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The entangled histories of LGBTQI+ lives in Britain

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Photograph of a laptop on a desk. On the screen is a video call with a man standing in his living room. He has short brown hair a moustache and is wearing a navy top. Behind him is a fire place, typewriter and fairy lights which are hanging on the wall over two black and white illustrations of birds. There is a red phone icon in the top left-hand corner of the screen and other video call icons. Around the laptop are notebooks, a pen a houseplant and a picture labelled "Moon Chart".
Exploring Research Seminar with David Griffiths, Photo: Kathleen Arundell. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Watch a recording of Dr David Griffiths as he explores the recent and contemporary LGBTQI+ histories through Wellcome Collection material, particularly those connected to intersex lives in Britain.

You will learn about Georgina Somerset, the first intersex woman known to marry in a Church of England church after re-registering her sex. She is also one of the first intersex women in Britain to try to tell her own story in the broadcast media.

Histories of intersex are necessarily entangled with histories of gender and sexuality. They are also often hidden, needing to be excavated from archives such as the Dave King Transgender Archive at Wellcome Collection.  

This talk considers how the LGBTQI+ acronym functions as an umbrella term, and some of the contemporary implications for inclusive politics and human rights.

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Dr David Griffiths

Dr David Griffiths has a PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory from the English Department at Cardiff University. He is currently writing a social and medical history on intersex in Britain from the early 20th century at the University of Surrey.