God's Own Country (2017) Yorkshire farmer meets Romanian migrant. It doesn't start well. Explores themes of queerness in rural areas, family, class and migration.

[Video For My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) South London in the Thatcher years. Punks & skins, racist violence, family tensions, hot sex, everyone has a secret..

What It Feels Like For A Girl (2025) TV series based on Paris Lees' memoirs. Small town working class queer teen finds sex, drugs and queer kinship in the 2000s.

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) One of Almodóvar's lesser known films. Working class family and their neighbours just trying to get by. Domestic violence, care work, internalised classism, underage s3x work, drug dealing and a little magic.

While preparing to edit the upcoming Lumpen 18 on queerness and class, I've been thinking about working class queer depictions in film and tv.
Can you think of any other media on working class queer life?
Bonus points if it's not US based or not focused on a romantic relationship..
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All over Europe, a small number of individuals are making big profits out of pride events, this is just the latest and most bizarre example of them all..
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"I have the body of a (bad) physical labourer, the heart of a (bad) hooker and the brain of an (unfortunately, exceptionally good) social worker.
I also have the will of a cockroach."
from 'Whatever, Whenever, Wherever' by No Nuance in Lumpen 17 - WORK
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A stylized, retro comic-style illustration shows a woman in a black trench coat, fishnet stockings, and high heels forcefully stepping on a uniformed police officer who is lying on the ground, shielding his head. The woman appears angry, with a clenched fist and stern expression. A speech bubble above her reads, “STICK YOUR NORDIC MODEL UP YOUR ASS!” The image has a bold, graphic, inked aesthetic with limited colors and strong contrast.

The Nordic Model is an Expansion of Police Powers. Anarchists Must Join Sex Workers to Fight Against it.

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We don’t feel at home in those places. And we probably don’t want to. Our place is at that anti-fascist demo fighting against the TERFs, at the sw breakfast, trans mutual aid groups, sharing with and caring for our own communities, as we can’t really trust the State and the mainstream charities.

It’s not at the big Pride parades which have stripped any connection they had with the spirit of 1969 to offer a sanitised, corporation and straight friendly day out, where having money and looking nice is more important than if you got bullied at school or are routinely harassed by cops.

Where can one exist as a working class queer? It’s definitely not in those all inclusive Gay™️ resort packages in Maspalomas, another case of mass tourism and gentrification which destroys housing prospects for the local population of Gran Canaria.

Prepare for a pretty charged call out with some oddly specific prompts and new submission guidelines to make everyone's lives easier.

(Image of queer activists at LGBT Pride in Dublin 2016. Attribution Aloyisius, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

We're busy bees here at the Class Work Project, and just as we released Lumpen issue 17 last week, now we're back with the call out for Lumpen 18: queer liberation is class struggle!
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Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the new issue on work 🛠

If you were thinking about contributing, the deadline is February 21st ⏰

As inspiration, we have published a flashback to Lumpen 13 with a testimonial on shit jobs by Some Migrant.

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Hey, Lumpen is now open for submissions 🙂
Theme: Work
800 minimum, 2,400 maximum words.
Deadline: 21st February 2026
The authors of published texts will be offered a small fee.
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A stack of magazines titled Lumpen: A Journal for Poor and Working Class Writers. The cover is a colourful cartoon illustration of a busy community-care scene with people interacting in a common room. Some characters are gardening, reading, or helping each other. Signs on the walls read ‘Welfare Not Warfare’ and ‘DWP Stop Killing Us.’ The issue information at the bottom right says: ‘Issue 16 — “Class and Care” — Autumn 2025 — £6.50.’

Lumpen 16 is now out!

This issue is dedicated to Class and Care and, as always, features some awesome writing!

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Ooh, this is very much my thing.

New issue of Lumpen is coming.
Texts by a very awesome assortment of writers.
Edited by our one and only Amy Todd.
Cover by @junk_comix
Theme: Class and Care.
Watch this space.

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Lumpen #16: Class and Care is underway and will be with our subscribers before the end of the year!

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Now out for all! 1st of a double podcast about the successful fight against the UK poll tax in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Covering the background, Thatcherism, introduction of the tax in Scotland, the beginnings of resistance, and the poll tax riot: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...

You've still got til the 1st October to submit your proposals for Lumpen #16: Class and Care. Plenty of time!

Lumpen #16: Class and Care. We’re exploring Class and Care in all its messy, knotty, vital, contradictory and highly skilled forms. We’re inviting you to interpret this however makes sense to you — through personal story, critique, history, imagination, grief, fury, love, or all of the above.

if this is something you would like to explore in your group and work, please get in touch. For more info: www.theclassworkproject.com/classworkshops