Justin Bengry presents his video history project on ‘Queer Pandemic’, tracking the experience of COVID-19 in association with Queer Britain.
Queer Pandemic is a video-based oral history project aimed at collecting stories about the experiences of LGBTQ+ people living across the UK during the era of COVID-19. Focusing on cross-generational dialogue, the project aims to explore:
- connections between the current pandemic and other crises experienced by LGBTQ+ people
- how queer people’s lives and communities have been shaped and strengthened by individual and shared responses to COVID-19 and previous crises
The project is particularly interested in understanding how people have been impacted by COVID-19, how they have responded, what they have lost and what they have gained. The project utilises remote video technology in gathering these oral histories, which will become part of the Virtually Queer collection of the Queer Britain Museum.
About the speaker
Justin Bengry
Justin Bengry is the Director of the Centre for Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he also convenes the world's first MA in Queer History. He is a cultural historian specialising in queer history with particular interests in capitalism, local history, family history and policy surrounding the so-called 'gay pardon'. He is currently part of an international partnership researching LGBTQ+ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Justin is completing a book on the history of the pink pound.
Event location
This event can be attended online via zoom or in person at the following location:
309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW
