuly defended my thesis earlier today! Thank you to my wonderful supervisory team for their support over the last few years, and to Al and Craig for coming all the way to Roehampton to speak about my research! It was an absolute joy 160
Reposted by Alan ✨Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.com‘In the eyes of the law I might be a man but what do I look like?’: trans women and sex work in 1980s and 1990s EnglandThis article considers the precarious position of trans sex workers in 1980 s and early 1990 s England by examining the ambiguities of medico-legal interpretations of their identities and labour. D... 14221
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Never in my life did I expect to be so happy to see an episode of doctor who cancelled but if it means THAT show runner is no longer in charge then I'm happy to see my childhood show enter the wilderness years 000
Reposted by Alan ✨João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 09/06/2026🚨CFP🚨 “Visual Cultures of Sexuality in Postwar Europe” (Birmingham City University, 19-20 May, 2027) 11911
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The sinking in my heart when I opened Instagram after a long day of revising my associate fellowship application to see Anthony Head has left us is indescribable... 020
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Huge congratulations to @joejukes.bsky.social and @rachelbayer.bsky.social on an informative and inspiring presentation on Asexual Geographies for the first @aroaceresearch.bsky.social talk. Very excited to see how and where Asexual Geographies will develop in the future 241
Reposted by Alan ✨Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network's Online Talk Series starts today at 3pm Irish/UK time! Join us as we introduce the emerging sub-field of Asexual Geographies & talk about all things space, place, and asexuality 💜 🌍 ✨ Link here: www.aroaceresearch.com/events 084
Reposted by Alan ✨Layla McCay @laylamccay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Lots of you have been asking about my new non-fiction book The Queer Bookshelf about the history (and present and future) of LGBTQ+ literature. Today is book launch day in the UK. Anything you can do to help talk about it and make it a moment would make me joyful. And of course, buy the book!waterstones.comThe Queer Bookshelf by Layla McCay | WaterstonesBuy The Queer Bookshelf by Layla McCay from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. 0122
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I am not in Birmingham so I can't make this but if any of my followers are please do tag along and let me know how it goes!! 010
Reposted by Alan ✨George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgHIV/AIDS and the English Countryside | The Historical Journal | Cambridge CoreHIV/AIDS and the English Countryside 04722
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Very apt that the viva for my thesis, the first critical history of the London Pride March, will be held in Pride month. 041
Reposted by Alan ✨Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 01/06/2026We're celebrating Pride Month! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Browse our curated reading list and use discount code PRIDE30 at checkout for 30% OFF until 30th June 2026. Head to our Blog here to shop now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06... @sachacoward.bsky.social @jennychambles.bsky.social #PrideMonth #booksky 0248
Reposted by Alan ✨Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 01/06/2026Now that’s what people power stopping hate and bringing hope looks like! ✨🌈 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/…theguardian.com‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the minersSolidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money 010340
Reposted by Alan ✨Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Teaching and learning are radical acts of resistance. Resources for teaching LGBTQ history: chssp.ucdavis.edu/lgbtq-primar... 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #sschat 🍎chssp.ucdavis.eduLGBTQ Primary Sources 1168
Reposted by Alan ✨King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 01/06/2026👐 How can we build stronger forms of solidarity, support, and belonging for queer diasporic communities in the UK? This Queer@King's workshop brings together activists, researchers, students, and community organisers on 12 June 🌈 🔗 Register ⤵️buff.lyQueer Diasporas: Solidarity, Activism, and Belonging | King's College LondonHow we can build stronger forms of solidarity, support, and belonging for queer diasporic communities. 011
Reposted by Alan ✨Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network @aroaceresearch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026We are delighted to welcome @rachelbayer.bsky.social and @joejukes.bsky.social for the first session of the Aro/Ace Online Talk Series who will introduce us to #asexual #geographies! The talk will take place on zoom next Friday, 5 June, at 3pm (UK). Link here: www.aroaceresearch.com/events 0149
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 23/05/2026While I am still recovering from all the work and excitement that went into yesterday, it's been really nice to feel hopeful about future directions for my work on Pride in London. Even if getting a foothold into academia is difficult right now, there are so many alternate paths I can pursue 101
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to present on my research thesis with such a diverse and engaged audience today. My particular thanks go to Pippa and Zoë for their contribution to the roundtable discussion, it was really inspiring to hear them talk about their experience. 1100
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Really wanting to practice my script for Friday but there are builders on our roof hammering away so I have instead spent the majority of my day overstimulated, trying to flush the sound out with noise cancelling headphones, and finishing marking the final essay submissions for my module. 000
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 15/05/2026ONE WEEK TO GO Interested in learning more about the history of the London Pride March? How LGBTQ+ Communities have used Pride symbols to visualise the politics of their identities over the last fifty years? Then join me on May 22 at 11am BST to find out more. Sign up: forms.gle/ovZ57oMzZgS2...forms.gleResearch Seminar: Symbols of Pride & the Politics of Queer Liberation + RoundableJoin PhD candidate Alan Lee (University of Roehampton) on May 22 as he shares the findings of his PhD thesis: Symbols of Pride & the Politics of Queer Liberation. Over the last fifty years, LGBTQ+ com... 110
Reposted by Alan ✨Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 07/05/2026We have just had a room upgrade!! Rather than GH008, we will now be in the David Bell Building in DB109. 021
Reposted by Alan ✨Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Save the date! June 17, 2026. Thrilled to help launch Matt Cook's new book Writing Queer History at Mansfield College, Oxford together with Jeffrey Weeks (South Bank), Rebecca Jennings (UCL), and Colin Johnson (Indiana State). www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-wri...eventbrite.comLaunch: Writing Queer History by Matt CookPanel discussion and book launch. 02110
Reposted by Alan ✨Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi... 38530
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 07/05/2026We have just had a room upgrade!! Rather than GH008, we will now be in the David Bell Building in DB109. 021
Reposted by Alan ✨Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I have organised a (hybrid) research seminar to talk about the findings of my PhD thesis for May 22 at 11am. I am joined by Pippa Catterall, @frammaturo.bsky.social and Zoë Playdon for a roundtable discussion. Sign-up form, including an abstract for the paper: forms.gle/b5GK8bYye9YD... 142
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Absolutely bewildering that as I finish replacing the battery for my laptop on my own at 23:37 on a Tuesday, I think, for the first time in a long time, how proud my older brother would've been of me. I didn't even feel this when I handed in my thesis. A project I dedicated to him. Grief is strange 000
Reposted by Alan ✨Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I am thrilled to be part of this new forum in German History alongside wonderful colleagues for which I have a lot of respect (even though...yes..we do disagree 😆). Thank you @npapadogian.bsky.social and Craig Griffiths for this opportunity!academic.oup.comForum New Directions in Queer and Trans* German History*Abstract. Through dialogic responses by ten historians of the queer and trans* German-speaking world, this Forum takes stock of a vibrant and growing field 1239
Reposted by Alan ✨Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 03/05/2026“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.com‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay menPublic records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s 1020990
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I have organised a (hybrid) research seminar to talk about the findings of my PhD thesis for May 22 at 11am. I am joined by Pippa Catterall, @frammaturo.bsky.social and Zoë Playdon for a roundtable discussion. Sign-up form, including an abstract for the paper: forms.gle/b5GK8bYye9YD... 142
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Looking forward to sharing details of an upcoming research seminar and roundtable on Monday! 000