Throughout LGBTQ+ history, suburbia was somewhere to escape from: a place where heterosexuality ruled, difference was not tolerated, and you’d never find a soulmate. John Grindrod talks to Emmett Scanlon about Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains.
‘Fantastically entertaining alternative history of queer life in Britain.’ The Guardian
For many those streets of twitching curtains and pebble-dashed semis were — or still are — a place to call home. Tales of the Suburbs explores the relatively untold twentieth century tale of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in suburbia. Through remarkable archive material and original interviews featured in Tales of the Suburbs, John Grindrod shares stories that are messy and moving, dark and funny, uplifting and extraordinary.
In conversation with Emmett Scanlon, architect, curator and director of the Irish Architecture Foundation.
Presented in partnership between the IAF and the International Literature Festival Dublin.
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