Queer Collections: LGBTQ+ Archives at Bishopsgate Institute

Tuesday 21st June, 12.30pm-1.30pm

Documenting the history of LGBTQ+ culture and politics is a monumental and imperative task. Bishopsgate Institute houses one of the largest collections of LGBTQ+ history in the UK, with extensive archives, printed titles and pamphlets, tracing queer history from the late 19^th century on.

Join us and the wonderful Stef Dickers (Special Collections and Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute, and curator of the recent exhibition at Barbican Out and About!) for a lunchtime talk about all things archives at Bishopsgate Institute. Stef will take us through some highlights of the archive and explore how they fit in the wider context of LGBTQ+ history.

Stef Dickers

Stef is the Special Collections and Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute and has been responsible for the development of the Institute's collections on the history of protest and activism, and LGBTQ+ Britain. He qualified as an archivist in 2001 and started at Bishopsgate in 2005.

Previous to this, Stef worked in the archives of the London School of Economics and Senate House Library. He will talk at extraordinary length about the collections whenever asked and is particularly passionate about LGBTQ+, fetish and activist archives.