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Notes from the presentation:

Label the correct subject, who is it that you’re looking at? The subgroup within ‘Queer’ must be labelled
and clarified, otherwise it will seem like the aim has drifted and has lost specificity. Will be more focused
and clearer once specified.

Restructure the essay:

Introduction:

The essay will aim to examine the changes in the ‘encounters’ constructed by non-heterosexual men
throughout the 3 defined moments in recent history, 1960-1965, 1980-1985, 2009-2014. These time
periods define three opposing moments in British culture/legislation, in relation to homosexuality.

The subject of the study:

Sources:

1.) https://alektomich.com/Queer-Space - looking at an overview of queer spaces and running

through the changes experimented over the years. The report focuses on New York, looking at
the changes in its queer scene driven through sexual desire. The article expands on the way AIDS
fundamentally changed the cruising culture of young gay men. The fear of sex, spurred by the
pandemic, redefined the risks associated with casual sex drove a stillness into the community.
The freedom to explore sexuality and desire was clamped due to the fatal consequences of
contracting HIV. This can be used as an indication of the community’s reciprocal relationship to
gay encounters and the methods by which its members solicit sex/intimacy. These changes in
the safety associated with cruising switched
2.)

Comparing the changes from one ‘epoque’ to the next. How will the changes be examined and what are
the different faculties of the non-heterosexual male encounter. Looking at ‘Queer space’ as the
appropriation of a city, the reclamation of the ‘unobserved’ to protect and harbour queer activities. The
solicitation of queer intimacy has long been one of the main architects of the queer landscape. A kind of
gay urbanism has often thrived in the neglected corners of a city. As seen in photography of ALVIN
BALTHORP, documenting pier 45. These works demonstrated the reoccupation of the then abandoned
docking sites, as a commercial shipping lost its ability to compete with planes and trains.

The site became a cruising and sunbathing hotspot, attracting many gay men to its unsupervised and
unpoliced piers. The

Pre legalisation:

Sifting through the cultural expressions of queer identities whilst the law still ruled homosexuality as a
crime. These methods of research will span from literature of the time to media and personal accounts.
The methods of soliciting and performing sexual encounters, the implications it had on their sense of
‘community’ and there later understanding of the

1.) Joe Orton diaries: Looking

Post legalisation:

Post ‘digitalisation:

1.)