Morgan M Page, Jana Funke & Senthorum Raj look at how we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures both real and fictional and what it means to have to "prove" your identity today in today's legal world. Shahidha Bari presents.
Morgan M Page is a writer, performance + video artist, and trans historian whose podcast is called One From The Vaults\nJana Funke teaches Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter\nSenthorum Raj teaches at Keele University School of Law.
In the Free Thinking archives you can find programmes Writing Love: Jonathan Dollimore, Sappho https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn522\nQueer Icons: Plato's Symposium https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcx1f\nCensorship and Sex Naomi Wolf on John Addington Symonds and Sarah Parker on Michael Field https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057k4\nHD and Bryher are discussed, alongside Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees in this episode Pioneering Women: academics and classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dj0g\nTom Smith explores the East German Military's fascination with its soldiers' sexuality https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00061m5\nWeimar and the Subversion of Cabaret Culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b7r7
Production team Caitlin Benedict & Alex Mansfield