The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵
Front cover of the book Queer in a Wee Place
The event also celebrates the launch of the fantastic new edited collection Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland ✨
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Event page for LGBTQ Lives and the 2026 Scottish Election
Tickets going fast for next week's panel event exploring LGBTQ lives and the 2026 Scottish election.
🗓️ 21 April, 3pm BST
🌍 @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
👋 All welcome
@uoe-sps.bsky.social | queerinaweeplace.eventbrite.co.uk
Tickets go live next week for the Queer Data Showcase. Save the date, 10 June, Manchester.
Save the date | 10 June | Manchester
The 2026 Queer Data Showcase is coming!
🎟️ Tickets go live next week!
#queer #data #manchester
Description of the call for papers, visit the journal web page for the full text.
We welcome submissions from the social sciences and the humanities – across disciplines, methodological traditions and national contexts.
📢 Please share with interested colleagues and networks.
📅 Expressions of interest (draft abstract, max 500 words) due: 1 June 2026.
Description of the call for papers, visit the journal web page for the full text.
📊 How does data about sex, gender and sexuality travel beyond their original contexts of production – shaping public debates, policy, activism and everyday understandings in ways that are often unintended?
Text reads: Call for papers, Special issue. The Cultural Lives and Afterlives of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Data, in Sexuality & Culture. Guest editors: Dr Amin Ghaziani & Dr Kevin Guyan. Expressions of interest due: 1 June 2026.
🔥 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Cultural Lives and Afterlives of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Data.
I'm co-editing a Special Issue of Sexuality & Culture with Amin Ghaziani.
📝 Full details: link.springer.com/collections/hcbbadjbha
#CfP #callforpapers #sexuality #gender #data
a bright pink background showing drawings of people enjoying music or using a rainbow megaphone, and in the centre is a copy of Yvette Taylor's book Queer in a Wee Place
We're so looking forward to hosting editor @yvettetaylor.bsky.social and contributors to the new book QUEER IN A WEE PLACE: SMALL NATIONS, SEXUALITY AND SCOTLAND at our sold-out launch tonight! You can still get online tickets, or email us for the waitlist! lighthousebookshop.com/events/queer...
🗣️ We’re also discussing themes from the book at a free panel event at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social on 21 April. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-in-a...
And – of course – I also speak about data! And the translation of messy queer experiences into palatable problems that are understood as *easier* for the state to resolve.
📖 Available open-access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
🔍 Hate crime law offers a useful lens for thinking about the dangers of inclusion as it invites the police into the intimate nooks of queer lives and affirms state agencies as arbiters for what lives count, who is worthy of protection and which types of hate matter.
The front cover of Queer in a Wee Place.
Text reads: Hate crime in Scotland and the classification of queer lives: Doors, data and definitions. A razor-thin line exists between safety and danger for LGBTQ people in Scotland. One misstep a glance at the wrong person, a flamboyant hand gesture, a lilt in your speech can mark the moment when everything changes for the worse. Smiles turn to tears, blood and bruises. When the switch happens, as it so often does, the response of the police and courts depends on who you are or are perceived to be. The process of classifying you as 'something' reflects societal assumptions about categories of gender, sex and sexuality: the lifestyles that count as lives, the practices deemed possible and where these decisions locate you on a hierarchical ladder stretching between protection and harm.
✨ Happy publication day to Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland!
In my chapter, I use hate crime as a starting point for a broader discussion of the cracks in Scotland’s liberal and inclusive imaginary as a queer, wee place.
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
🔔 final reminder! I promise! 🔔
LavLang 32 abstract submission deadline is THIS SATURDAY - get scribbling, come join us in Edinburgh in September for a brilliant conference ft. Dr. Nikki Lane, Dr. @kevinguyan.bsky.social, Prof. Erez Levon, Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli, Dr. @mxeddie.bsky.social and YOU? 🤩
Such a highlight! 📖 ✨
We're hiring! Come and work with us 🏳️⚧️
Applications close on 10th April 📩
Trans people will just not disclose... As many have always done and more will rightly not disclose because it is not safe.
There are ways to get this kind of data that could be safer, but this is not it.
Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at birth’.
kevinguyan.com/2026/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
This is horrific and will drive trans people away from seeking justice when they are the victim of a crime.
Heads up @maggiechapman.bsky.social
Far be it from me to tell police how to do their jobs (lol) but uh, won’t this make it harder to get information and solve shit?
(That presumes they care)
in the UK, "dignity and respect" is a phrase which means "as much cruelty as we can get away with"
Aside from being obnoxious & cruel, this will create bad data, especially for hate crimes.
A catastrophically bad decision, and Kevin explains why very clearly here. It is in fact likely to undermine data accuracy and undermine the ability to police effectively.
This annoyed me even more considering Scottish LGBTI Police Association have been around for so long, while their counterparts across the U.K. have been forgotten, so I expect a decent statement from them about this nonsense
The problem is simple: a gap now exists between what Police Scotland says it is recording about sex/gender and what people actually report about themselves.
📝 Read more here: kevinguyan.com/2026/03/18/p...
And, as is usually the case when institutions attempt to bring 'clarity' to the topic of sex and gender data, this change risks collecting data that is **less reliable** than before the undertaking of the review!
This replaces Police Scotland’s previous self-identification approach with a blanket policy applied across all data collection activities.
In practice, it prioritises ‘biological sex registered at birth’ in ways that exclude or misrecognise people’s lived experiences.
Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at birth’ 🔢
#data #gender #trans #police #Scotland
Kevin wearing a black puffer on the beach in St Andrews
A man wearing a cream jacket and holding a camera on the beach in St Andrews
Sunshine in St Andrews 🦀
An image of the Scottish Parliament debating chamber.
Last night, the Scottish Parliament approved a Scottish Statutory Instrument (SSI) to add ‘sex’ as a protected characteristic to Scottish hate crime law.
Sounds like a pretty good thing right? We strongly support all steps taken to address the violence and misogyny that women face.
